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 …

Theory and Observation of Winds from Star-Forming Galaxies

TA Thompson, TM Heckman - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Galactic winds shape the stellar, gas, and metal content of galaxies. To quantify their impact,
we must understand their physics. We review potential wind-driving mechanisms and …

Introducing the thesan project: radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the epoch of reionization

R Kannan, E Garaldi, A Smith, R Pakmor… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We introduce the thesan project, a suite of large volume () radiation-magnetohydrodynamic
simulations that simultaneously model the large-scale statistical properties of the …

The Arepo public code release

R Weinberger, V Springel… - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We introduce the public version of the cosmological magnetohydrodynamical moving-mesh
simulation code A repo. This version contains a finite-volume magnetohydrodynamics …

The MillenniumTNG project: the galaxy population at z ≥ 8

R Kannan, V Springel, L Hernquist… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The early release science results from JWST have yielded an unexpected abundance of
high-redshift luminous galaxies that seems to be in tension with current theories of galaxy …

z∼ 2–9 galaxies magnified by the Hubble Frontier Field clusters. II. Luminosity functions and constraints on a faint-end turnover

RJ Bouwens, G Illingworth, RS Ellis… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new determinations of the rest-UV luminosity functions (LFs) at z= 2–9 to
extremely low luminosities (>− 14 mag) from a sample of> 2500 lensed galaxies found …

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 …

The thesan project: properties of the intergalactic medium and its connection to reionization-era galaxies

E Garaldi, R Kannan, A Smith, V Springel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The high-redshift intergalactic medium (IGM) and the primeval galaxy population are rapidly
becoming the new frontier of extragalactic astronomy. We investigate the IGM properties and …

STARFORGE: Towards a comprehensive numerical model of star cluster formation and feedback

MY Grudić, D Guszejnov, PF Hopkins… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT We present STARFORGE (STAR FORmation in Gaseous Environments): a new
numerical framework for 3D radiation magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of star …

The thesan project: Lyman-α emission and transmission during the Epoch of Reionization

A Smith, R Kannan, E Garaldi… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The visibility of high-redshift Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies (LAEs) provides important
constraints on galaxy formation processes and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). However …