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Negligible Effects of Baryons on the Angular Momentum Scaling Relations of Galactic Dark Matter Halos
S. Michael Fall, Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez
In cosmological simulations without baryons, the relation between the specific angular momentum and mass of galactic dark matter halos has the well-establis…
Milky Way and Andromeda analogs from the TNG50 simulation
Annalisa Pillepich, Diego Sotillo-Ramos, Rahul Ramesh +7
We present the properties of Milky Way- and Andromeda-like (MW/M31-like) galaxies simulated within TNG50, the highest-resolution run of the IllustrisTNG suite of CDM magneto-hyd…
The growth of brightest cluster galaxies in the TNG300 simulation:dissecting the contributions from mergers and in situ star formation
Daniel Montenegro-Taborda, Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez, Annalisa Pillepich +4
We investigate the formation of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) in the TNG300 cosmological simulation of the IllustrisTNG project. Our cluster sample consists of 700 haloes with…
Massive Close Pairs Measure Rapid Galaxy Assembly in Mergers at High Redshift
Gregory F. Snyder, Jennifer M. Lotz, Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez +3
We compare mass-selected close pairs at z > 1 with the intrinsic galaxy merger rate in the Illustris Simulations. To do so, we construct three 140 arcmin^2 lightcone catalogs and m…
The information content of stellar halos: Stellar population gradients and accretion histories in early-type Illustris galaxies
B. A. Cook, C. Conroy, A. Pillepich +2
Long dynamical timescales in the outskirts of galaxies preserve the information content of their accretion histories, for example in the form of stellar population gradients. We pr…
The role of mergers and halo spin in shaping galaxy morphology
Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez, Laura V. Sales, Shy Genel +10
Mergers and the spin of the dark matter halo are factors traditionally believed to determine the morphology of galaxies within a CDM cosmology. We study this hypothesis by consi…