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

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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.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.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.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.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.GA2025★ 7 cited

Non-explosive pre-supernova feedback in the COLIBRE model of galaxy formation

Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Joop Schaye +7

We present the implementation and testing of a subgrid non-explosive pre-supernova (NEPS) feedback module for the COLIBRE model of galaxy formation. The NEPS module incorporates th…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

The evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function and star formation rates in the COLIBRE simulations from redshift 17 to 0

Evgenii Chaikin, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller +7

We investigate the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function (GSMF) and star formation rates (SFRs) across cosmic time in the COLIBRE simulations of galaxy formation. COLIBRE i…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

A hybrid active galactic nucleus feedback model with spinning black holes, winds and jets

Filip Huško, Cedric G. Lacey, Joop Schaye +6

We present a hybrid active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback model that features three accretion disc states (the thick, thin, and slim discs at low, moderate, and super-Eddington ac…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 6 cited

COLIBRE: calibrating subgrid feedback in cosmological simulations that include a cold gas phase

Evgenii Chaikin, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller +17

We present the calibration of stellar and active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback in the subgrid model for the new COLIBRE hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation. COLIBRE di…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 26 cited

The COLIBRE project: cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation and evolution

Joop Schaye, Evgenii Chaikin, Matthieu Schaller +18

We present the COLIBRE galaxy formation model and the COLIBRE suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. COLIBRE includes new models for radiative cooling, dust grains, star…

astro-ph.GA2025

SPARCS -- combining radiation hydrodynamics with non-equilibrium metal chemistry in the SWIFT astrophysical code

Tsang Keung Chan, Alexander J. Richings, Tom Theuns +3

We present SPARCS, which combines the moment-based radiative transfer method SPH-M1RT with the non-equilibrium metal chemistry solver CHIMES in the modern highly-parallel astrophys…

astro-ph.GA2025

Mass Proxy Quality of Massive Halo Properties in the IllustrisTNG and FLAMINGO Simulations: I. Hot Gas

Eddie Aljamal, August E. Evrard, Arya Farahi +5

We examine scale and redshift dependence of mass-property relations (MPRs) for five hot gas properties of two large group- and cluster-scale halo samples realized by the IllustrisT…