On the origin of the chemical bimodality of disc stars: a tale of merger and migration

T Buck - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The Milky Way's (MW) stellar disc exhibits a bimodality in the [Fe/H] versus
[α/Fe] plane, showing a distinct high-and low-α sequences whose origin is still under debate …

NIHAO-UHD: the properties of MW-like stellar discs in high-resolution cosmological simulations

T Buck, A Obreja, AV Macciò, I Minchev… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Simulating thin and extended galactic discs has long been a challenge in computational
astrophysics. We introduce the NIHAO-UHD suite of cosmological hydrodynamical …

HELLO project: high-z evolution of large and luminous objects

S Waterval, AV Macciò, T Buck, A Obreja… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present the High-z Evolution of Large and Luminous Objects (HELLO) project, a set of
high-resolution cosmological simulations aimed to study Milky Way analogues () at high …

The impact of early massive mergers on the chemical evolution of Milky Way-like galaxies: insights from NIHAO-UHD simulations

T Buck, A Obreja, B Ratcliffe, Y Lu… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Recent observations of the Milky Way (MW) found an unexpected steepening of the star-
forming gas metallicity gradient around the time of the Gaia–Sausage–Enceladus (GSE) …

The challenge of simultaneously matching the observed diversity of chemical abundance patterns in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations

T Buck, J Rybizki, S Buder, A Obreja… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
With the advent of large spectroscopic surveys the amount of high quality chemodynamical
data in the Milky Way (MW) increased tremendously. Accurately and correctly capturing and …

thesan-hr: how does reionization impact early galaxy evolution?

J Borrow, R Kannan, E Garaldi, A Smith… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The feedback loop between the galaxies producing the background radiation field for
reionization and their growth is crucial, particularly for low-mass haloes. Despite this, the …

AGN radiation imprints on the circumgalactic medium of massive galaxies

A Obreja, F Arrigoni Battaia, AV Macciò… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in cosmological simulations generate explosive feedback that
regulates star formation in massive galaxies, modifying the gas phase structure out to large …

Empirically motivated early feedback: momentum input by stellar feedback in galaxy simulations inferred through observations

BW Keller, JMD Kruijssen… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present a novel method for including the effects of early (pre-supernova) feedback in
simulations of galaxy evolution. Rather than building a model which attempts to match …

Simulated [CII] emission in high-z star-forming galaxies

N Muñoz-Elgueta, FA Battaia, G Kauffmann… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Extended [CII] emission on tens of kiloparsecs, also known as a [CII] halo, is currently being
reported around z∼ 4− 6 star-forming galaxies, especially thanks to the statistics of the …

The effect of local photoionization on the galaxy properties and the circumgalactic medium in simulations of Milky Way-sized galaxies

B Zhu, V Springel - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In this study, we investigate the impact of local stellar radiation in cosmological zoom
simulations of the formation of Milky Way-sized galaxies. We include the radiation field as an …