Baryonic solutions and challenges for cosmological models of dwarf galaxies

LV Sales, A Wetzel, A Fattahi - Nature Astronomy, 2022‏ - nature.com
Galaxies and their dark-matter haloes have posed several challenges to the dark energy
plus cold dark matter (Λ CDM) cosmological model. These discrepancies between …

Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation

M Vogelsberger, F Marinacci, P Torrey… - Nature Reviews …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Over recent decades, cosmological simulations of galaxy formation have been instrumental
in advancing our understanding of structure and galaxy formation in the Universe. These …

Efficient formation of massive galaxies at cosmic dawn by feedback-free starbursts

A Dekel, KC Sarkar, Y Birnboim… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT JWST observations indicate a surprising excess of luminous galaxies at z∼ 10
and above, consistent with efficient conversion of the accreted gas into stars, unlike the …

Robust data-driven metallicities for 175 million stars from Gaia XP spectra

R Andrae, HW Rix, V Chandra - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We derive and publish data-driven estimates of stellar metallicity [M/H] for∼ 175 million stars
with low-resolution XP spectra published in Gaia DR3. The [M/H] values, along with T eff and …

[HTML][HTML] Baryon cycles in the biggest galaxies

M Donahue, GM Voit - Physics Reports, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The universe's biggest galaxies have both vast atmospheres and supermassive central
black holes. This article reviews how those two components of a large galaxy couple and …

The MOSDEF Survey: The Evolution of the Mass–Metallicity Relation from z= 0 to z∼ 3.3

RL Sanders, AE Shapley, T Jones… - The Astrophysical …, 2021‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the evolution of galaxy gas-phase metallicity (O/H) over the range z= 0–3.3
using samples of∼ 300 galaxies at z∼ 2.3 and∼ 150 galaxies at z∼ 3.3 from the MOSDEF …

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 …

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 …

Ultra-light dark matter

EGM Ferreira - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2021‏ - Springer
Ultra-light dark matter is a class of dark matter models (DM), where DM is composed by
bosons with masses ranging from 10^-24\, eV< m< eV 10-24 eV< m< eV. These models …

Dark matter self-interactions and small scale structure

S Tulin, HB Yu - Physics Reports, 2018‏ - Elsevier
We review theories of dark matter (DM) beyond the collisionless paradigm, known as self-
interacting dark matter (SIDM), and their observable implications for astrophysical structure …