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Igniting galaxy formation in the post-reionization universe
Jorge Moreno, Coral Wheeler, Francisco J. Mercado +9
It is widely believed that the ultraviolet background produced during the epoch of reionization conspires against the formation of low-mass galaxies. Indeed, this mechanism is ofte…
The quenched fraction of satellites around simulated Milky Way-mass galaxies
Francisco J. Mercado, Devontae C. Baxter, M. Katy Rodriguez Wimberly +7
We compare satellite quenched fractions across three cosmological simulation suites (FIREbox, the FIRE-2 zoom-ins, and IllustrisTNG50) and observational datasets from SAGA, ELVES,…
Disks no more: the morphology of low-mass simulated galaxies in FIREbox
José A. Benavides, Laura V. Sales, Andrew Wetzel +9
We study the morphology of hundreds of simulated central galaxies in the stellar mass range \msun\, from the FIREbox cosmological volume. We demons…
How invisible stellar halos bias our understanding of ultra-faint galaxies
Coral Wheeler, Jorge Moreno, M. Katy Rodriguez Wimberly +6
We explore how a realistic surface brightness detection limit of mag arcsec for stars at the edges of ultra-faint galaxies affects our ability to infer th…
Pickles on FIRE: The 3D Shape Evolution of Simulated Milky Way-Mass Galaxies
Luke Y. Xia, Courtney Klein, Jenny D. Wang +6
We use reduced-mass eigentensors to quantify the 3D ellipsoidal shape evolution of thirteen Milky Way-mass galaxies simulated using zoom simulations with FIRE-2 physics; all but on…
The Shape of FIREbox Galaxies and a Potential Tension with Low-mass Disks
Courtney Klein, Jenny D. Wang, Luke Xia +9
We study the intrinsic and observable shapes of approximately 700 star-forming galaxies with stellar masses of M from the FIREbox simulation at . We c…
Effects of galactic environment on size and dark matter content in low-mass galaxies
Francisco J. Mercado, Jorge Moreno, Robert Feldmann +8
We utilize the cosmological volume simulation, FIREbox, to investigate how a galaxy's environment influences its size and dark matter content. Our study focuses on approximately 1,…