Hydrodynamical simulations of the galaxy population: enduring successes and outstanding challenges

RA Crain, F van de Voort - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
We review the progress in modeling the galaxy population in hydrodynamical simulations of
the ΛCDM cosmogony. State-of-the-art simulations now broadly reproduce the observed …

Simulating galaxy formation with the IllustrisTNG model

A Pillepich, V Springel, D Nelson… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We introduce an updated physical model to simulate the formation and evolution of galaxies
in cosmological, large-scale gravity+ magnetohydrodynamical simulations with the moving …

First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: the galaxy colour bimodality

D Nelson, A Pillepich, V Springel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We introduce the first two simulations of the IllustrisTNG project, a next generation of
cosmological magnetohydrodynamical simulations, focusing on the optical colours of …

First results from the TNG50 simulation: the evolution of stellar and gaseous discs across cosmic time

A Pillepich, D Nelson, V Springel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present a new cosmological, magnetohydrodynamical simulation for galaxy formation:
TNG50, the third and final instalment of the IllustrisTNG project. TNG50 evolves 2× 21603 …

The optical morphologies of galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulation: a comparison to Pan-STARRS observations

V Rodriguez-Gomez, GF Snyder, JM Lotz… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We have generated synthetic images of∼ 27 000 galaxies from the IllustrisTNG and the
original Illustris hydrodynamic cosmological simulations, designed to match Pan-STARRS …

The illustris simulation: Public data release

D Nelson, A Pillepich, S Genel, M Vogelsberger… - Astronomy and …, 2015 - Elsevier
We present the full public release of all data from the Illustris simulation project. Illustris is a
suite of large volume, cosmological hydrodynamical simulations run with the moving-mesh …

On the quenching of star formation in observed and simulated central galaxies: evidence for the role of integrated AGN feedback

JM Piotrowska, AFL Bluck, R Maiolino… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, we investigate how massive central galaxies cease their star formation by
comparing theoretical predictions from cosmological simulations: EAGLE, Illustris, and …

The stellar mass assembly of galaxies in the Illustris simulation: growth by mergers and the spatial distribution of accreted stars

V Rodriguez-Gomez, A Pillepich… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We use the Illustris simulation to study the relative contributions of in situ star formation and
stellar accretion to the build-up of galaxies over an unprecedentedly wide range of masses …

What causes the formation of discs and end of bursty star formation?

PF Hopkins, AB Gurvich, X Shen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
As they grow, galaxies can transition from irregular/spheroidal with 'bursty'star formation
histories (SFHs), to discy with smooth SFHs. But even in simulations, the direct physical …

The size evolution of star-forming and quenched galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulation

S Genel, D Nelson, A Pillepich… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We analyse scaling relations and evolution histories of galaxy sizes in TNG100, part of the
IllustrisTNG simulation suite. Observational qualitative trends of size with stellar mass, star …