The connection between galaxies and their dark matter halos

RH Wechsler, JL Tinker - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
In our modern understanding of galaxy formation, every galaxy forms within a dark matter
halo. The formation and growth of galaxies over time is connected to the growth of the halos …

Theoretical challenges in galaxy formation

T Naab, JP Ostriker - Annual review of astronomy and …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Numerical simulations have become a major tool for understanding galaxy formation and
evolution. Over the decades the field has made significant progress. It is now possible to …

UniverseMachine: The correlation between galaxy growth and dark matter halo assembly from z = 0−10

P Behroozi, RH Wechsler, AP Hearin… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present a method to flexibly and self-consistently determine individual galaxies' star
formation rates (SFRs) from their host haloes' potential well depths, assembly histories, and …

FIREbox: simulating galaxies at high dynamic range in a cosmological volume

R Feldmann, E Quataert… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We introduce a suite of cosmological volume simulations to study the evolution of galaxies
as part of the Feedback in Realistic Environments project. FIREbox, the principal simulation …

corrfunc – a suite of blazing fast correlation functions on the CPU

M Sinha, LH Garrison - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The two-point correlation function (2PCF) is the most widely used tool for quantifying the
spatial distribution of galaxies. Since the distribution of galaxies is determined by galaxy …

The confinement of star-forming galaxies into a main sequence through episodes of gas compaction, depletion and replenishment

S Tacchella, A Dekel, CM Carollo… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Using cosmological simulations, we address the properties of high-redshift star-forming
galaxies (SFGs) across their main sequence (MS) in the plane of star formation rate (SFR) …

Large-scale dark matter simulations

RE Angulo, O Hahn - Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics, 2022 - Springer
We review the field of collisionless numerical simulations for the large-scale structure of the
Universe. We start by providing the main set of equations solved by these simulations and …

Evolution of density profiles in high-z galaxies: compaction and quenching inside-out

S Tacchella, A Dekel, CM Carollo… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Using cosmological simulations, we address the interplay between structure and star
formation in high-redshift galaxies via the evolution of surface density profiles. Our sample …

Map** stellar content to dark matter haloes using galaxy clustering and galaxy–galaxy lensing in the SDSS DR7

Y Zu, R Mandelbaum - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The map** between the distributions of the observed galaxy stellar mass and the
underlying dark matter haloes provides the crucial link from theories of large-scale structure …

Is the dark-matter halo spin a predictor of galaxy spin and size?

F Jiang, A Dekel, O Kneller, S Lapiner… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The similarity between the distributions of spins for galaxies (λgal) and for dark-matter
haloes (λhalo), indicated both by simulations and observations, is naively interpreted as a …