Key physical processes in the circumgalactic medium

CA Faucher-Giguère, SP Oh - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Spurred by rich, multiwavelength observations and enabled by new simulations, ranging
from cosmological to subparsec scales, the past decade has seen major theoretical …

Challenges for ΛCDM: An update

L Perivolaropoulos, F Skara - New Astronomy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
A number of challenges to the standard Λ CDM model have been emerging during the past
few years as the accuracy of cosmological observations improves. In this review we discuss …

Enhanced Subkiloparsec-scale Star Formation: Results from a JWST Size Analysis of 341 Galaxies at 5< z< 14

T Morishita, M Stiavelli, RR Chary, M Trenti… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Enhanced Subkiloparsec-scale Star Formation: Results from a JWST Size Analysis of 341
Galaxies at 5 < z < 14 - IOPscience Skip to content IOP Science homeAccessibility Help Search …

The assembly of the first massive black holes

K Inayoshi, E Visbal, Z Haiman - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The existence of∼ 109M⊙ supermassive black holes (SMBHs) within the first billion years
of the Universe has stimulated numerous ideas for the prompt formation and rapid growth of …

Star-forming galaxies at cosmic noon

NM Förster Schreiber, S Wuyts - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Ever deeper and wider look-back surveys have led to a fairly robust outline of the cosmic
star-formation history, which culminated around; this period is often nicknamed “cosmic …

Evolution of the Size–Mass Relation of Star-forming Galaxies Since z= 5.5 Revealed by CEERS

E Ward, A de la Vega, B Mobasher… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We combine deep imaging data from the CEERS early release JWST survey and Hubble
Space Telescope imaging from CANDELS to examine the size–mass relation of star-forming …

Early galaxy formation and its large-scale effects

P Dayal, A Ferrara - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Galaxy formation is at the heart of our understanding of cosmic evolution. Although there is a
consensus that galaxies emerged from the expanding matter background by gravitational …

The Auriga Project: the properties and formation mechanisms of disc galaxies across cosmic time

RJJ Grand, FA Gómez, F Marinacci… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We introduce a suite of 30 cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical zoom simulations of the
formation of galaxies in isolated Milky Way mass dark haloes. These were carried out with …

Simulations predict intermediate-mass black hole formation in globular clusters

MS Fujii, L Wang, A Tanikawa, Y Hirai, TR Saitoh - Science, 2024 - science.org
The formation process of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), defined as those between
100 and 105 solar masses (M⊙), is debated. One potential origin is the growth of less …

Wet compaction to a blue nugget: a critical phase in galaxy evolution

S Lapiner, A Dekel, J Freundlich… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We utilize high-resolution cosmological simulations to reveal that high-redshift galaxies tend
to undergo a robust 'wet compaction'event when near a 'golden'stellar mass of. This is a …