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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,…