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most citedThe COLIBRE project: cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation and evolution

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28 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The effect of galaxy interactions on star formation rates in the COLIBRE simulations

Quinten W. E. van Zegveld, Evgenii Chaikin, Joop Schaye +8

Observations and theory indicate that galaxy interactions enhance star formation rates (SFRs). However, the degree of enhancement and its dependence on the properties of the intera…

astro-ph.GA2026

The influence of feedback on the baryonic content of haloes in the COLIBRE simulations

Jonathan J. Davies, Joop Schaye, Filip Huško +7

We present predictions for the relation between the halo gas mass fraction and halo mass, , from the COLIBRE cosmological simulations of galaxy formation…

astro-ph.GA2026

The evolution of galaxy dust scaling relations in the COLIBRE simulations

Aswin P. Vijayan, James W. Trayford, Joop Schaye +11

We present dust scaling relations across cosmic time () for galaxies in the COLIBRE cosmological simulations. COLIBRE self-consistently tracks dust production, grow…

astro-ph.GA2026

Cosmological simulations of the high-redshift galaxy population adopting a variable stellar initial mass function

Anna Durrant, Robert A. Crain, Cedric G. Lacey +15

JWST surveys reveal a greater space density of high-redshift UV-bright galaxies than predicted by conventional galaxy formation models. We present results from a cMpc cosmo…

astro-ph.GA2026

The evolution of the galaxy gas-phase mass-metallicity relation from to in the COLIBRE cosmological simulations

Piyush Sharda, Joop Schaye, Robert J. McGibbon +8

We present the evolution of the galaxy gas-phase mass-metallicity relation (MZR) from to in the COLIBRE cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. Amongst other novel fe…

astro-ph.GA2026

The galaxy ultraviolet luminosity function from to in the COLIBRE simulations

Shengdong Lu, Carlos S. Frenk, Cedric G. Lacey +17

JWST has enabled the detection of galaxies in the earliest stages of cosmic history. We compare the ultraviolet luminosity functions (UVLFs) at redshifts predicted by a se…

astro-ph.GA2026

Unveiling the population of massive quenched galaxies at in the COLIBRE simulations - II. The role of AGN feedback and environment on their emergence

Ángel Chandro-Gómez, Claudia del P. Lagos, Chris Power +16

Early () Massive (), Quenched Galaxies (MQGs) challenge current galaxy formation models. In this series, we study these…

astro-ph.CO2026★ 2 cited

The FLAMINGO simulations data release

John C. Helly, Robert J. McGibbon, Joop Schaye +15

We describe the public release of petabytes of data from the FLAMINGO cosmological simulations. The suite consists of hydrodynamical simulations that include radiative cooli…

astro-ph.GA2026

The morphologies of present-day galaxies in the COLIBRE simulations

Victor J. Forouhar Moreno, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller +9

The diversity of galaxy morphologies and their relations with galaxy and halo properties is fundamental to understanding galaxy formation. Cosmological simulations of representativ…

astro-ph.GA2026

The tidal evolution of satellite galaxies in cosmological simulations: insights from COLIBRE

Feihong He, Jiaxin Han, Joop Schaye +12

We investigate the co-evolution of the stellar and dark matter mass of satellite galaxies using the COLIBRE cosmological hydrodynamical simulations with subhaloes resolved by the h…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

The evolution of the sizes and angular momentum content of galaxies in the COLIBRE simulations

Aaron D. Ludlow, Katy L. Proctor, Joop Schaye +12

We analyse the sizes and specific angular momentum content of galaxies in the Colibre cosmological hydrodynamical simulations spanning two orders of magnitude in mass resolution. W…

astro-ph.GA2025

Unveiling the population of massive quenched galaxies at in the COLIBRE simulations - I. Galaxy demographics

Ángel Chandro-Gómez, Claudia del P. Lagos, Chris Power +14

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a substantial population of Massive (), Quenched Galaxies (MQGs) in the early Universe ($z \ge…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Kennicutt-Schmidt relation of galaxies over 13 billion years in the COLIBRE hydrodynamical simulations

Claudia del P. Lagos, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller +16

We investigate the correlation between star formation rate (SFR) surface density and gas surface density (known as the Kennicutt-Schmidt, KS, relation) at kiloparsec (kpc) scales a…

astro-ph.CO2025

Clustering effects on the Dark Siren determination of : A simulation study

Marios Kalomenopoulos, Riccardo Barbieri, Sadegh Khochfar +2

We investigate the cosmological power of gravitational wave (GWs) events without electromagnetic counterparts using high-resolution, cosmological simulations that include realistic…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Gravitational potential drives the concentration dependence of the stellar mass-halo mass relation

Kai Wang, Joop Schaye, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay +8

We investigate the origin of the scatter in the stellar mass-halo mass (SMHM) relation using the \colibre cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. At fixed halo mass, we find a cle…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

FLAMINGO: Tracing the co-evolution of hot gas and black holes in galaxy groups and clusters

Emily E. Costello, Ian G. McCarthy, Jaime Salcido +4

The gas mass fraction of galaxy groups and clusters is a key physical quantity for constraining the impact of feedback processes on large-scale structure. While several modern cosm…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

The evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function and star formation rates in the COLIBRE simulations from redshift 17 to 0

Evgenii Chaikin, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller +7

We investigate the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function (GSMF) and star formation rates (SFRs) across cosmic time in the COLIBRE simulations of galaxy formation. COLIBRE i…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 6 cited

COLIBRE: calibrating subgrid feedback in cosmological simulations that include a cold gas phase

Evgenii Chaikin, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller +17

We present the calibration of stellar and active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback in the subgrid model for the new COLIBRE hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation. COLIBRE di…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 26 cited

The COLIBRE project: cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation and evolution

Joop Schaye, Evgenii Chaikin, Matthieu Schaller +18

We present the COLIBRE galaxy formation model and the COLIBRE suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. COLIBRE includes new models for radiative cooling, dust grains, star…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 22 cited

SOAP: A Python Package for Calculating the Properties of Galaxies and Halos Formed in Cosmological Simulations

Robert McGibbon, John C. Helly, Joop Schaye +2

Modern large scale cosmological hydrodynamic simulations require robust tools capable of analysing their data outputs in a parallel and efficient manner. We introduce SOAP (Spheric…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 10 cited

Cosmological feedback from a halo assembly perspective

Luisa Lucie-Smith, Hiranya V. Peiris, Andrew Pontzen +6

The impact of feedback from galaxy formation on cosmological probes is typically quantified in terms of the suppression of the matter power spectrum in hydrodynamical compared to g…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 5 cited

Unbiased estimates of the shapes of haloes using the positions of satellite galaxies

A. Herle, N. E. Chisari, H. Hoekstra +4

The shapes of dark matter haloes are sensitive to both cosmology and baryon physics, but are difficult to measure observationally. A promising way to constrain them is to use the p…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 6 cited

Assessing subhalo finders in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations

Victor J. Forouhar Moreno, John Helly, Robert McGibbon +5

Cosmological simulations are essential for inferring cosmological and galaxy population properties based on forward-modelling, but this typically requires finding the population of…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 14 cited

On the accuracy of dark matter halo merger trees and the consequences for semi-analytic models of galaxy formation

Ángel Chandro-Gómez, Claudia del P. Lagos, Chris Power +6

Galaxy formation and evolution models, such as semi-analytic models, are powerful theoretical tools for predicting how galaxies evolve across cosmic time. These models follow the e…