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20222026
most citedThe FLAMINGO project: cosmological hydrodynamical simulations for large-scale structure and galaxy cluster surveys

258 citations · 502 across the 29 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Galactic Morpholography: Linking present-day galaxy compactness to assembly history and relic formation in the COLIBRE simulations

Maximilian Zemsch, Claudia D. P. Lagos, Chiara Spiniello +11

Compactness is widely used to identify candidate relic galaxies, the largely untouched survivors of the first compact massive galaxies. Yet relicness is an evolutionary rather than…

astro-ph.GA2026

Atomic hydrogen in galaxies in the COLIBRE simulations

Kyle A. Oman, Ruby J. Wright, Andrea Gebek +12

We present an overview of the properties of atomic hydrogen (HI) in galaxies at redshift in the COLIBRE cosmological galaxy formation simulations. COLIBRE directly simulates…

astro-ph.GA2026

Clustering-based halo mass assignment for high-redshift galaxies: method, validation, and application to JWST

Seunghwan Lim, Sandro Tacchella, Sara Saleh +7

We present a clustering-based method for inferring halo masses of high-redshift galaxies, validated using the COLIBRE simulations combined with the HOMA empirical model, which assu…

astro-ph.GA2026

The atomic multiphase interstellar medium of galaxies in the COLIBRE simulations

Moa Huppenkothen, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Joop Schaye +7

We analyse the neutral ISM of galaxies at redshift z=0 in the COLIBRE hydrodynamical simulations and investigate the conditions under which these two gas phases coexist in a narrow…

astro-ph.GA2026

The origin of the stellar mass-size relation of satellite galaxies in the COLIBRE simulations

Bruno M. Celiz, Julio F. Navarro, Joop Schaye +9

We study the stellar mass-size relation of satellite galaxies in the COLIBRE suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. Satellites deviate from the relation that holds for c…

astro-ph.GA2026

The descendants of JWST galaxies in the COLIBRE simulations

Xu Zhao, Carlos S. Frenk, Andrew Pontzen +9

Recent observations with JWST have revealed a population of UV-bright galaxies at . This discovery naturally raises the question: what do such early galaxies evolve in…

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 COLIBRE-SKIRT pipeline: Calibration-free dust radiative transfer postprocessing for cosmological simulations

Andrea Gebek, Maarten Baes, Nick Andreadis +16

Context. Three-dimensional dust radiative transfer provides a powerful framework to connect cosmological galaxy simulations to multiwavelength observations. Until recently, in larg…

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.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.GA2026

The importance of super-Eddington black hole accretion for the emergence of massive quiescent galaxies at high redshift

Evgenii Chaikin, Joop Schaye, Filip Huško +3

Recent JWST observations indicate that massive quiescent galaxies (stellar mass ) at high redshift () are more abundant than pred…

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.GA2025★ 2 cited

Dynamical disequilibrium in dwarf galaxies: rethinking gas dynamics, rotation curves, and dark matter inference

Diego Dado, Kyle A. Oman, Katherine E. Harborne +9

We quantify departures from hydrodynamical and centrifugal equilibrium in the gas discs of low-mass () galaxies from the COLIBR…

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.GA2025

On the consistency of jet feedback modelling across different astrophysics hydrodynamical codes

N. Maragkakis, M. A. Bourne, C. Power +3

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) feedback is essential in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation, yet its implementation has to rely on subgrid models due to limited resolution.…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

Non-explosive pre-supernova feedback in the COLIBRE model of galaxy formation

Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Joop Schaye +7

We present the implementation and testing of a subgrid non-explosive pre-supernova (NEPS) feedback module for the COLIBRE model of galaxy formation. The NEPS module incorporates th…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

A hybrid active galactic nucleus feedback model with spinning black holes, winds and jets

Filip Huško, Cedric G. Lacey, Joop Schaye +6

We present a hybrid active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback model that features three accretion disc states (the thick, thin, and slim discs at low, moderate, and super-Eddington ac…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 11 cited

Modelling the evolution and influence of dust in cosmological simulations that include the cold phase of the interstellar medium

James W. Trayford, Joop Schaye, Camila Correa +7

While marginal in mass terms, dust grains play an outsized role in both the physics and observation of the interstellar medium (ISM). However, explicit modelling of this ISM consti…