3 papers
astro-ph.GA2026
Radial redistribution of stellar orbits in FIRE simulations of Milky-Way-mass galaxies
Matthew A. Bellardini, Fiona McCluskey, Andrew Wetzel +3
A central question in galactic dynamics and galactic archeology is: how much do the orbits of stars redistribute (migrate) after birth? We use the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simul…
astro-ph.GA2021
3-D gas-phase elemental abundances across the formation histories of Milky Way-mass galaxies in the FIRE simulations: initial conditions for chemical tagging
Matthew A. Bellardini, Andrew Wetzel, Sarah R. Loebman +3
We use FIRE-2 simulations to examine 3-D variations of gas-phase elemental abundances of [O/H], [Fe/H], and [N/H] in 11 Milky Way (MW) and M31-mass galaxies across their formation…
astro-ph.GA2019
Live Fast, Die Young: GMC lifetimes in the FIRE cosmological simulations of Milky Way-mass galaxies
Samantha M. Benincasa, Sarah R. Loebman, Andrew Wetzel +6
We present the first measurement of the lifetimes of Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) in cosmological simulations at , using the Latte suite of FIRE-2 simulations of Milky Way-…