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 …

COSMOS-Web: an overview of the JWST Cosmic Origins Survey

CM Casey, JS Kartaltepe, NE Drakos… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the survey design, implementation, and outlook for COSMOS-Web, a 255 hr
treasury program conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope in its first cycle of …

The DESI bright galaxy survey: Final target selection, design, and validation

CH Hahn, MJ Wilson, O Ruiz-Macias… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the next 5 yr, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will use 10
spectrographs with 5000 fibers on the 4 m Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National …

The art of measuring physical parameters in galaxies: a critical assessment of spectral energy distribution fitting techniques

C Pacifici, KG Iyer, B Mobasher… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The study of galaxy evolution hinges on our ability to interpret multiwavelength galaxy
observations in terms of their physical properties. To do this, we rely on spectral energy …

COSMOS2020: The galaxy stellar mass function-The assembly and star formation cessation of galaxies at 0.2< z≤ 7.5

JR Weaver, I Davidzon, S Toft, O Ilbert… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. How galaxies form, assemble, and cease their star formation is a central question
within the modern landscape of galaxy evolution studies. These processes are indelibly …

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 …

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∼ …

simba: Cosmological simulations with black hole growth and feedback

R Davé, D Anglés-Alcázar, D Narayanan… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We introduce the simba simulations, the next generation of the mufasa cosmological galaxy
formation simulations run with gizmo's meshless finite mass hydrodynamics. simba includes …

First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: A tale of two elements–chemical evolution of magnesium and europium

JP Naiman, A Pillepich, V Springel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The distribution of elements in galaxies provides a wealth of information about their
production sites and their subsequent mixing into the interstellar medium. Here we …

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 …