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∼ …

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 …

First results from the TNG50 simulation: the evolution of stellar and gaseous discs across cosmic time

A Pillepich, D Nelson, V Springel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present a new cosmological, magnetohydrodynamical simulation for galaxy formation:
TNG50, the third and final instalment of the IllustrisTNG project. TNG50 evolves 2× 21603 …

A dynamically cold disk galaxy in the early Universe

F Rizzo, S Vegetti, D Powell, F Fraternali, JP McKean… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The extreme astrophysical processes and conditions that characterize the early Universe
are expected to result in young galaxies that are dynamically different from those observed …

A Milky Way-like barred spiral galaxy at a redshift of 3

L Costantin, PG Pérez-González, Y Guo, C Buttitta… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The majority of massive disk galaxies in the local Universe show a stellar barred structure in
their central regions, including our Milky Way,. Bars are supposed to develop in dynamically …

StarHorse results for spectroscopic surveys and Gaia DR3: Chrono-chemical populations in the solar vicinity, the genuine thick disk, and young alpha-rich stars

ABA Queiroz, F Anders, C Chiappini… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
The Gaia mission has provided an invaluable wealth of astrometric data for more than a
billion stars in our Galaxy. The synergy between Gaia astrometry, photometry, and …

Dynamical properties of z ∼4.5 dusty star-forming galaxies and their connection with local early-type galaxies

F Rizzo, S Vegetti, F Fraternali… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
There is a large consensus that gas in high-z galaxies is highly turbulent, because of a
combination of stellar feedback processes and gravitational instabilities driven by mergers …

A massive stellar bulge in a regularly rotating galaxy 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang

F Lelli, EM Di Teodoro, F Fraternali, AWS Man… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Cosmological models predict that galaxies forming in the early Universe experience a
chaotic phase of gas accretion and star formation, followed by gas ejection due to feedback …

Regular rotation and low turbulence in a diverse sample of z ∼ 4.5 galaxies observed with ALMA

F Roman-Oliveira, F Fraternali… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The discovery of galaxies with regularly rotating discs at redshifts≥ 4 has been a puzzling
challenge to galaxy formation models that tend to predict chaotic gas kinematics in the early …

GA-NIFS: NIRSpec reveals evidence for non-circular motions and AGN feedback in GN20

H Übler, F d'Eugenio, M Perna, S Arribas… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present rest-frame optical data of the submillimetre galaxy GN20 obtained with the JWST
Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) in integral field spectroscopy mode. The H emission …