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Simulating galaxies in the reionization era with FIRE-2: morphologies and sizes
Xiangcheng Ma, Philip F. Hopkins, Michael Boylan-Kolchin +7
We study the morphologies and sizes of galaxies at z>5 using high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations from the Feedback In Realistic Environments project. The galaxies show…
Massive quenched galaxies at z~0.7 retain large molecular gas reservoirs
Katherine A. Suess, Rachel Bezanson, Justin S. Spilker +5
The physical mechanisms that quench star formation, turning blue star-forming galaxies into red quiescent galaxies, remain unclear. In this Letter, we investigate the role of gas s…
Testing the Recovery of Intrinsic Galaxy Sizes and Masses of z~2 Massive Galaxies Using Cosmological Simulations
Sedona H. Price, Mariska Kriek, Robert Feldmann +5
Accurate measurements of galaxy masses and sizes are key to tracing galaxy evolution over time. Cosmological zoom-in simulations provide an ideal test bed for assessing the recover…
Black Holes on FIRE: Stellar Feedback Limits Early Feeding of Galactic Nuclei
Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, Eliot Quataert +5
We introduce massive black holes (BHs) in the Feedback In Realistic Environments project and perform high-resolution cosmological hydrodynamic simulations of quasar-mass halos ($M_…
Simulating galaxies in the reionization era with FIRE-2: galaxy scaling relations, stellar mass functions, and luminosity functions
Xiangcheng Ma, Philip F. Hopkins, Shea Garrison-Kimmel +6
We present a suite of cosmological zoom-in simulations at z>5 from the Feedback In Realistic Environments project, spanning a halo mass range M_halo~10^8-10^12 M_sun at z=5. We pre…
Are star formation rates of galaxies bimodal?
Robert Feldmann
Star formation rate (SFR) distributions of galaxies are often assumed to be bimodal with modes corresponding to star-forming and quiescent galaxies, respectively. Both classes of g…
On the deuterium abundance and the importance of stellar mass loss in the interstellar and intergalactic medium
Freeke van de Voort, Eliot Quataert, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère +5
We quantify the gas-phase abundance of deuterium and fractional contribution of stellar mass loss to the gas in cosmological zoom-in simulations from the Feedback In Realistic Envi…
FIRE-2 Simulations: Physics versus Numerics in Galaxy Formation
Philip F Hopkins, Andrew Wetzel, Dusan Keres +25
The Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) project explores feedback in cosmological galaxy formation simulations. Previous FIRE simulations used an identical source code (FIRE-…
What FIREs Up Star Formation: the Emergence of the Kennicutt-Schmidt Law from Feedback
Matthew E. Orr, Christopher C. Hayward, Philip Hopkins +6
We present an analysis of the global and spatially-resolved Kennicutt-Schmidt (KS) star formation relation in the FIRE (Feedback In Realistic Environments) suite of cosmological si…