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Mergers may not be the main channel for galaxy stellar mass growth at redshift : Predictions from cosmological hierarchical models and simulations
Hao Fu, Mohammadreza Ayromlou, Francesco Shankar +13
Mergers are a crucial channel of galaxy growth, but their role relative to star formation remains uncertain at high redshift. Here we investigate merger rates and merger-driven ste…
Forged in Quenching: Morphological Transformation across Star-forming and Quiescent Galaxies in EAGLE
Kai Wang, Carlton Baugh, Sownak Bose +15
The connection between morphology and quenching in central galaxies is well established, but its physical origin remains widely debated. We address this by tracing the main progeni…
How galaxies acquire their stellar mass at high redshift: High star formation efficiencies and the relative roles of dust and initial mass function
Hao Fu, Francesco Shankar, Fabio Fontanot +9
JWST has measured an unprecedented abundance of galaxies above , whose formation and evolution are still difficult to reconcile within traditional galaxy evolution mo…
Too many or too massive? Investigating the high- demography of active SMBHs from JWST
Daniel Roberts, Francesco Shankar, Vieri Cammelli +12
Recent JWST observations have unveiled a numerous population of low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGN) at , with space densities roughly an order of magnitude above p…
The role of black hole feedback on galaxy star formation and the degeneracy with halo quenching
Hao Fu, Francesco Shankar, Feng Yuan +9
The interplay between the accretion of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and the stellar mass growth of the host galaxies is still a matter of hot debate. The accretion of the SMBHs…
Characterizing the roles of transitory obscured phases and inner torus in shaping the fractions of obscured AGN at cosmic noon
Alba V. Alonso-Tetilla, Francesco Shankar, Fabio Fontanot +11
The origin of obscuration in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is still a matter of contention. It is unclear whether obscured AGN are primarily due to line-of-sight effects, a transito…
Semi-empirical Framework of Supermassive Black Hole Evolution: Highlighting a possible tension between Demographics and Gravitational Wave Background
Andrea Lapi, Francesco Shankar, Michele Bosi +4
The evolution of the supermassive Black Hole (BH) population across cosmic times remains a central unresolved issue in modern astrophysics, due to the many noticeable uncertainties…
Probing the co-evolution of SMBHs and their hosts from scaling relations pairwise residuals: dominance of stellar velocity dispersion and host halo mass
Francesco Shankar, Mariangela Bernardi, Daniel Roberts +17
The correlations between Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies still defy our understanding from both the observational and theoretical perspectives. Here we per…
Shedding light on the star formation rate-halo accretion rate connection and halo quenching mechanism via DECODE, the Discrete statistical sEmi-empiriCal mODEl
Hao Fu, Lumen Boco, Francesco Shankar +9
Aims: The relative roles of the physical mechanisms involved in quenching galaxy star formation are still unclear. We tackle this fundamental problem with our cosmological semi-emp…
Unveiling the (in)consistencies among the galaxy stellar mass function, star formation histories, satellite abundances and intracluster light from a semi-empirical perspective
Hao Fu, Francesco Shankar, Mohammadreza Ayromlou +16
In a hierarchical, dark matter-dominated Universe, stellar mass functions (SMFs), galaxy merger rates, star formation histories (SFHs), satellite abundances, and intracluster light…
Scrutinising evidence for the triggering of Active Galactic Nuclei in the outskirts of massive galaxy clusters at
Iván Muñoz Rodríguez, Antonis Georgakakis, Francesco Shankar +6
Environmental effects are believed to play an important yet poorly understood role in triggering accretion events onto the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) of galaxies (Active Gala…