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 …

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 …

Introducing the Illustris Project: simulating the coevolution of dark and visible matter in the Universe

M Vogelsberger, S Genel, V Springel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT We introduce the Illustris Project, a series of large-scale hydrodynamical
simulations of galaxy formation. The highest resolution simulation, Illustris-1, covers a …

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 …

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 …

Cosmic star-formation history

P Madau, M Dickinson - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Over the past two decades, an avalanche of new data from multiwavelength imaging and
spectroscopic surveys has revolutionized our view of galaxy formation and evolution. Here …

Simulations of the formation, evolution and clustering of galaxies and quasars

V Springel, SDM White, A Jenkins, CS Frenk… - nature, 2005 - nature.com
The cold dark matter model has become the leading theoretical picture for the formation of
structure in the Universe. This model, together with the theory of cosmic inflation, makes a …

[BOOK][B] Modern cosmology

S Dodelson, F Schmidt - 2024 - books.google.com
Modern Cosmology, Third Edition provides a detailed introduction to the field of cosmology.
Beginning with the smooth, homogeneous universe described by a Friedmann-Lemaître …

Galaxies on FIRE (Feedback In Realistic Environments): stellar feedback explains cosmologically inefficient star formation

PF Hopkins, D Kereš, J Oñorbe… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We present a series of high-resolution cosmological simulations1 of galaxy formation to z=
0, spanning halo masses∼ 108–1013 M⊙, and stellar masses∼ 104–1011 M⊙. Our …

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 …