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Old Disks Die Hard: How Does AGN Feedback Suppress Disk Formation in Milky Way Mass Galaxies?
Patricia Fofie, James S. Bullock, Sarah Wellons +3
The connection between a galaxy's visual shape and its star formation rate is one of the oldest established trends in galaxy evolution, yet the origin of this trend remains unsettl…
Resolving galaxy formation in the early Universe with BonFIRE and CampFIRE
Jenna Samuel, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Robert Feldmann +16
The abundance and rapid growth of galaxies at cosmic dawn revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope challenges models of galaxy formation, motivating new simulations to uncover th…
From protogalaxy through thick and thin: Why did the Milky Way evolve in three kinematic phases?
Olti Myrtaj, James S. Bullock, Michael Boylan-Kolchin +9
APOGEE and Gaia data suggest the Milky Way's kinematic structure evolved through three distinct phases: a disordered protogalaxy, which ``spun up'' into a thick stellar disk, and t…
Negative energies and the breakdown of bulk geometry
John Preskill, Mykhaylo Usatyuk, Shreya Vardhan
One central question in quantum gravity is to understand how and why predictions from semiclassical gravity can break down in regimes with low spacetime curvature. One diagnostic o…
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,…
Second public data release of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation
Andrew Wetzel, Jenna Samuel, Pratik J. Gandhi +34
We describe the second data release (DR2) of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation, from the Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) project, available…
Decoding the Galactic Twirl: The Downfall of Milky Way-mass Galaxies Rotation Curves in the FIRE Simulations
Xiaowei Ou, Lina Necib, Andrew Wetzel +3
Recent measurements of the Milky Way rotation curve found a sharp decline at around - kpc from the center of the Galaxy, suggesting that the Galactic dark matter halo is mu…
Trial by FIRE: Probing the dark matter density profile of dwarf galaxies with GraphNPE
Tri Nguyen, Justin Read, Lina Necib +4
The Dark Matter (DM) distribution in dwarf galaxies provides crucial insights into both structure formation and the particle nature of DM. GraphNPE (Graph Neural Posterior Estimato…
Theoretical Predictions for the Inner Dark Matter Distribution in the Milky Way Informed by Simulations
Abdelaziz Hussein, Lina Necib, Manoj Kaplinghat +5
We build a theoretical range for the Milky Way's (MW) inner dark matter (DM) distribution informed by the FIRE-2, Auriga, VINTERGATAN-GM, and TNG50 simulation suites assuming the c…