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Inferring the shapes of low-mass galaxies at from FIREbox. Where are the disks?
Haojie Geng, Robert Feldmann, Jorge Moreno +2
Context. The three-dimensional shapes of galaxies provide clues to their formation and evolution. Inferring intrinsic shapes from projected sizes and axis ratios requires assumptio…
Old Disks Die Hard: How Does AGN Feedback Suppress Disk Formation in Milky Way Mass Galaxies?
Patricia Fofie, James S. Bullock, Sarah Wellons +3
The connection between a galaxy's visual shape and its star formation rate is one of the oldest established trends in galaxy evolution, yet the origin of this trend remains unsettl…
Investigating black hole accretion and feedback self-regulation in Seyfert galaxies using the FIRE-3 cosmological hydrodynamic simulations
Jonathan Mercedes-Feliz, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Jose Cevallos +12
Recent observations of local Seyfert galaxies show an intriguing connection between Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) luminosity and a deficit of molecular gas on ~50pc scales compared…
Mergers Matter: Gravothermal Collapse in Dwarf Halos with Self-Interacting Dark Matter
Maya Silverman, Abdelaziz Hussein, Arpit Arora +8
Self-Interacting Dark Matter (SIDM) models with large cross sections at relative velocities below can be tested with dwarf galaxy observations. We ana…
Resolving galaxy formation in the early Universe with BonFIRE and CampFIRE
Jenna Samuel, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Robert Feldmann +16
The abundance and rapid growth of galaxies at cosmic dawn revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope challenges models of galaxy formation, motivating new simulations to uncover th…
From protogalaxy through thick and thin: Why did the Milky Way evolve in three kinematic phases?
Olti Myrtaj, James S. Bullock, Michael Boylan-Kolchin +9
APOGEE and Gaia data suggest the Milky Way's kinematic structure evolved through three distinct phases: a disordered protogalaxy, which ``spun up'' into a thick stellar disk, and t…
Radial redistribution of stellar orbits in FIRE simulations of Milky-Way-mass galaxies
Matthew A. Bellardini, Fiona McCluskey, Andrew Wetzel +3
A central question in galactic dynamics and galactic archeology is: how much do the orbits of stars redistribute (migrate) after birth? We use the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simul…
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 role of galactic winds fueling central starbursts and quasars in the FIRE cosmological simulations
Jonathan Mercedes-Feliz, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Boon Kiat Oh +7
Central starbursts and Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are thought to be fueled by either galaxy interactions or secular processes in gravitationally unstable discs. We employ cosmolo…
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…
How invisible stellar halos bias our understanding of ultra-faint galaxies
Coral Wheeler, Jorge Moreno, M. Katy Rodriguez Wimberly +6
We explore how a realistic surface brightness detection limit of mag arcsec for stars at the edges of ultra-faint galaxies affects our ability to infer th…
Stellar Velocity Dispersion versus Age: Consistency across Observations and Simulations, with the Milky Way as an Outlier
Fiona McCluskey, Andrew Wetzel, Sarah Loebman +1
Within disk galaxies, the velocity dispersion, , of stars increases with age, , as measured in the Milky Way (MW) and nearby galaxies. This relation provides a key window int…
Pickles on FIRE: The 3D Shape Evolution of Simulated Milky Way-Mass Galaxies
Luke Y. Xia, Courtney Klein, Jenny D. Wang +6
We use reduced-mass eigentensors to quantify the 3D ellipsoidal shape evolution of thirteen Milky Way-mass galaxies simulated using zoom simulations with FIRE-2 physics; all but on…
The Shape of FIREbox Galaxies and a Potential Tension with Low-mass Disks
Courtney Klein, Jenny D. Wang, Luke Xia +9
We study the intrinsic and observable shapes of approximately 700 star-forming galaxies with stellar masses of M from the FIREbox simulation at . We c…
Effects of galactic environment on size and dark matter content in low-mass galaxies
Francisco J. Mercado, Jorge Moreno, Robert Feldmann +8
We utilize the cosmological volume simulation, FIREbox, to investigate how a galaxy's environment influences its size and dark matter content. Our study focuses on approximately 1,…
The Effect of Galaxy Interactions on Starbursts in Milky Way-Mass Galaxies in FIRE Simulations
Fei Li, Mubdi Rahman, Norman Murray +5
Simulations and observations suggest that galaxy interactions may enhance the star formation rate (SFR) in merging galaxies. One proposed mechanism is the torque exerted on the gas…
Confronting the Diversity Problem: The Limits of Galaxy Rotation Curves as a tool to Understand Dark Matter Profiles
Isabel S. Sands, Philip F. Hopkins, Xuejian Shen +9
While galaxy rotation curves provide one of the most powerful methods for measuring dark matter profiles in the inner regions of rotation-supported galaxies, at the dwarf scale the…
Size-Mass Relations for Simulated Low-Mass Galaxies: Mock Imaging versus Intrinsic Properties
Courtney Klein, James S. Bullock, Jorge Moreno +4
The observationally-inferred size versus stellar-mass relationship (SMR) for low-mass galaxies provides an important test for galaxy formation models. However, the relationship rel…
Dense stellar clump formation driven by strong quasar winds in the FIRE cosmological hydrodynamic simulations
Jonathan Mercedes-Feliz, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Boon Kiat Oh +9
We investigate the formation of dense stellar clumps in a suite of high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations of a massive, star forming galaxy at under the presen…
Effects of multi-channel AGN feedback in FIRE cosmological simulations of massive galaxies
Lindsey Byrne, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, Sarah Wellons +6
Feedback from supermassive black holes is believed to be a critical driver of the observed color bimodality of galaxies above the Milky Way mass scale. AGN feedback has been modele…
Hooks & Bends in the Radial Acceleration Relation: Discriminatory Tests for Dark Matter and MOND
Francisco J. Mercado, James S. Bullock, Jorge Moreno +5
The Radial Acceleration Relation (RAR) connects the total gravitational acceleration of a galaxy at a given radius, , with that accounted for by baryons at the same…