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20142019
most citedIntroducing the Illustris Project: Simulating the coevolution of dark and visible matter in the Universe

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24 papers

astro-ph.GA20196 cited

Understanding the circumgalactic medium is critical for understanding galaxy evolution

Molly S. Peeples, Peter Behroozi, Rongmon Bordoloi +69

Galaxies evolve under the influence of gas flows between their interstellar medium and their surrounding gaseous halos known as the circumgalactic medium (CGM). The CGM is a major…

astro-ph.GA2019141 cited

Interacting galaxies on FIRE-2: The connection between enhanced star formation and interstellar gas content

Jorge Moreno, Paul Torrey, Sara L. Ellison +8

We present a comprehensive suite of high-resolution (parsec-scale), idealised (non-cosmological) galaxy merger simulations (24 runs, stellar mass ratio ~2.5:1) to investigate the c…

astro-ph.GA201741 cited

Galaxies in the Illustris simulation as seen by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey - I: Bulge+disc decompositions, methods, and biases

Connor Bottrell, Paul Torrey, Luc Simard +1

We present an image-based method for comparing the structural properties of galaxies produced in hydrodynamical simulations to real galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The ke…

astro-ph.GA201694 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2016201 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA201614 cited

The Califa and Hipass velocity function for all morphological galaxy types

S. Bekeraitė, C. J. Walcher, L. Wisotzki +17

The velocity function is a fundamental observable statistic of the galaxy population, similarly impor- tant as the luminosity function, but much more difficult to measure. In this…