8 papers
Beyond Cloud-9: The case for discovering more HI-rich failed halos
Jorge Moreno, Coral Wheeler, Francisco J. Mercado +8
HI-rich starless halos, should they exist, hold great promise for elucidating dark matter halo structure. Yet realizing this potential demands reliable theoretical predictions for…
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,…
Enhanced Multiphase Circumgalactic Medium and Gas Cycling in Galaxy Mergers
Maolan Yang, Suoqing Ji, Robert Feldmann +9
We investigate the impact of galaxy mergers on the circumgalactic medium (CGM) using the FIREbox cosmological hydrodynamic simulation. By comparing matched samples of merging and i…
Igniting galaxy formation in the post-reionization universe
Jorge Moreno, Coral Wheeler, Francisco J. Mercado +9
It is widely believed that the ultraviolet background produced during the epoch of reionization conspires against the formation of low-mass galaxies. Indeed, this mechanism is ofte…
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…
Disks no more: the morphology of low-mass simulated galaxies in FIREbox
José A. Benavides, Laura V. Sales, Andrew Wetzel +9
We study the morphology of hundreds of simulated central galaxies in the stellar mass range \msun\, from the FIREbox cosmological volume. We demons…