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

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astro-ph.GA2022★ 20 cited

The cosmic web in Lyman-alpha emission

Chris Byrohl, Dylan Nelson

We develop a comprehensive theoretical model for Lyman-alpha emission, from the scale of individual Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) to Lyman-alpha halos (LAHs), Lyman-alpha blobs (LABs…

astro-ph.GA2022

Emission-line properties of IllustrisTNG galaxies: from local diagnostic diagrams to high-redshift predictions for JWST

Michaela Hirschmann, Stephane Charlot, Anna Feltre +8

We compute synthetic, rest-frame optical and ultraviolet (UV) emission-line properties of galaxy populations at redshifts from z0 to z=8 in a full cosmological framework.…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 22 cited

MUSE-ALMA Haloes VIII: Statistical Study of Circumgalactic Medium Gas

Simon Weng, Céline Péroux, Arjun Karki +15

The distribution of gas and metals in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) plays a critical role in how galaxies evolve. The MUSE-ALMA Halos survey combines MUSE, ALMA and HST observati…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 21 cited

MUSE-ALMA Haloes VII: Survey Science Goals & Design, Data Processing and Final Catalogues

Céline Péroux, Simon Weng, Arjun Karki +16

The gas cycling in the circumgalactic regions of galaxies is known to be multi-phase. The MUSE-ALMA Haloes survey gathers a large multi-wavelength observational sample of absorptio…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 85 cited

Feedback reshapes the baryon distribution within haloes, in halo outskirts, and beyond: the closure radius from dwarfs to massive clusters

Mohammadreza Ayromlou, Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich

We explore three sets of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, IllustrisTNG, EAGLE, and SIMBA, to investigate the physical processes impacting the distribution of baryons in and…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 63 cited

The Circumgalactic Medium of Milky Way-like Galaxies in the TNG50 Simulation -- I: Halo Gas Properties and the Role of SMBH Feedback

Rahul Ramesh, Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich

We analyze the physical properties of gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of 132 Milky Way (MW)-like central galaxies at from the cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical simul…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 37 cited

Satellites of Milky Way- and M31-like galaxies with TNG50: quenched fractions, gas content, and star formation histories

Christoph Engler, Annalisa Pillepich, Gandhali D. Joshi +3

We analyse the quenched fractions, gas content, and star formation histories of ~1200 satellite galaxies with around 198 Milky Way- (MW) and…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 57 cited

The merger and assembly histories of Milky Way- and M31-like galaxies with TNG50: disk survival through mergers

Diego Sotillo-Ramos, Annalisa Pillepich, Martina Donnari +6

We analyze the merger and assembly histories of Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda (M31)-like galaxies to quantify how, and how often, disk galaxies of this mass can survive recent major…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 18 cited

Modeling globular clusters in the TNG50 simulation: predictions from dwarfs to giants

Jessica E. Doppel, Laura V. Sales, Dylan Nelson +9

We present a post-processing catalog of globular clusters (GCs) for the most massive groups and clusters in the TNG50 simulation of the IlllustrisTNG project (virial masses $M…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 31 cited

UV to submillimetre luminosity functions of TNG50 galaxies

Ana Trcka, Maarten Baes, Peter Camps +7

We apply the radiative transfer (RT) code SKIRT on a sample of ~14000 low-redshift (z<= 0.1) galaxies extracted from the TNG50 simulation to enable an apples-to-apples comparison w…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 57 cited

Expectations of the size evolution of massive galaxies at from the TNG50 simulation: the CEERS/JWST view

Luca Costantin, Pablo G. Pérez-González, Jesús Vega-Ferrero +16

We present a catalog of about 25,000 images of massive () galaxies at redshift from the TNG50 cosmological simulation, tailored for…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 20 cited

Ionizing photon production and escape fractions during cosmic reionization in the TNG50 simulation

Ivan Kostyuk, Dylan Nelson, Benedetta Ciardi +2

In this work we investigate the dependence of the escape fraction of ionizing photons, , on various galaxy and host halo properties during the epoch of reionization. W…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 50 cited

Morphological decomposition of TNG50 galaxies: methodology and catalogue

Tommaso Zana, Alessandro Lupi, Matteo Bonetti +6

We present MORDOR (MORphological DecOmposeR, a new algorithm for structural decomposition of simulated galaxies based on stellar kinematics. The code measures the properties of up…

astro-ph.GA2022

Exploring the effect of baryons on the radial distribution of satellite galaxies with GAMA and IllustrisTNG

Stephen D. Riggs, Jon Loveday, Peter A. Thomas +3

We explore the radial distribution of satellite galaxies in groups in the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey and the IllustrisTNG simulations. Considering groups with masses $1…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 16 cited

Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and X-ray scaling relations of galaxies, groups and clusters in the IllustrisTNG simulations

Ana-Roxana Pop, Lars Hernquist, Daisuke Nagai +8

Observable thermodynamical properties of the intracluster medium (ICM) reflect the complex interplay between AGN feedback and the gravitational collapse of haloes. Using the large…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 49 cited

Galactic angular momentum in the IllustrisTNG simulation -- I. Connection to morphology, halo spin, and black hole mass

Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez, Shy Genel, S. Michael Fall +9

We use the TNG100 simulation of the IllustrisTNG project to investigate the stellar specific angular momenta () of 12,000 central galaxies at in a full cosmol…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 29 cited

Gas Accretion Can Drive Turbulence in Galaxies

John C. Forbes, Razieh Emami, Rachel S. Somerville +11

The driving of turbulence in galaxies is deeply connected with the physics of feedback, star formation, outflows, accretion, and radial transport in disks. The velocity dispersion…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 12 cited

The Column Densities of Molecular Gas across Cosmic Time: Bridging Observations and Simulations

Roland Szakacs, Céline Péroux, Martin A. Zwaan +5

Observations of the cosmic evolution of different gas phases across time indicate a marked increase in the molecular gas mass density towards . Such a transformation imp…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 40 cited

ERGO-ML I: Inferring the assembly histories of IllustrisTNG galaxies from integral observable properties via invertible neural networks

Lukas Eisert, Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson +3

A fundamental prediction of the LambdaCDM cosmology is the hierarchical build-up of structure and therefore the successive merging of galaxies into more massive ones. As one can on…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 26 cited

Cool circumgalactic gas in galaxy clusters: connecting the DESI legacy imaging survey and SDSS DR16 MgII absorbers

Abhijeet Anand, Guinevere Kauffmann, Dylan Nelson

We investigate the cool gas absorption in galaxy clusters by cross-correlating MgII absorbers detected in quasar spectra from Data Release 16 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)…