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Forming a Large Disc Galaxy from a z<1 Major Merger
F. Governato, C. B. Brook, A. M. Brooks +8
Using high resolution SPH simulations in a fully cosmological Lambda CDM context we study the formation of a bright disk dominated galaxy that originates from a "wet" major merger…
The Role of Cold Flows in the Assembly of Galaxy Disks
A. M. Brooks, F. Governato, T. Quinn +2
We use high resolution cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to demonstrate that cold flow gas accretion, particularly along filaments, modifies the standard picture of gas accre…
Pairing of Supermassive Black Holes in unequal-mass galaxy mergers
Simone Callegari, Lucio Mayer, Stelios Kazantzidis +4
We examine the pairing process of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) down to scales of 20-100 pc using a set of N-body/SPH simulations of binary mergers of disk galaxies with mass ra…
Damped Lyman Alpha Systems in Galaxy Formation Simulations
Andrew Pontzen, Fabio Governato, Max Pettini +6
We investigate the population of z=3 damped Lyman alpha absorbers (DLAs) in a recent series of high resolution galaxy formation simulations. The simulations are of interest because…
The Formation of Polar Disk Galaxies
Chris B. Brook, Fabio Governato, Thomas Quinn +5
Polar Ring Galaxies, such as NGC4650A, are a class of galaxy which have two kinematically distinct components that are inclined by almost 90 degrees to each other. These striking g…
The formation of disk galaxies in computer simulations
Lucio Mayer, Fabio Governato, Tobias Kaufmann
The formation of disk galaxies is one of the most outstanding problems in modern astrophysics and cosmology. We review the progress made by numerical simulations carried out on lar…
The Formation of Galaxy Disks
F. Governato, L. Mayer, C. Brook
We present a new set of multi-million particle SPH simulations of the formation of disk dominated galaxies in a cosmological context. Some of these galaxies are higher resolution v…