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astro-ph.GA2021★ 24 cited
The galaxy-halo size relation of low-mass galaxies in FIRE
Eric Rohr, Robert Feldmann, James Bullock +7
Galaxy sizes correlate closely with the sizes of their parent dark matter haloes, suggesting a link between halo formation and galaxy growth. However, the precise nature of this re…
astro-ph.GA2021★ 72 cited
The bursty origin of the Milky Way thick disc
Sijie Yu, James S. Bullock, Courtney Klein +11
We investigate thin and thick stellar disc formation in Milky-Way-mass galaxies using twelve FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations. All simulated galaxies experience an early per…