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20132026
most citedThe EAGLE project: Simulating the evolution and assembly of galaxies and their environments

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215 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Atomic hydrogen in galaxies in the COLIBRE simulations

Kyle A. Oman, Ruby J. Wright, Andrea Gebek +12

We present an overview of the properties of atomic hydrogen (HI) in galaxies at redshift in the COLIBRE cosmological galaxy formation simulations. COLIBRE directly simulates…

astro-ph.GA2026

The origin of the stellar mass-size relation of satellite galaxies in the COLIBRE simulations

Bruno M. Celiz, Julio F. Navarro, Joop Schaye +9

We study the stellar mass-size relation of satellite galaxies in the COLIBRE suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. Satellites deviate from the relation that holds for c…

astro-ph.GA2026

The descendants of JWST galaxies in the COLIBRE simulations

Xu Zhao, Carlos S. Frenk, Andrew Pontzen +9

Recent observations with JWST have revealed a population of UV-bright galaxies at . This discovery naturally raises the question: what do such early galaxies evolve in…

astro-ph.GA2026

The effect of galaxy interactions on star formation rates in the COLIBRE simulations

Quinten W. E. van Zegveld, Evgenii Chaikin, Joop Schaye +8

Observations and theory indicate that galaxy interactions enhance star formation rates (SFRs). However, the degree of enhancement and its dependence on the properties of the intera…

astro-ph.GA2026

The influence of feedback on the baryonic content of haloes in the COLIBRE simulations

Jonathan J. Davies, Joop Schaye, Filip Huško +7

We present predictions for the relation between the halo gas mass fraction and halo mass, , from the COLIBRE cosmological simulations of galaxy formation…

astro-ph.GA2026

The evolution of galaxy dust scaling relations in the COLIBRE simulations

Aswin P. Vijayan, James W. Trayford, Joop Schaye +11

We present dust scaling relations across cosmic time () for galaxies in the COLIBRE cosmological simulations. COLIBRE self-consistently tracks dust production, grow…

astro-ph.GA2026

Cosmological simulations of the high-redshift galaxy population adopting a variable stellar initial mass function

Anna Durrant, Robert A. Crain, Cedric G. Lacey +15

JWST surveys reveal a greater space density of high-redshift UV-bright galaxies than predicted by conventional galaxy formation models. We present results from a cMpc cosmo…

astro-ph.GA2026

The COLIBRE-SKIRT pipeline: Calibration-free dust radiative transfer postprocessing for cosmological simulations

Andrea Gebek, Maarten Baes, Nick Andreadis +16

Context. Three-dimensional dust radiative transfer provides a powerful framework to connect cosmological galaxy simulations to multiwavelength observations. Until recently, in larg…

astro-ph.GA2026

A subgrid model for chemical enrichment in cosmological simulations

Camila A. Correa, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller +6

We present the modules for stellar nucleosynthesis, stellar mass loss, and turbulent diffusion of the new COLIBRE subgrid model for cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galax…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

The evolution of the sizes and angular momentum content of galaxies in the COLIBRE simulations

Aaron D. Ludlow, Katy L. Proctor, Joop Schaye +12

We analyse the sizes and specific angular momentum content of galaxies in the Colibre cosmological hydrodynamical simulations spanning two orders of magnitude in mass resolution. W…

astro-ph.CO2026

Unifying cluster and galaxy cosmology analyses using the galaxy-halo connection

Shulei Cao, Hao-Yi Wu, Andrés N. Salcedo +3

Galaxies and galaxy clusters trace the same cosmic density field, but their statistics have been modeled separately in cosmological analyses. We present a unified, simulation-based…

astro-ph.CO2026

Cosmological back-reaction of baryons on dark matter in the CAMELS simulations

Matthew Gebhardt, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Shy Genel +13

Baryonic processes such as radiative cooling and feedback from massive stars and active galactic nuclei (AGN) directly redistribute baryons in the Universe but also indirectly redi…

astro-ph.GA2026

The importance of super-Eddington black hole accretion for the emergence of massive quiescent galaxies at high redshift

Evgenii Chaikin, Joop Schaye, Filip Huško +3

Recent JWST observations indicate that massive quiescent galaxies (stellar mass ) at high redshift () are more abundant than pred…

astro-ph.GA2025

Unveiling the population of massive quenched galaxies at in the COLIBRE simulations - I. Galaxy demographics

Ángel Chandro-Gómez, Claudia del P. Lagos, Chris Power +14

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a substantial population of Massive (), Quenched Galaxies (MQGs) in the early Universe ($z \ge…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Kennicutt-Schmidt relation of galaxies over 13 billion years in the COLIBRE hydrodynamical simulations

Claudia del P. Lagos, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller +16

We investigate the correlation between star formation rate (SFR) surface density and gas surface density (known as the Kennicutt-Schmidt, KS, relation) at kiloparsec (kpc) scales a…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Dynamical disequilibrium in dwarf galaxies: rethinking gas dynamics, rotation curves, and dark matter inference

Diego Dado, Kyle A. Oman, Katherine E. Harborne +9

We quantify departures from hydrodynamical and centrifugal equilibrium in the gas discs of low-mass () galaxies from the COLIBR…

astro-ph.CO2025

Self-consistent secondary cosmic microwave background anisotropies and extragalactic foregrounds in the FLAMINGO simulations

Tianyi Yang, Ian G. McCarthy, Fiona McCarthy +6

Secondary anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) contain information that can be used to test both cosmological models and models of galaxy formation. Starting from…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Ripples in the baryon to dark matter ratio in CDM: implications for galaxy formation

Owen Jessop, Adrian Jenkins, Andrew Pontzen +3

We use the FLAMINGO galaxy formation model to quantify the impact of baryon-CDM isocurvature perturbations on galaxy formation in CDM. In linear theory, these perturbations repr…

astro-ph.CO2025

Inferring the Impacts of Baryonic Feedback from Kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Cross-Correlations

Alex Laguë, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Josh Borrow +4

The complex processes of baryonic feedback associated with galaxy evolution are still poorly understood, and their impact on the clustering of matter on small scales remains diffic…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Gravitational potential drives the concentration dependence of the stellar mass-halo mass relation

Kai Wang, Joop Schaye, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay +8

We investigate the origin of the scatter in the stellar mass-halo mass (SMHM) relation using the \colibre cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. At fixed halo mass, we find a cle…

astro-ph.CO2025

The kinetic Sunyaev Zeldovich effect as a benchmark for AGN feedback models in hydrodynamical simulations: insights from DESI + ACT

Leah Bigwood, Masaya Yamamoto, Jared Siegel +7

Baryonic feedback remains one of the largest uncertainties in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, with different prescriptions producing divergent predictions for the fraction…

astro-ph.CO2025

FLAMINGO: Baryonic effects on the weak lensing scattering transform

Mariia Marinichenko, Marcel P. van Daalen, Elena Sellentin +3

The scattering transform is a wavelet-based statistic capable of capturing non-Gaussian features in weak lensing (WL) convergence maps and has been proven to tighten cosmological p…

astro-ph.GA2025

The luminosity function and clustering of bright quasars in the FLAMINGO cosmological simulations

Boyi Ding, Elia Pizzati, Joop Schaye +3

Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations are essential tools for studying the formation and evolution of galaxies and their central supermassive black holes. While they reproduce ma…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Luminosity-Dependent Assembly Bias of Central Galaxies from Weak Lensing and Clustering

Zhenjie Liu, Hironao Miyatake, Joop Schaye +3

Assembly bias, which is the variation in halo clustering at fixed mass driven by formation history, has long been predicted by numerical simulations but remains difficult to confir…