Radio galaxies and feedback from AGN jets

MJ Hardcastle, JH Croston - New Astronomy Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
We review current understanding of the population of radio galaxies and radio-loud quasars
from an observational perspective, focusing on their large-scale structures and dynamics …

Active galactic nuclei: what's in a name?

P Padovani, DM Alexander, RJ Assef… - The Astronomy and …, 2017 - Springer
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are energetic astrophysical sources powered by accretion onto
supermassive black holes in galaxies, and present unique observational signatures that …

Characterizing the fast radio burst host galaxy population and its connection to transients in the local and extragalactic universe

S Bhandari, KE Heintz, K Aggarwal… - The Astronomical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the localization and host galaxies of one repeating and two apparently
nonrepeating fast radio bursts (FRBs). FRB 20180301A was detected and localized with the …

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 …

Inferring the star formation histories of massive quiescent galaxies with bagpipes: evidence for multiple quenching mechanisms

AC Carnall, RJ McLure, JS Dunlop… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT We present Bayesian Analysis of Galaxies for Physical Inference and Parameter
EStimation, or bagpipes, a new python tool that can be used to rapidly generate complex …

Host galaxy properties and offset distributions of fast radio bursts: implications for their progenitors

KE Heintz, JX Prochaska, S Simha… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present observations and detailed characterizations of five new host galaxies of fast
radio bursts (FRBs) discovered with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder …

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 …

Zooming in on the circumgalactic medium with GIBLE: Resolving small-scale gas structure in cosmological simulations

R Ramesh, D Nelson - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT We introduce Project GIBLE (Gas Is Better resoLved around galaxiEs), a suite of
cosmological zoom-in simulations where gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is …

The star formation activity of IllustrisTNG galaxies: main sequence, UVJ diagram, quenched fractions, and systematics

M Donnari, A Pillepich, D Nelson… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We select galaxies from the IllustrisTNG hydrodynamical simulations (at 0≤ z≤ 2) and
characterize the shapes and evolutions of their UVJ and star formation rate–stellar mass …

Introducing the Illustris project: the evolution of galaxy populations across cosmic time

S Genel, M Vogelsberger, V Springel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We present an overview of galaxy evolution across cosmic time in the Illustris simulation.
Illustris is an N-body/hydrodynamical simulation that evolves 2× 18203 resolution elements …