Physical models of galaxy formation in a cosmological framework

RS Somerville, R Davé - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2015‏ - annualreviews.org
Modeling galaxy formation in a cosmological context presents one of the greatest
challenges in astrophysics today due to the vast range of scales and numerous physical …

Cosmology and fundamental physics with the Euclid satellite

L Amendola, S Appleby, A Avgoustidis, D Bacon… - Living reviews in …, 2018‏ - Springer
Abstract Euclid is a European Space Agency medium-class mission selected for launch in
2020 within the cosmic vision 2015–2025 program. The main goal of Euclid is to understand …

UniverseMachine: The correlation between galaxy growth and dark matter halo assembly from z = 0−10

P Behroozi, RH Wechsler, AP Hearin… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019‏ - academic.oup.com
We present a method to flexibly and self-consistently determine individual galaxies' star
formation rates (SFRs) from their host haloes' potential well depths, assembly histories, and …

Too big to fail? The puzzling darkness of massive Milky Way subhaloes

M Boylan-Kolchin, JS Bullock… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2011‏ - academic.oup.com
We show that dissipationless Λ cold dark matter simulations predict that the majority of the
most massive subhaloes of the Milky Way are too dense to host any of its bright satellites …

Semi-analytic galaxy evolution (SAGE): model calibration and basic results

DJ Croton, ARH Stevens, C Tonini… - The Astrophysical …, 2016‏ - iopscience.iop.org
This paper describes a new publicly available codebase for modeling galaxy formation in a
cosmological context, the" Semi-Analytic Galaxy Evolution" model, or sage for short. 5 sage …

Small scale problems of the ΛCDM model: a short review

A Del Popolo, M Le Delliou - Galaxies, 2017‏ - mdpi.com
The ΛCDM model, or concordance cosmology, as it is often called, is a paradigm at its
maturity. It is clearly able to describe the universe at large scale, even if some issues remain …

From dwarf spheroidals to cD galaxies: simulating the galaxy population in a ΛCDM cosmology

Q Guo, S White, M Boylan-Kolchin… - Monthly Notices of …, 2011‏ - academic.oup.com
We have updated and extended our semi-analytic galaxy formation modelling capabilities
and applied them simultaneously to the stored halo/subhalo merger trees of the Millennium …

The Milky Way's bright satellites as an apparent failure of ΛCDM

M Boylan-Kolchin, JS Bullock… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2012‏ - academic.oup.com
We use the Aquarius simulations to show that the most massive subhaloes in galaxy-mass
dark matter (DM) haloes in Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) are grossly inconsistent with the …

The many lives of active galactic nuclei: cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies

DJ Croton, V Springel, SDM White… - Monthly Notices of …, 2006‏ - academic.oup.com
We simulate the growth of galaxies and their central supermassive black holes by
implementing a suite of semi-analytic models on the output of the Millennium Run, a very …

A comprehensive analysis of uncertainties affecting the stellar mass–halo mass relation for 0< z< 4

PS Behroozi, C Conroy… - The Astrophysical …, 2010‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We conduct a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between central galaxies and their
host dark matter halos, as characterized by the stellar mass–halo mass (SM–HM) relation …