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 …

Cosmic ray feedback in galaxies and galaxy clusters: A pedagogical introduction and a topical review of the acceleration, transport, observables, and dynamical …

M Ruszkowski, C Pfrommer - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2023‏ - Springer
Understanding the physical mechanisms that control galaxy formation is a fundamental
challenge in contemporary astrophysics. Recent advances in the field of astrophysical …

PHANGS–ALMA: Arcsecond CO (2–1) Imaging of Nearby Star-forming Galaxies

AK Leroy, E Schinnerer, A Hughes… - The Astrophysical …, 2021‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We present PHANGS–ALMA, the first survey to map CO J= 2→ 1 line emission at∼ 1''∼ 100
pc spatial resolution from a representative sample of 90 nearby (d≲ 20 Mpc) galaxies that lie …

First results from the TNG50 simulation: galactic outflows driven by supernovae and black hole feedback

D Nelson, A Pillepich, V Springel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019‏ - academic.oup.com
We present the new TNG50 cosmological, magnetohydrodynamical simulation–the third and
final volume of the IllustrisTNG project. This simulation occupies a unique combination of …

Photodissociation and X-ray-dominated regions

MG Wolfire, L Vallini, M Chevance - Annual Review of …, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
The radiation from stars and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) creates photodissociation regions
(PDRs) and X-ray-dominated regions (XDRs), where the chemistry or heating is dominated …

FIRE-3: updated stellar evolution models, yields, and microphysics and fitting functions for applications in galaxy simulations

PF Hopkins, A Wetzel, C Wheeler… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Increasingly, uncertainties in predictions from galaxy formation simulations (at sub-Milky
Way masses) are dominated by uncertainties in stellar evolution inputs. In this paper, we …

FIRE-2 simulations: physics versus numerics in galaxy formation

PF Hopkins, A Wetzel, D Kereš… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) project explores feedback in
cosmological galaxy formation simulations. Previous FIRE simulations used an identical …

Atomic hydrogen in the milky way: a step** stone in the evolution of galaxies

NM McClure-Griffiths, S Stanimirović… - Annual Review of …, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
Atomic hydrogen (Hi) is a critical step** stone in the gas evolution cycle of the interstellar
medium (ISM) of the Milky Way. Hi traces both the cold, premolecular state before star …

Pressure-regulated, feedback-modulated star formation in disk galaxies

EC Ostriker, CG Kim - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The star formation rate (SFR) in galactic disks depends on both the quantity of the available
interstellar medium (ISM) gas and its physical state. Conversely, the ISM's physical state …

Magnetic fields in star formation: from clouds to cores

K Pattle, L Fissel, M Tahani, T Liu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022‏ - arxiv.org
In this chapter we review recent advances in understanding the roles that magnetic fields
play throughout the star formation process, gained through observations and simulations of …