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most citedSimulating Galaxy Formation with the IllustrisTNG Model

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astro-ph.CO2026

TNGC-SIDM I: Evolution of massive cluster mergers under the self-interacting dark matter paradigm

Wonki Lee, Dylan Nelson, Myungkook J. Jee +8

Merging galaxy clusters provide an ideal laboratory for testing the self-interacting nature of dark matter. In this paper, we present a pilot study of magnetohydrodynamical cosmolo…

astro-ph.CO2026★ 2 cited

The AIDA-TNG project: dark matter profiles and concentrations in alternative dark matter models

Giulia Despali, Carlo Giocoli, Lauro Moscardini +3

In the standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM) scenario, the density profiles of dark matter haloes are well described by analytical models linking their concentration to halo mass. Altern…

astro-ph.CO2026★ 2 cited

The AIDA-TNG project: 3D halo shapes

C. Giocoli, G. Despali, L. Moscardini +4

Context. The shapes of dark matter halos can be used to constrain the fundamental properties of dark matter. In standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM) cosmologies, halos are typically tri…

astro-ph.CO2025

The origin of scatter in the X-ray luminosity - halo mass relation of galaxy clusters

Joey Braspenning, Joop Schaye, Annalisa Pillepich +1

Galaxy groups and clusters are excellent probes of large-scale structure and are shaped by some of the most energetic physical processes in the Universe. They follow a tight scalin…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 4 cited

Modelling the selection of galaxy groups with end to end simulations

R. Seppi, D. Eckert, A. Finoguenov +13

Feedback from supernovae and AGN shapes galaxy formation and evolution, yet its impact remains unclear. Galaxy groups offer a crucial probe, as their binding energy is comparable t…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 20 cited

Introducing the AIDA-TNG project: galaxy formation in alternative dark matter models

Giulia Despali, Lauro Moscardini, Dylan Nelson +3

We introduce the AIDA-TNG project, a suite of cosmological magnetohydrodynamic simulations that simultaneously model galaxy formation and different variations of the underlying dar…

astro-ph.CO2023

Preparing for low surface brightness science with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory: A Comparison of Observable and Simulated Intracluster Light Fractions

Sarah Brough, Syeda Lammim Ahad, Yannick M. Bahe +13

Intracluster Light (ICL) provides an important record of the interactions galaxy clusters have undergone. However, we are limited in our understanding by our measurement methods. T…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 4 cited

On the nature of disks at high redshift seen by JWST/CEERS with contrastive learning and cosmological simulations

J. Vega-Ferrero, M. Huertas-Company, L. Costantin +26

Visual inspections of the first optical rest-frame images from JWST have indicated a surprisingly high fraction of disk galaxies at high redshifts. Here, we alternatively apply sel…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 69 cited

Co-evolution of massive black holes and their host galaxies at high redshift: discrepancies from six cosmological simulations and the key role of JWST

Melanie Habouzit, Masafusa Onoue, Eduardo Banados +7

The James Webb Space Telescope will have the power to characterize high-redshift quasars at z>6 with an unprecedented depth and spatial resolution. While the brightest quasars at s…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 42 cited

Magnetization of the intergalactic medium in the IllustrisTNG simulations: the importance of extended, outflow-driven bubbles

Andres Aramburo Garcia, Kyrylo Bondarenko, Alexey Boyarsky +3

We study the effects of galaxy formation physics on the magnetization of the intergalactic medium (IGM) using the IllustrisTNG simulations. We demonstrate that large-scale regions…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 305 cited

The CAMELS project: Cosmology and Astrophysics with MachinE Learning Simulations

Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Shy Genel +19

We present the Cosmology and Astrophysics with MachinE Learning Simulations --CAMELS-- project. CAMELS is a suite of 4,233 cosmological simulations of volu…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 42 cited

Correlations between supermassive black holes and hot gas atmospheres in IllustrisTNG and X-ray observations

Nhut Truong, Annalisa Pillepich, Norbert Werner

Recent X-ray observations have revealed remarkable correlations between the masses of central supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and the X-ray properties of the hot atmospheres perme…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 16 cited

Teaching neural networks to generate Fast Sunyaev Zel'dovich Maps

Leander Thiele, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, David N. Spergel +2

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) and the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effects trace the distribution of electron pressure and momentum in the hot Universe. These observab…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 64 cited

Galaxy bias and primordial non-Gaussianity: insights from galaxy formation simulations with IllustrisTNG

Alexandre Barreira, Giovanni Cabass, Fabian Schmidt +2

We study the impact that large-scale perturbations of (i) the matter density and (ii) the primordial gravitational potential with local primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) have on gal…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 100 cited

Revealing the galaxy-halo connection in IllustrisTNG

Sownak Bose, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Lars Hernquist +5

We use the IllustrisTNG (TNG) simulations to explore the galaxy-halo connection as inferred from state-of-the-art cosmological, magnetohydrodynamical simulations. With the high mas…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 45 cited

Separate Universe Simulations with IllustrisTNG: baryonic effects on power spectrum responses and higher-order statistics

Alexandre Barreira, Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich +5

We measure power spectrum response functions in the presence of baryonic physical processes using separate universe simulations with the IllustrisTNG galaxy formation model. The re…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 14 cited

4MOST Consortium Survey 5: eROSITA Galaxy Cluster Redshift Survey

A. Finoguenov, A. Merloni, J. Comparat +11

Groups and clusters of galaxies are a current focus of astronomical research owing to their role in determining the environmental effects on galaxies and the constraints they provi…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 90 cited

A Deep Learning Approach to Galaxy Cluster X-ray Masses

M. Ntampaka, J. ZuHone, D. Eisenstein +9

We present a machine-learning approach for estimating galaxy cluster masses from Chandra mock images. We utilize a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), a deep machine learning tool…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 201 cited

Baryons in the CosmicWeb of IllustrisTNG - I: Gas in Knots, Filaments, Sheets and Voids

Davide Martizzi, Mark Vogelsberger, Maria Celeste Artale +9

We analyze the IllustrisTNG simulations to study the mass, volume fraction and phase distribution of gaseous baryons embedded in the knots, filaments, sheets and voids of the Cosmi…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 54 cited

Forecasts on dark energy from the X-ray cluster survey with eROSITA: constraints from counts and clustering

Annalisa Pillepich, Thomas H. Reiprich, Cristiano Porciani +2

We forecast the potential of the forthcoming X-ray galaxy-cluster survey with eROSITA to constrain dark-energy models. We focus on spatially-flat cosmological scenarios with either…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 199 cited

Ingredients for 21cm intensity mapping

Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Shy Genel, Emanuele Castorina +11

[Abridged] We study the abundance and clustering properties of HI at redshifts using TNG100, a large state-of-the-art magneto-hydrodynamic simulation of a 75 Mpc/h bo…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 50 cited

ETHOS -- an effective theory of structure formation: predictions for the high-redshift Universe -- abundance of galaxies and reionization

Mark R. Lovell, Jesús Zavala, Mark Vogelsberger +6

We contrast predictions for the high-redshift galaxy population and reionization history between cold dark matter (CDM) and an alternative self-interacting dark matter model based…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 103 cited

A census of cool core galaxy clusters in IllustrisTNG

David J. Barnes, Mark Vogelsberger, Rahul Kannan +10

The thermodynamic structure of hot gas in galaxy clusters is sensitive to astrophysical processes and typically difficult to model with galaxy formation simulations. We explore the…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 104 cited

The uniformity and time-invariance of the intra-cluster metal distribution in galaxy clusters from the IllustrisTNG simulations

Mark Vogelsberger, Federico Marinacci, Paul Torrey +8

The distribution of metals in the intra-cluster medium encodes important information about the enrichment history and formation of galaxy clusters. Here we explore the metal conten…