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Angular momentum evolution of galaxies over the past 10-Gyr: A MUSE and KMOS dynamical survey of 400 star-forming galaxies from z=0.3-1.7
Mark Swinbank, Chris Harrison, James Trayford +23
We present a MUSE and KMOS dynamical study 405 star-forming galaxies at redshift z=0.28-1.65 (median redshift z=0.84). Our sample are representative of star-forming, main-sequence…
A chronicle of galaxy mass assembly in the EAGLE simulation
Yan Qu, John C. Helly, Richard G. Bower +8
We analyse the mass assembly of central galaxies in the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulations. We build merger trees to connect galaxies to their progenitors at different redshifts and…
Being WISE II: Reducing the Influence of Star Formation History on the Mass-to-Light Ratio of Quiescent Galaxies
Mark A. Norris, Glenn Van de Ven, Eva Schinnerer +8
Stellar population synthesis models can now reproduce the photometry of old stellar systems (age 2 Gyr) in the near-infrared (NIR) bands at 3.4 and 4.6m (WISE W1 W2 or…
The link between the assembly of the inner dark matter halo and the angular momentum evolution of galaxies in the EAGLE simulation
Jesus Zavala, Carlos S. Frenk, Richard Bower +6
We explore the co-evolution of the specific angular momentum of dark matter haloes and the cold baryons that comprise the galaxies within. We study over two thousand central galaxi…
Galaxies in the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation and in the Durham and Munich semi-analytical models
Quan Guo, Violeta Gonzalez-Perez, Qi Guo +12
We compare global predictions from the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation, and two semi-analytic (SA) models of galaxy formation, L-GALAXIES and GALFORM. All three models include the…
The distribution of atomic hydrogen in EAGLE galaxies: morphologies, profiles, and HI holes
Yannick M. Bahe, Robert A. Crain, Guinevere Kauffmann +8
We compare the mass and internal distribution of atomic hydrogen (HI) in 2200 present-day central galaxies with M_star > 10^10 M_Sun from the 100 Mpc EAGLE Reference simulation to…
The APOSTLE simulations: solutions to the Local Group's cosmic puzzles
Till Sawala, Carlos S. Frenk, Azadeh Fattahi +13
The Local Group of galaxies offer some of the most discriminating tests of models of cosmic structure formation. For example, observations of the Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda satel…
Size evolution of normal and compact galaxies in the EAGLE simulation
M. Furlong, R. G. Bower, R. A. Crain +7
We present the evolution of galaxy sizes, from redshift 2 to 0, for actively star forming and passive galaxies in the cosmological hydrodynamical 1003 cMpc3 simulation of the EAGLE…
The fundamental plane of star formation in galaxies revealed by the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulations
Claudia del P. Lagos, Tom Theuns, Joop Schaye +6
We investigate correlations between different physical properties of star-forming galaxies in the "Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments" (EAGLE) cosmological h…
The EAGLE simulations of galaxy formation: public release of halo and galaxy catalogues
Stuart McAlpine, John C. Helly, Matthieu Schaller +16
We present the public data release of halo and galaxy catalogues extracted from the EAGLE suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation. These simulations we…
The EAGLE simulations of galaxy formation: the importance of the hydrodynamics scheme
Matthieu Schaller, Claudio Dalla Vecchia, Joop Schaye +5
We present results from a subset of simulations from the "Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments" (EAGLE) suite in which the formulation of the hydrodynamics sch…
Recycled stellar ejecta as fuel for star formation and implications for the origin of the galaxy mass-metallicity relation
Marijke C. Segers, Robert A. Crain, Joop Schaye +4
We use cosmological, hydrodynamical simulations from the EAGLE and OWLS projects to assess the significance of recycled stellar ejecta as fuel for star formation. The fractional co…
Intrinsic alignments of galaxies in the EAGLE and cosmo-OWLS simulations
Marco Velliscig, Marcello Cacciato, Joop Schaye +8
We report results for the alignments of galaxies in the EAGLE and cosmo-OWLS simulations as a function of galaxy separation and halo mass. The combination of these hydro-cosmologic…
The APOSTLE project: Local Group kinematic mass constraints and simulation candidate selection
Azadeh Fattahi, Julio F. Navarro, Till Sawala +8
We use a large sample of isolated dark matter halo pairs drawn from cosmological N-body simulations to identify candidate systems whose kinematics match that of the Local Group of…
Subhalo abundance matching and assembly bias in the EAGLE simulation
Jonás Chaves-Montero, Raul E. Angulo, Joop Schaye +4
Subhalo abundance matching (SHAM) is a widely-used method to connect galaxies with dark matter structures in numerical simulations. SHAM predictions agree remarkably well with obse…
Colours and luminosities of z=0.1 simulated galaxies in the EAGLE simulations
James W. Trayford, Tom Theuns, Richard G. Bower +7
We calculate the colours and luminosities of redshift z = 0.1 galaxies from the EAGLE simulation suite using the GALAXEV population synthesis models. We take into account obscurati…
The alignment and shape of dark matter, stellar, and hot gas distributions in the EAGLE and cosmo-OWLS simulations
Marco Velliscig, Marcello Cacciato, Joop Schaye +9
We report the alignment and shape of dark matter, stellar, and hot gas distributions in the EAGLE and cosmo-OWLS simulations. The combination of these state-of-the-art hydro-cosmol…
The unexpected diversity of dwarf galaxy rotation curves
Kyle A. Oman, Julio F. Navarro, Azadeh Fattahi +9
We examine the circular velocity profiles of galaxies in ΛCDM cosmological hydrodynamical simulations from the EAGLE and LOCAL GROUPS projects and compare them with a compilation o…
The distribution of neutral hydrogen around high-redshift galaxies and quasars in the EAGLE simulation
Alireza Rahmati, Joop Schaye, Richard G. Bower +4
The observed high covering fractions of neutral hydrogen (HI) with column densities above around Lyman-Break Galaxies (LBGs) and bright quasars at redsh…
Molecular hydrogen abundances of galaxies in the EAGLE simulations
Claudia del P. Lagos, Robert A. Crain, Joop Schaye +8
We investigate the abundance of galactic molecular hydrogen (H) in the "Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments" (EAGLE) cosmological hydrodynamic simulations…
The EAGLE simulations of galaxy formation: calibration of subgrid physics and model variations
Robert A. Crain, Joop Schaye, Richard G. Bower +11
We present results from thirteen cosmological simulations that explore the parameter space of the "Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments" (EAGLE) simulation pro…
Local Group galaxies emerge from the dark
Till Sawala, Carlos S. Frenk, Azadeh Fattahi +13
The "Lambda Cold Dark Matter" (LCDM) model of cosmic structure formation is eminently falsifiable: once its parameters are fixed on large scales, it becomes testable in the nearby…
Evolution of galaxy stellar masses and star formation rates in the EAGLE simulations
M. Furlong, R. G. Bower, T. Theuns +9
We investigate the evolution of galaxy masses and star formation rates in the Evolution and Assembly of Galaxies and their Environment (EAGLE) simulations. These comprise a suite o…
Baryon effects on the internal structure of LCDM halos in the EAGLE simulations
Matthieu Schaller, Carlos S. Frenk, Richard G. Bower +7
We investigate the internal structure and density profiles of halos of mass in the Evolution and Assembly of Galaxies and their Environment (EAGLE) simula…