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20132026
most citedCharacterizing Diffused Stellar Light in simulated galaxy clusters

117 citations · 152 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Disentangling the assembly of the central and diffuse stellar components in galaxy clusters through dynamical friction and tidal stripping

Frazer R. Pearce, Steven P. Bamford, Garreth Martin +7

In galaxy clusters, it is common to conceptually distinguish the central, brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) from the more diffuse intracluster light (ICL). So far, however, this disti…

astro-ph.GA2026

ELUCID. IX. Recovering the Substructures and History of the Coma Cluster

Xiong Luo, Huiyuan Wang, Weiguang Cui +7

We employ constrained hydrodynamic simulations of the Coma galaxy cluster from the ELUCID project to study its substructures and assembly history. Our simulations accurately reprod…

astro-ph.GA2026

Black Hole-Galaxy Correlations in Cluster Zoomed-in Simulations: GIZMO-SIMBA and TNG-Cluster

Hangxin Pu, Antonios Katsianis, Weiguang Cui +8

We investigate the co-evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and central galaxies in massive clusters using the GIZMO-SIMBA and TNG-Cluster zoom-in simulations at . W…

astro-ph.GA2026

The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. IX - Part 2: Effects of a Major Galaxy Merger on the Stellar Morphology of a Milky Way-mass Galaxy Progenitor

Thinh Huu Nguyen, Kirk S. S. Barrow, Minyong Jung +23

Galaxy mergers, with their high sensitivity to initial conditions, provide a valuable setting for comparative studies of galaxy simulation codes. Following our first paper focusing…

astro-ph.GA2026

The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. IX - Part 1: Effects of a Major Galaxy Merger on Star Formation of a Milky Way-mass Galaxy Progenitor

Thinh Huu Nguyen, Kirk S. S. Barrow, Minyong Jung +23

Given their highly nonlinear dynamics and sensitivity to initial conditions, galaxy mergers are a compelling area to conduct a simulation code comparison. We perform a comparative…

astro-ph.CO2026

Here, There and Everywhere: How AGN jets affect galaxy cluster environments

Isaac Rosenberg, Martine Lokken, Renée Hložek +3

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback via black hole-driven jets and winds plays a key role in redistributing matter across megaparsec scales. However, the implementation of jet fe…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Consistent Comparison of Intracluster Light Assembly in Simulations I. Redshift Evolution and Progenitor Galaxies

Harley J. Brown, Garreth Martin, Frazer R. Pearce +5

The tidal stripping of satellite galaxies and the stellar detritus ejected during galaxy mergers builds up a diffuse stellar component in galaxy clusters known as the intracluster…

astro-ph.GA2026

Anisotropy of Satellite Galaxies-I: Contrasting Correlations with Central Galaxy, Host Halo, and Large-Scale Filament Structures

Zhuoming Zhang, Weiguang Cui, Yun Chen +2

Using the SIMBA, EAGLE, and IllustrisTNG-100 galaxy formation simulations, we examine the anisotropy of the satellite distribution and its dependencies on central galaxies, host ha…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Investigating the residuals in the relation using the SIMBA cosmological simulation

Wenlin Ma, Weiguang Cui, Romeel Davé +2

We study the scaling relation between the black hole and stellar mass (), diagnosing the residual () in this relation to understand the…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Gamma Analytical Modeling Evolution (GAME) I: The physical implications of deriving the stellar mass functions from z=0 to z=8

Antonios Katsianis, Qingshan Wang, Xiaohu Yang +13

The growth model is an effective parameterization employed across various scientific disciplines and scales to depict growth. It has been demonstrated that the cosmic star form…

astro-ph.CO2025

Predicting Halo Formation Time Using Machine Learning

Atulit Srivastava, Weiguang Cui, Daniel de Andres +3

Context:Halo formation time, which quantifies the mass assembly history of dark-matter halos, directly impacts galaxy properties and evolution. Although not directly observable, it…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

The Three Hundred: Gas Properties Outside of Galaxy Cluster with the WHIM Contribution and Detection

Renjie Li, Weiguang Cui, Ang Liu +4

We investigate the physical properties and detectability of warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) gas with temperatures in the range K around galaxy clusters using simu…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

The Jiutian simulations for the CSST extra-galactic surveys

Jiaxin Han, Ming Li, Wenkang Jiang +23

We provide an overview of the Jiutian simulations, a hybrid simulation suite for the China Space Survey Telescope (CSST) extragalactic surveys. It consists of four complementary mo…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Core to Cosmic Edge: SIMBA-C's New Take on Abundance Profiles in the Intragroup Medium at z = 0

Aviv Padawer-Blatt, Zhiwei Shao, Renier T. Hough +9

We employ the SIMBA-C cosmological simulation to study the impact of its upgraded chemical enrichment model (Chem5) on the distribution of metals in the intragroup medium (IGrM). W…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 7 cited

Disparate Effects of Circumgalactic Medium Angular Momentum in IllustrisTNG and SIMBA

Kexin Liu, Hong Guo, Sen Wang +4

In this study, we examine the role of circumgalactic medium (CGM) angular momentum () on star formation in galaxies, whose influence is currently not well understood.…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 8 cited

Hyenas: X-ray Bubbles and Cavities in the Intra-Group Medium

Fred J. Jennings, Arif Babul, Romeel Dave +2

We investigate the role of the Simba feedback model on the structure of the Intra-Group Medium (IGrM) in the new Hyenas suite of cutting-edge cosmological zoom-in simulations. Usin…

astro-ph.CO2024

The HYENAS project: a prediction for the X-ray undetected galaxy groups

Weiguang Cui, Fred Jennings, Romeel Dave +2

Galaxy groups contain the majority of bound mass with a significant portion of baryons due to the combination of halo mass and abundance (Cui 2024). Hence they serve as a crucial m…

astro-ph.GA2024

\texttt{Simba}-\texttt{C}: the evolution of the thermal and chemical properties in the intragroup medium

Renier T. Hough, Zhiwei Shao, Weiguang Cui +5

The newly updated \texttt{GIZMO} and \texttt{Simba} based simulation, \texttt{Simba-C}, with its new stellar feedback, chemical enrichment, and recalibrated AGN feedback, allows fo…

astro-ph.GA2024

Populating Galaxies Into Halos Via Machine Learning on the Simba Simulation

Pratyush Kumar Das, Romeel Davé, Weiguang Cui

We present a machine-learning framework, Machine Inferred Galaxy (MIG), to populate dark-matter haloes with galaxies in N-body simulations. MIG predicts stellar mass (), st…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Effect of AGN Feedback on the Lyman-α Forest Signature of Galaxy Protoclusters at z~2.3

Chenze Dong, Khee-Gan Lee, Romeel Davé +2

The intergalactic medium (IGM) in the vicinity of galaxy protoclusters are interesting testbeds to study complex baryonic effects such as gravitational shocks and feedback. Here, w…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 11 cited

The Nature and Evolution of Early Massive Quenched Galaxies in the Simba-C Simulation

Jakub Szpila, Romeel Davé, Douglas Rennehan +2

We examine the nature, origin, and fate of early () massive () quenched galaxies (EQGs) in a new run of the Simba-C galaxy…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 117 cited

Characterizing Diffused Stellar Light in simulated galaxy clusters

Weiguang Cui, G. Murante, P. Monaco +6

[Abridged] In this paper, we carry out a detailed analysis of the performance of two different methods to identify the diffuse stellar light in cosmological hydrodynamical simulati…