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most citedFeedback reshapes the baryon distribution within haloes, in halo outskirts, and beyond: the closure radius from dwarfs to massive clusters

85 citations · 525 across the 29 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The Deep Learning Halo Definer: A Multimodal Framework for Halo Mass and Gas Fraction Inference on Galaxy Groups and Clusters

Caleb Ogle, Kalvyn N. Poncelet Adams, Benjamin D. Oppenheimer +5

Accurately inferring dark matter halo properties like the total halo mass (M_{halo}) and gas fractions (f_{gas}) remains particularly challenging at group scales, where low member…

astro-ph.GA2026

How galaxies acquire their stellar mass at high redshift: High star formation efficiencies and the relative roles of dust and initial mass function

Hao Fu, Francesco Shankar, Fabio Fontanot +9

JWST has measured an unprecedented abundance of galaxies above , whose formation and evolution are still difficult to reconcile within traditional galaxy evolution mo…

astro-ph.GA2026

Environmental Quenching of High-Redshift Galaxies: Interpreting JWST Observations with Simulations

Aleyna Döven, Mohammadreza Ayromlou, Cristiano Porciani

Recent observations of the high-redshift Universe, particularly with JWST, have revealed a population of quenched galaxies that challenges current galaxy formation models, which sy…

astro-ph.GA2025

The role of black hole feedback on galaxy star formation and the degeneracy with halo quenching

Hao Fu, Francesco Shankar, Feng Yuan +9

The interplay between the accretion of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and the stellar mass growth of the host galaxies is still a matter of hot debate. The accretion of the SMBHs…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Extreme AGN feedback in the fossil galaxy group SDSSTG 4436

D. Eckert, F. Gastaldello, L. Lovisari +20

Supermassive black hole feedback is the currently favoured mechanism to regulate the star formation rate of galaxies and prevent the formation of ultra-massive galaxies ($M_\star>1…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Jellyfish galaxies with the IllustrisTNG simulations -- Supermassive black hole activity in dense environments with ram-pressure stripped satellites

Shalini Kurinchi-Vendhan, Eric Rohr, Annalisa Pillepich +3

Jellyfish galaxies are extreme examples of how galaxies can transform due to dense environmental effects. These satellite galaxies suffer from ram-pressure stripping, leading to th…

astro-ph.GA2025

Cross-correlations between X-ray clusters and the general galaxy population

Johan Comparat, Juan Macias-Perez, Céline Combet +5

This study presents highly precise measurements of the cross-correlation between volume-limited galaxy samples from the DESI legacy survey catalogue and X-ray selected galaxy clust…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Shedding light on the star formation rate-halo accretion rate connection and halo quenching mechanism via DECODE, the Discrete statistical sEmi-empiriCal mODEl

Hao Fu, Lumen Boco, Francesco Shankar +9

Aims: The relative roles of the physical mechanisms involved in quenching galaxy star formation are still unclear. We tackle this fundamental problem with our cosmological semi-emp…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The abundance and origin of cool gas in galaxy clusters in the TNG-Cluster simulation

Milan Staffehl, Dylan Nelson, Mohammadreza Ayromlou +2

In addition to the hot intracluster medium, massive galaxy clusters host complex, multi-phase gaseous halos. In this work, we quantify the abundance, spatial distribution, and orig…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

ERGO-ML: A continuous organization of the X-ray galaxy cluster population in TNG-Cluster with contrastive learning

Urmila Chadayammuri, Lukas Eisert, Annalisa Pillepich +3

The physical properties of the intracluster medium (ICM) reflect signatures of the underlying gravitational potential, mergers and strong interactions with other halos and satellit…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 11 cited

The cooler past of the intracluster medium in TNG-Cluster

Eric Rohr, Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson +3

The intracluster medium (ICM) today is comprised largely of hot gas with clouds of cooler gas of unknown origin and lifespan. We analyze the evolution of cool gas (temperatures $\l…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 9 cited

Probing galaxy evolution from to through galaxy scaling relations in three L-Galaxies flavours

Akash Vani, Mohammadreza Ayromlou, Guinevere Kauffmann +1

We present a comprehensive examination of the three latest versions of the L-Galaxies semi-analytic galaxy formation model, focusing on the evolution of galaxy properties across a…

astro-ph.GA2024

Unveiling the (in)consistencies among the galaxy stellar mass function, star formation histories, satellite abundances and intracluster light from a semi-empirical perspective

Hao Fu, Francesco Shankar, Mohammadreza Ayromlou +16

In a hierarchical, dark matter-dominated Universe, stellar mass functions (SMFs), galaxy merger rates, star formation histories (SFHs), satellite abundances, and intracluster light…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 23 cited

An Atlas of Gas Motions in the TNG-Cluster Simulation: from Cluster Cores to the Outskirts

Mohammadreza Ayromlou, Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich +6

Galaxy clusters are unique laboratories for studying astrophysical processes and their impact on gas kinematics. Despite their importance, the full complexity of gas motion within…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 9 cited

Introducing the TNG-Cluster Simulation: overview and physical properties of the gaseous intracluster medium

Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich, Mohammadreza Ayromlou +4

We introduce the new TNG-Cluster project, an addition to the IllustrisTNG suite of cosmological magnetohydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation. Our objective is to significa…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 24 cited

The hot circumgalactic media of massive cluster satellites in the TNG-Cluster simulation: existence and detectability

Eric Rohr, Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson +2

The most massive galaxy clusters in the Universe host hundreds of massive satellite galaxies~$\mstar\sim10^{10-12.5} msun$, but it is unclear if these satellites are able to retain…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 30 cited

X-ray-inferred kinematics of the core ICM in Perseus-like clusters: Insights from the TNG-Cluster simulation

Nhut Truong, Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson +4

The intracluster medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters encodes the impact of the physical processes that shape these massive halos, including feedback from central supermassive black hol…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 3 cited

Exploring chemical enrichment of the intracluster medium with the Line Emission Mapper

François Mernier, Yuanyuan Su, Maxim Markevitch +27

Synthesized in the cores of stars and supernovae, most metals disperse over cosmic scales and are ultimately deposited well outside the gravitational potential of their host galaxi…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 7 cited

MUSE-ALMA Haloes IX: Morphologies and Stellar Properties of Gas-rich Galaxies

Arjun Karki, Varsha P. Kulkarni, Simon Weng +15

Understanding how galaxies interact with the circumgalactic medium (CGM) requires determining how galaxies morphological and stellar properties correlate with their CGM properties.…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 12 cited

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) XV. The Halpha luminosity function of the Virgo cluster

A. Boselli, M. Fossati, P. Cote +17

We use a complete set of deep narrow-band imaging data for 384 galaxies gathered during the VESTIGE survey to derive the first Halpha luminosity function (LF) of the Virgo cluster…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 46 cited

Jellyfish galaxies with the IllustrisTNG simulations -- When, where, and for how long does ram pressure stripping of cold gas occur?

Eric Rohr, Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson +3

Jellyfish galaxies are prototypical examples of satellite galaxies undergoing strong ram pressure stripping (RPS). We analyze the evolution of 512 unique, first-infalling jellyfish…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 85 cited

Feedback reshapes the baryon distribution within haloes, in halo outskirts, and beyond: the closure radius from dwarfs to massive clusters

Mohammadreza Ayromlou, Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich

We explore three sets of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, IllustrisTNG, EAGLE, and SIMBA, to investigate the physical processes impacting the distribution of baryons in and…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 46 cited

Line Emission Mapper (LEM): Probing the physics of cosmic ecosystems

Ralph Kraft, Maxim Markevitch, Caroline Kilbourne +107

The Line Emission Mapper (LEM) is an X-ray Probe for the 2030s that will answer the outstanding questions of the Universe's structure formation. It will also provide transformative…

astro-ph.CO2022

Testing the key role of the stellar mass-halo mass relation in galaxy merger rates and morphologies via DECODE, a novel Discrete statistical sEmi-empiriCal mODEl

Hao Fu, Francesco Shankar, Mohammadreza Ayromlou +19

The relative roles of mergers and star formation in regulating galaxy growth are still a matter of intense debate. We here present our DECODE, a new Discrete statistical sEmi-empir…