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most citedNIHAO project I: Reproducing the inefficiency of galaxy formation across cosmic time with a large sample of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations

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39 papers

astro-ph.SR2023★ 33 cited

A Unified Model for Bipolar Outflows from Young Stars: Kinematic Signatures of Jets, Winds, and Their Magnetic Interplay with the Ambient Toroids

Hsien Shang, Chun-Fan Liu, Ruben Krasnopolsky +1

Kinematic signatures of the jet, winds, multicavities, and episodic shells arising in the unified model of bipolar outflows developed in Shang et al.\ (2020), in which an outflow f…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 12 cited

A White Dwarf-Main Sequence Binary Unveiled by Time-Domain Observations from LAMOST and TESS

Ling-Lin Zheng, Wei-Min Gu, Mouyuan Sun +16

We report a single-lined white dwarf-main sequence binary system, LAMOST J172900.17+652952.8, which is discovered by LAMOST's medium resolution time-domain surveys. The radial velo…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 32 cited

The Pan-Pacific Planet Search. VIII. Complete results and the occurrence rate of planets around low-luminosity giants

Robert A. Wittenmyer, R. P. Butler, Jonathan Horner +6

Our knowledge of the populations and occurrence rates of planets orbiting evolved intermediate-mass stars lags behind that for solar-type stars by at least a decade. Some radial ve…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 10 cited

Drivers of disc tilting I: Correlations and possible drivers for Milky Way analogues

Samuel W. F. Earp, Victor P. Debattista, Andrea V. Macciò +3

The direction of the spin vectors of disk galaxies change over time. We present the tilting rate of a sample of galaxies in the NIHAO suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulatio…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 38 cited

Metal-poor stars observed with the automated planet finder telescope. I. Discovery of five carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars from LAMOST

Mohammad K. Mardini, Haining Li, Vinicius M. Placco +6

We report on the discovery of five carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars in the metallicity range of [Fe/H] . These stars were selected from the LAMOST DR3 low-res…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 19 cited

Angular momentum of galaxies and their local analogues with adaptive optics

Sarah M. Sweet, Deanne B. Fisher, Giulia Savorgnan +9

We present stellar specific angular momentum measurements of two galaxies in the KGES sample and 12 DYNAMO analogues of high-redshift galaxies. We com…

astro-ph.GA2019

Size-scaling of clump instabilities in turbulent, feedback regulated disks

Kamran Ali, Danail Obreschkow, Liang Wang +5

We explore the scaling between the size of star-forming clumps and rotational support in massively star-forming galactic disks. The analysis relies on simulations of a clumpy galax…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 13 cited

Ejection History of the IRAS 04166+2706 Molecular Jet

Liang-Yao Wang, Hsien Shang, Tzu-Yang Chiang

The high-velocity molecular jet driven by Class 0 protostar IRAS 04166+2706 exhibits a unique saw-tooth velocity pattern. It consists of a series of well-aligned symmetric knots wi…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 11 cited

Angular momentum evolution of bulge stars in disc galaxies in NIHAO

Liang Wang, Danail Obreschkow, Claudia del P. Lagos +6

We study the origin of bulge stars and their angular momentum (AM) evolution in 10 spiral galaxies with baryonic masses above M in the NIHAO galaxy formation simul…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 2 cited

Spatially-resolved galaxy angular momentum

Sarah M. Sweet, Deanne B. Fisher, Karl Glazebrook +3

The total specific angular momentum j of a galaxy disk is matched with that of its dark matter halo, but the distributions are different, in that there is a lack of both low- and h…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 10 cited

Dynamic equilibrium sets atomic content of galaxies across cosmic time

Liang Wang, Danail Obreschkow, Claudia D. P. Lagos +6

We analyze 88 independent high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations of disk galaxies in the NIHAO simulations suite to explore the connection between the atomic gas fraction…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 1 cited

Giant planets around FGK stars form probably through core accretion

Wei Wang, Liang Wang, Xiang Li +2

We present a statistical study of the planet-metallicity (P-M) correlation, by comparing the 744 stars with candidate planets (SWPs) in the Kepler field which have been observed wi…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 41 cited

Introducing galactic structure finder: the multiple stellar kinematic structures of a simulated Milky Way mass galaxy

Aura Obreja, Andrea V. Macciò, Benjamin Moster +4

We present the first results of applying Gaussian Mixture Models in the stellar kinematic space of normalized angular momentum and binding energy on NIHAO high resolution galaxies…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 28 cited

Revisiting the stellar mass -- angular momentum -- morphology relation: extension to higher bulge fraction, and the effect of bulge type

Sarah M. Sweet, David Fisher, Karl Glazebrook +3

We present the relation between stellar specific angular momentum , stellar mass , and bulge-to-total light ratio for THINGS, CALIFA and Romanowsky \& Fall datasets,…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 39 cited

NIHAO XVI: The properties and evolution of kinematically selected discs, bulges and stellar haloes

Aura Obreja, Aaron A. Dutton, Andrea V. Macciò +6

We use 25 simulated galaxies from the NIHAO project to define and characterize a variety of kinematic stellar structures: thin and thick discs, large scale single discs, classical…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 94 cited

Chaos and Variance in Galaxy Formation

B. W. Keller, J. W. Wadsley, L. Wang +1

The evolution of galaxies is governed by equations with chaotic solutions: gravity and compressible hydrodynamics. While this micro-scale chaos and stochasticity has been well stud…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 59 cited

NIHAO XII: galactic uniformity in a ΛCDM universe

Aaron A. Dutton, Aura Obreja, Liang Wang +7

We use a sample of 83 high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations and a semi-analytic model (SAM) to study the stochasticity of galaxy formation in haloes ranging from dwarf t…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 78 cited

NIHAO X: Reconciling the local galaxy velocity function with Cold Dark Matter via mock HI observations

Andrea V. Macciò, Silviu M. Udrescu, Aaron A. Dutton +4

We used 87 high resolution hydrodynamical cosmological simulations from the NIHAO suite to investigate the relation between the maximum circular velocity (Vmax) of a dark matter ha…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 102 cited

NIHAO IX: the role of gas inflows and outflows in driving the contraction and expansion of cold dark matter haloes

Aaron A. Dutton, Andrea V. Macciò, Avishai Dekel +7

We use ~100 cosmological galaxy formation zoom-in simulations using the smoothed particle hydrodynamics code {\sc gasoline} to study the effect of baryonic processes on the mass pr…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 20 cited

The Pan-Pacific Planet Search V. Fundamental Parameters for 164 Evolved Stars

Robert A. Wittenmyer, Fan Liu, Liang Wang +3

We present spectroscopic stellar parameters for the complete target list of 164 evolved stars from the Pan-Pacific Planet Search, a five-year radial velocity campaign using the 3.9…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 23 cited

Calibration of LAMOST Stellar Surface Gravities Using the Kepler Asteroseismic Data

Liang Wang, Wei Wang, Yue Wu +7

Asteroseismology is a powerful tool to precisely determine the evolutionary status and fundamental properties of stars. With the unprecedented precision and nearly continuous photo…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 69 cited

NIHAO VI. The hidden discs of simulated galaxies

A. Obreja, G. S. Stinson, A. A. Dutton +3

Detailed studies of galaxy formation require clear definitions of the structural components of galaxies. Precisely defined components also enable better comparisons between observa…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 69 cited

NIHAO VIII: Circum-galactic medium and outflows - The puzzles of HI and OVI gas distributions

Thales A. Gutcke, Greg S. Stinson, Andrea V. Macciò +2

We study the hot and cold circum-galactic medium (CGM) of 86 galaxies of the cosmological, hydrodynamical simulation suite NIHAO. NIHAO allows a study of how the CGM varies a…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 20 cited

A Pair of Giant Planets around the Evolved Intermediate-Mass Star HD 47366: Multiple Circular Orbits or a Mutually Retrograde Configuration

Bun'ei Sato, Liang Wang, Yu-Juan Liu +19

We report the detection of a double planetary system around the evolved intermediate-mass star HD 47366 from precise radial-velocity measurements at Okayama Astrophysical Observato…