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20072023
most citedIntroducing the Illustris Project: Simulating the coevolution of dark and visible matter in the Universe

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astro-ph.GA201650 cited

Increasing blackhole feedback induced quenching with anisotropic thermal conduction

Rahul Kannan, Mark Vogelsberger, Christoph Pfrommer +5

Feedback from central supermassive blackholes is often invoked to explain the low star formation rates in massive galaxies at the centers of galaxy clusters. However, the detailed…

astro-ph.GA201625 cited

The Role of Star-Formation and AGN in Dust Heating of z=0.3-2.8 Galaxies - II. Informing IR AGN fraction estimates through simulations

Eric Roebuck, Anna Sajina, Christopher C. Hayward +4

A key question in extragalactic studies is the determination of the relative roles of stars and AGN in powering dusty galaxies at 1-3 where the bulk of star-formation and AG…

astro-ph.GA201694 cited

Massive Close Pairs Measure Rapid Galaxy Assembly in Mergers at High Redshift

Gregory F. Snyder, Jennifer M. Lotz, Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez +3

We compare mass-selected close pairs at z > 1 with the intrinsic galaxy merger rate in the Illustris Simulations. To do so, we construct three 140 arcmin^2 lightcone catalogs and m…

astro-ph.GA201669 cited

The information content of stellar halos: Stellar population gradients and accretion histories in early-type Illustris galaxies

B. A. Cook, C. Conroy, A. Pillepich +2

Long dynamical timescales in the outskirts of galaxies preserve the information content of their accretion histories, for example in the form of stellar population gradients. We pr…

astro-ph.GA2016201 cited

The role of mergers and halo spin in shaping galaxy morphology

Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez, Laura V. Sales, Shy Genel +10

Mergers and the spin of the dark matter halo are factors traditionally believed to determine the morphology of galaxies within a CDM cosmology. We study this hypothesis by consi…

astro-ph.GA20161.3k cited

Simulating galaxy formation with black hole driven thermal and kinetic feedback

Rainer Weinberger, Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist +8

The inefficiency of star formation in massive elliptical galaxies is widely believed to be caused by the interactions of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) with the surrounding gas.…