3 papers
astro-ph.GA2026
Galaxy Mergers in UNIONS -- II: Predicting Timescales in the Post-Merger Regime
Leonardo Ferreira, Sara L. Ellison, David R. Patton +3
Galaxy mergers are critical events that influence galaxy evolution by driving processes such as enhanced star formation, quenching, and active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity. Howe…
astro-ph.GA2025
Interacting galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulations - IX: Mini mergers trigger AGN in cosmological simulations
Shoshannah Byrne-Mamahit, Sara L. Ellison, David R. Patton +3
Galaxy mergers are transformative events that can cause gaseous inflows capable of triggering active galactic nuclei (AGN). Previous studies of AGN in simulations have mainly focus…
astro-ph.GA2025
Interacting galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulations -- VIII: Pericentric star formation rate enhancements are driven both by increased fuelling and efficiency
Lawrence Faria, David R. Patton, Stéphane Courteau +2
Using the TNG100-1 cosmological simulations, we explore how galaxy properties, such as specific star formation rate (), gas fraction ($\rm f_{gas} \,= \, M_{\rm H…