Key physical processes in the circumgalactic medium

CA Faucher-Giguère, SP Oh - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
Spurred by rich, multiwavelength observations and enabled by new simulations, ranging
from cosmological to subparsec scales, the past decade has seen major theoretical …

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 …

The cold interstellar medium of galaxies in the local universe

A Saintonge, B Catinella - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
The cold interstellar medium (ISM) plays a central role in the galaxy evolution process. It is
the reservoir that fuels galaxy growth via star formation, the repository of material formed by …

The evolution of the star-forming interstellar medium across cosmic time

LJ Tacconi, R Genzel, A Sternberg - Annual Review of …, 2020‏ - annualreviews.org
Over the past decade, increasingly robust estimates of the dense molecular gas content in
galaxy populations between redshift z= 0 and the peak of cosmic galaxy/star formation (z∼ …

The assembly of the first massive black holes

K Inayoshi, E Visbal, Z Haiman - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2020‏ - annualreviews.org
The existence of∼ 109M⊙ supermassive black holes (SMBHs) within the first billion years
of the Universe has stimulated numerous ideas for the prompt formation and rapid growth of …

GOLDRUSH. IV. Luminosity Functions and Clustering Revealed with∼ 4,000,000 Galaxies at z∼ 2–7: Galaxy–AGN Transition, Star Formation Efficiency, and …

Y Harikane, Y Ono, M Ouchi, C Liu… - The Astrophysical …, 2022‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We present new measurements of rest-UV luminosity functions and angular correlation
functions from 4,100,221 galaxies at z∼ 2–7 identified in the Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam …

[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 …

Small-Scale Challenges to the Λ CDM Paradigm

JS Bullock, M Boylan-Kolchin - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2017‏ - annualreviews.org
The dark energy plus cold dark matter (ΛCDM) cosmological model has been a
demonstrably successful framework for predicting and explaining the large-scale structure of …

Early galaxy formation and its large-scale effects

P Dayal, A Ferrara - Physics Reports, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Galaxy formation is at the heart of our understanding of cosmic evolution. Although there is a
consensus that galaxies emerged from the expanding matter background by gravitational …

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 …