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20172026
most citedA definitive merger-AGN connection at z~0 with CFIS: mergers have an excess of AGN and AGN hosts are more frequently disturbed

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astro-ph.GA2026

Widespread Inflows Reveal Baryonic Cycling in Star-forming and Quiescent Galaxies

Hassen M. Yesuf, Ravi Joshi, Yuxuan Zou +8

Cool-gas inflows, required to sustain star formation, have been fundamental in simulations yet remained observationally elusive. Using DESI spectroscopy of ~30,000 galaxies, we ide…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Structural Abundance Crisis of Massive Galaxies in Current Cosmological Simulations

Hassen M. Yesuf, Connor Bottrell, Luis C. Ho +5

The internal structure of galaxies encodes the complex baryon cycle driven by gas accretion, star formation, and feedback, together with secular evolution and environmentally drive…

astro-ph.GA2026

Formation of globular cluster-rich ultra-diffuse galaxies through mergers

Truman Tapia, Hidenori Matsui, Kenji Bekki +6

We use high-resolution, idealized hydrodynamic simulations of gas-rich dwarf-galaxy mergers to test whether such encounters can form ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) with globular clu…

astro-ph.HE2026

Merger Driven or Internal Evolution? A New Morphological Study of Tidal Disruption Event Host Galaxies

Janet N. Y. Chang, Connor Bottrell, Lixin Dai +7

The host galaxies of tidal disruption events (TDEs) show enhanced central stellar concentration and are preferentially found in poststarburst and green valley populations. This con…

astro-ph.GA2026

ERGO-ML: The assembly histories of HSC galaxy images via invertible neural networks, contrastive learning, and cosmological simulations

Lukas Eisert, Connor Bottrell, Annalisa Pillepich +4

In this paper of ERGO-ML (Extracting Reality from Galaxy Observables with Machine Learning), we develop a model that infers the merger/assembly histories of galaxies directly from…

astro-ph.GA2025

Interacting galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulations - IX: Mini mergers trigger AGN in cosmological simulations

Shoshannah Byrne-Mamahit, Sara L. Ellison, David R. Patton +3

Galaxy mergers are transformative events that can cause gaseous inflows capable of triggering active galactic nuclei (AGN). Previous studies of AGN in simulations have mainly focus…