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most citedCOLOSSUS: A python toolkit for cosmology, large-scale structure, and dark matter halos

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astro-ph.GA2026

Towards robust simulations of the galactic dynamo: a cross-code comparison between Eulerian and Lagrangian schemes

Mark Ivan Ugalino, Benedikt Diemer, Vadim A. Semenov +8

Galactic magnetic fields are thought to be seeded by microscopic processes such as the Biermann battery and are primarily amplified to observed microgauss strengths by dynamo proce…

astro-ph.GA2026

Shock-heated Away: The Impact of Radiative Cooling on Gas-Phase Transitions in Supernova Remnants

Zuzanna Kocjan, Benedikt Diemer, Vadim A. Semenov +2

Supernova (SN) feedback plays a central role in regulating the structure of the interstellar medium (ISM) through the injection of energy and momentum. The amount of hot gas produc…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 8 cited

The mass-dependent UVJ diagram at cosmic noon: A challenge for galaxy evolution models and dust radiative transfer

Andrea Gebek, Benedikt Diemer, Marco Martorano +9

Context. The UVJ color-color diagram is a widely used diagnostic to separate star-forming and quiescent galaxies. Observational data from photometric surveys reveal a strong stella…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

The Outskirt Stellar Mass of Low-Redshift Massive Galaxies is an Excellent Halo Mass Proxy in Illustris/IllustrisTNG Simulations

Shuo Xu, Song Huang, Alexie Leauthaud +4

Recent observations suggest that the extended stellar halos of low-redshift massive galaxies are tightly connected to the assembly of their dark matter halos. In this paper, we use…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

VERTICO and IllustrisTNG: The spatially resolved effects of environment on galactic gas

Adam R. H. Stevens, Toby Brown, Benedikt Diemer +15

It has been shown in previous publications that the TNG100 simulation quantitatively reproduces the observed reduction in each of the total atomic and total molecular hydrogen gas…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

Atomic Hydrogen Shows its True Colours: Correlations between HI and Galaxy Colour in Simulations

Calvin Osinga, Benedikt Diemer, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro +2

Intensity mapping experiments are beginning to measure the spatial distribution of neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) to constrain cosmological parameters and the large-scale distributio…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 24 cited

The atomic-to-molecular hydrogen transition in the TNG50 simulation: Using realistic UV fields to create spatially resolved HI maps

Andrea Gebek, Maarten Baes, Benedikt Diemer +6

Cold gas in galaxies provides a crucial test to evaluate the realism of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. To extract the atomic and molecular hydrogen properties of the simu…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 34 cited

The Contribution of In-situ and Ex-situ Star Formation in Early-Type Galaxies: MaNGA versus IllustrisTNG

Carlo Cannarozzo, Alexie Leauthaud, Grecco A. Oyarzún +6

We compare stellar mass surface density, metallicity, age, and line-of-sight velocity dispersion profiles in massive () present-day early-type g…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 10 cited

Cold Gas in Massive Galaxies as A Critical Test of Black Hole Feedback Models

Jingjing Shi, Yingjie Peng, Benedikt Diemer +15

Black hole feedback has been widely implemented as the key recipe to quench star formation in massive galaxies in modern semi-analytic models and hydrodynamical simulations. As the…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 30 cited

On the formation of massive quiescent galaxies with diverse morphologies in the TNG50 simulation

Minjung Park, Sandro Tacchella, Erica J. Nelson +7

Observations have shown that the star-formation activity and the morphology of galaxies are closely related, but the underlying physical connection is not well understood. Using th…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 68 cited

VERTICO: The Virgo Environment Traced In CO Survey

Toby Brown, Christine D. Wilson, Nikki Zabel +33

We present the Virgo Environment Traced in CO (VERTICO) survey, a new effort to map CO(), CO(), and CO() in 51 Virgo Cluster galaxies with the A…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 8 cited

Entropy-Conserving Scheme for Modeling Nonthermal Energies in Fluid Dynamics Simulations

Vadim A. Semenov, Andrey V. Kravtsov, Benedikt Diemer

We compare the performance of energy-based and entropy-conserving schemes for modeling nonthermal energy components, such as unresolved turbulence and cosmic rays, using idealized…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 102 cited

Spatially Resolved Star Formation and Inside-out Quenching in the TNG50 Simulation and 3D-HST Observations

Erica J. Nelson, Sandro Tacchella, Benedikt Diemer +21

We compare the star forming main sequence (SFMS) -- both integrated and resolved on 1kpc scales -- between the high-resolution TNG50 simulation of IllustrisTNG and observations fro…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 34 cited

Molecular hydrogen in IllustrisTNG galaxies: carefully comparing signatures of environment with local CO & SFR data

Adam R. H. Stevens, Claudia del P. Lagos, Luca Cortese +7

We examine how the post-processed content of molecular hydrogen (H) in galaxies from the TNG100 cosmological, hydrodynamic simulation changes with environment at , ass…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 52 cited

The splashback boundary of haloes in hydrodynamic simulations

Stephanie O'Neil, David J. Barnes, Mark Vogelsberger +1

The splashback radius, , is a physically motivated halo boundary that separates infalling and collapsed matter of haloes. We study in the hydrodynamic and…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 4 cited

IllustrisTNG and S2COSMOS: possible conflicts in the evolution of neutral gas and dust

Jenifer S. Millard, Benedikt Diemer, Stephen A. Eales +3

We investigate the evolution in galactic dust mass over cosmic time through i) empirically derived dust masses using stacked submillimetre fluxes at 850um in the COSMOS field, and…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 10 cited

Coordinated Assembly of Galaxy Groups and Clusters in the IllustrisTNG Simulations

Meng Gu, Charlie Conroy, Benedikt Diemer +6

Recent stellar population analysis of early-type galaxy spectra has demonstrated that the low-mass galaxies in cluster centers have high [] and old ages characteristic of…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 22 cited

Stellar and Weak Lensing Profiles of Massive Galaxies in the Hyper-Suprime Cam Survey and in Hydrodynamic Simulations

Felipe Ardila, Song Huang, Alexie Leauthaud +11

We perform a consistent comparison of the mass and mass profiles of massive () central galaxies at z~0.4 from deep Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) observation…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 113 cited

The Diversity and Variability of Star Formation Histories in Models of Galaxy Evolution

Kartheik G. Iyer, Sandro Tacchella, Shy Genel +10

Understanding the variability of galaxy star formation histories (SFHs) across a range of timescales provides insight into the underlying physical processes that regulate star form…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 1 cited

The merger-driven evolution of massive early-type galaxies

Carlo Cannarozzo, Carlo Nipoti, Alessandro Sonnenfeld +4

The evolution of the structural and kinematic properties of early-type galaxies (ETGs), their scaling relations, as well as their stellar metallicity and age contain precious infor…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 44 cited

How Accurately Can We Detect the Splashback Radius of Dark Matter Halos and its Correlation With Accretion Rate?

Enia Xhakaj, Benedikt Diemer, Alexie Leauthaud +5

The splashback radius () of dark matter halos has recently been detected using weak gravitational lensing and cross-correlations with galaxies. However, different metho…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 40 cited

ALMACAL VI: Molecular gas mass density across cosmic time via a blind search for intervening molecular absorbers

Anne Klitsch, Celine Peroux, Martin A. Zwaan +12

We are just starting to understand the physical processes driving the dramatic change in cosmic star-formation rate between and the present day. A quantity directly linke…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 48 cited

Origin of the galaxy HI size-mass relation

Adam R. H. Stevens, Benedikt Diemer, Claudia del P. Lagos +4

We analytically derive the observed size-mass relation of galaxies' atomic hydrogen (HI), including limits on its scatter, based on simple assumptions about the structure of HI dis…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 187 cited

Morphology and star formation in IllustrisTNG: the build-up of spheroids and discs

Sandro Tacchella, Benedikt Diemer, Lars Hernquist +8

Using the IllustrisTNG simulations, we investigate the connection between galaxy morphology and star formation in central galaxies with stellar masses in the range $10^9-10^{11.5}~…