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20142026
most citedThe EAGLE project: Simulating the evolution and assembly of galaxies and their environments

3.7k citations · 9.9k across the 78 of their papers we have counts for

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80 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Galactic Morpholography: Linking present-day galaxy compactness to assembly history and relic formation in the COLIBRE simulations

Maximilian Zemsch, Claudia D. P. Lagos, Chiara Spiniello +11

Compactness is widely used to identify candidate relic galaxies, the largely untouched survivors of the first compact massive galaxies. Yet relicness is an evolutionary rather than…

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 atomic multiphase interstellar medium of galaxies in the COLIBRE simulations

Moa Huppenkothen, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Joop Schaye +7

We analyse the neutral ISM of galaxies at redshift z=0 in the COLIBRE hydrodynamical simulations and investigate the conditions under which these two gas phases coexist in a narrow…

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

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

The galaxy ultraviolet luminosity function from to in the COLIBRE simulations

Shengdong Lu, Carlos S. Frenk, Cedric G. Lacey +17

JWST has enabled the detection of galaxies in the earliest stages of cosmic history. We compare the ultraviolet luminosity functions (UVLFs) at redshifts predicted by a se…

astro-ph.GA2026

Galaxy luminosity functions from far-UV to submillimetre at in the COLIBRE simulations

Shengdong Lu, Carlos S. Frenk, Cedric G. Lacey +15

We present predictions from the COLIBRE cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation for the present-day galaxy luminosity functions (LFs) at wavelengths ranging fro…

astro-ph.GA2026

Unveiling the population of massive quenched galaxies at in the COLIBRE simulations - II. The role of AGN feedback and environment on their emergence

Ángel Chandro-Gómez, Claudia del P. Lagos, Chris Power +16

Early () Massive (), Quenched Galaxies (MQGs) challenge current galaxy formation models. In this series, we study these…

astro-ph.GA2026

The morphologies of present-day galaxies in the COLIBRE simulations

Victor J. Forouhar Moreno, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller +9

The diversity of galaxy morphologies and their relations with galaxy and halo properties is fundamental to understanding galaxy formation. Cosmological simulations of representativ…

astro-ph.GA2026

The tidal evolution of satellite galaxies in cosmological simulations: insights from COLIBRE

Feihong He, Jiaxin Han, Joop Schaye +12

We investigate the co-evolution of the stellar and dark matter mass of satellite galaxies using the COLIBRE cosmological hydrodynamical simulations with subhaloes resolved by the h…

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.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★ 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★ 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…

physics.ed-ph2025★ 1 cited

A case study of translating sonifications across musical cultures for an educational application

Chris M. Harrison, James W. Trayford, Arron George +4

Sonification can be part of educational resources that can be accessible to those who prefer, or require, non-visual learning methods. Furthermore, sonification can contribute to a…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 10 cited

Hybrid-chimes: A model for radiative cooling and the abundances of ions and molecules in simulations of galaxy formation

Sylvia Ploeckinger, Alexander J. Richings, Joop Schaye +3

Radiative processes play a pivotal role in shaping the thermal and chemical states of gas across diverse astrophysical environments, from the interstellar medium (ISM) to the inter…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 11 cited

Modelling the evolution and influence of dust in cosmological simulations that include the cold phase of the interstellar medium

James W. Trayford, Joop Schaye, Camila Correa +7

While marginal in mass terms, dust grains play an outsized role in both the physics and observation of the interstellar medium (ISM). However, explicit modelling of this ISM consti…

astro-ph.IM2025

STRAUSS: Sonification Tools & Resources for Analysis Using Sound Synthesis

James W. Trayford, Samantha Youles, Chris Harrison +2

Sonification, or conveying data using non-verbal audio, is a relatively niche but growing approach for presenting data across multiple specialist domains including astronomy, clima…