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most citedGalactic winds driven by cosmic-ray streaming

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astro-ph.GA2026

Towards robust simulations of the galactic dynamo: a cross-code comparison between Eulerian and Lagrangian schemes

Mark Ivan Ugalino, Benedikt Diemer, Vadim A. Semenov +8

Galactic magnetic fields are thought to be seeded by microscopic processes such as the Biermann battery and are primarily amplified to observed microgauss strengths by dynamo proce…

astro-ph.IM2026

Divergence-free magnetohydrodynamics on a moving mesh

Volker Springel, Alexander C. Mayer, Rüdiger Pakmor

Magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the Universe and play an important role in many astrophysical processes, such as star formation and the evolution of galaxies. Hydrodynamical simu…

astro-ph.IM2026

The OpenGadget3 Code for Cosmological Simulations

Klaus Dolag, Geray S. Karademir, Luca Tornatore +28

We present the public release of OpenGadget3 (OG3), a substantially extended and re-organised version of the widely used Gadget-2/3 family of cosmological simulation codes. Since G…

astro-ph.GA2026

The VariableTNG project: mass-dependent regulation of galaxy morphology by baryonic feedback

Yikai Liu, Hong Guo, Volker Springel +3

Galaxy morphology is shaped by both assembly history and baryonic processes, but their relative roles remain uncertain. We use the VariableTNG (VTNG) simulation suite to investigat…

astro-ph.GA2026

The VariableTNG project: how baryonic mechanisms shape galaxy properties

Kexin Liu, Hong Guo, Luis C. Ho +3

We use 50 Sobol-sampled VariableTNG simulations, varying eight subgrid parameters at fixed cosmology and initial conditions, to determine which baryonic processes regulate galaxies…

astro-ph.GA2026

Evaluating the flexibility of the MillenniumTNG galaxy formation model with multi-zoom re-simulations

Francisco Maion, Raul E. Angulo, Volker Springel +2

In this study we introduce a new simulation campaign designed to understand how parameters that control star-formation and AGN feedback processes in cosmological hydrodynamical sim…

astro-ph.IM2026

A comparison of numerical schemes for driven subsonic MHD turbulence

Rüdiger Pakmor, Thomas Guillet, Rebekka Bieri +3

Turbulence is ubiquitous in astrophysical systems, and since most cosmic gas is ionised, it supports magnetic fields. In turbulent environments, these fields are rapidly amplified…

astro-ph.CO2026

The dark matter halo mass function in the cosmology at all times and over all scales -- from planetary to galaxy cluster masses

Haonan Zheng, Sownak Bose, Carlos S. Frenk +7

The dark matter halo mass function is one of the most fundamental predictions of structure formation theory and cosmological simulations. We present the full halo mass function in…

astro-ph.GA2026

The PICO-Cluster Project: presenting the galaxy cluster sample and studying magnetic field growth, Faraday rotation and Braginskii heating

Thomas Berlok, Christoph Pfrommer, Ewald Puchwein +9

Galaxy clusters constitute a microcosm of the Universe and offer a unique laboratory for studying plasma astrophysics, encompassing processes such as cosmic-ray acceleration and no…

astro-ph.GA2026

X-ray emission maps and scaling relations in IllustrisTNG and MillenniumTNG: Differences between cluster and group regimes

Franklin Aldás, Facundo A. Gómez, Volker Springel +3

X-ray observations are a primary probe of the intracluster medium, widely used to infer galaxy cluster masses and scaling relations. We present and validate a pipeline to generate…

astro-ph.CO2026

Learning the Universe: Constrained simulations of the Coma galaxy cluster -- I. Radial X-ray and Compton-y signatures

Ulrich P. Steinwandel, Stuart McAlpine, Richard Stiskalek +7

We present a suite of 50 high-fidelity simulations of Coma cluster analogues constructed from BORG/MANTICORE constrained initial conditions and evolved with the IllustrisTNG galaxy…

astro-ph.GA2026

Learning the Universe with PRFM-vol: Introducing a new subgrid model for star formation in cosmological simulations

Jan D. Burger, Volker Springel, Eve C. Ostriker +7

We introduce PRFM-vol, a new subgrid model for star formation in cosmological simulations that aims to increase the physical realism of cosmological simulations by leveraging resul…

astro-ph.CO2026

The Lumina Project: CMB Optical Depth Fluctuations from Patchy Reionization

Aaron Smith, Oliver Zier, Rahul Kannan +8

Patchy reionization couples the ionized-bubble morphology to the underlying density field, making the CMB Thomson optical depth sensitive to both the global ionization history and…

astro-ph.CO2026

Introducing the Lumina project: large-volume radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of the epochs of hydrogen and helium reionization

Oliver Zier, Aaron Smith, Xuejian Shen +8

Understanding how galaxies and active galactic nuclei (AGN) jointly drive the reionization of the intergalactic medium (IGM) across cosmic time remains a major challenge in cosmolo…

astro-ph.GA2026

The evolution of the baryonic content and mass profiles of satellite galaxies in the MTNG simulations

Sergio Contreras, Raul E. Angulo, Giovanni Aricò +5

Empirical models often rely on key relations from the galaxy--halo connection to construct mock galaxy catalogues. These relations typically describe central galaxies more accurate…

astro-ph.GA2026

Revisiting radio synchrotron diagnostics in star-forming galaxies

Maria Werhahn, Christoph Pfrommer, Philipp Girichidis +7

Radio continuum observations are widely used to study cosmic ray (CR) electron populations and transport processes in star-forming galaxies, but their interpretation relies on seve…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

FEASTS Compared with Simulations: Abnormally Irregular and Extended HI Morphologies at a Column Density of in TNG50 and Auriga

Xuchen Lin, Jing Wang, Guinevere Kauffmann +2

With new atomic-hydrogen (HI) observations of FAST Extended Atlas of Selected Targets Survey (FEASTS), we present the first statistical comparison of HI morphology between observat…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

The effect of baryons on the positions and velocities of satellite galaxies in the MTNG simulation

Sergio Contreras, Raul E. Angulo, Sownak Bose +5

Mock galaxy catalogues are often constructed from dark-matter-only simulations based on the galaxy-halo connection. Although modern mocks can reproduce galaxy clustering to some ex…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

Magnetic field generation in mergers of massive main-sequence stars

Sebastian T. Ohlmann, Fabian R. N. Schneider, Friedrich K. Roepke +3

Magnetic fields are found in many astrophysical objects, ranging from galaxy clusters to the interstellar medium of galaxies and neutron stars. Strong surface magnetic fields are a…

astro-ph.SR2025

Formation of protostars and the launching of stellar core outflows with moving-mesh radiation non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics

Alexander C. Mayer, Rüdiger Pakmor, Thorsten Naab +5

We present an implementation of radiative transfer with flux-limited diffusion (FLD) for the moving-mesh code {\small AREPO} and use the method in a physical model for the formatio…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Modeling gravitational wave sources in the MillenniumTNG simulations

Federico Marinacci, Marco Baldi, Giuliano Iorio +5

(Edited) We introduce a flexible framework for building gravitational wave (GW) event catalogs in hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy formation. Our framework couples the state-of-t…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The Entangling of Supernova Feedback Impacts with Coarsening Simulation Resolution

Eric Zhang, Laura V. Sales, Thales A. Gutcke +11

It is often understood that supernova (SN) feedback in galaxies is responsible for regulating star formation (SF) and generating gaseous outflows. However, a detailed look at the s…

astro-ph.GA2025

The distribution and origin of metals in simulated Milky Way-like galaxies

Federico G. Iza, Cecilia Scannapieco, Sebastián E. Nuza +6

In this study, we investigate the distribution and origin of chemical elements in different stellar components of simulated Milky Way-like galaxies in relation to their mass assemb…

astro-ph.GA2025

Unveiling the Impact of Cosmic Rays on the Disc Sizes and Outflows from Dwarf Scales to Galaxy Groups

Rebekka Bieri, Rüdiger Pakmor, Freeke van de Voort +4

Cosmic rays (CRs) are a non-thermal energy component in the interstellar and circumgalactic medium (CGM) that can act as an additional feedback channel beyond thermal and kinetic f…