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 …

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 …

From dawn till disc: Milky Way's turbulent youth revealed by the APOGEE+Gaia data

V Belokurov, A Kravtsov - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We use accurate estimates of aluminium abundance from the APOGEE Data Release 17
and Gaia Early Data Release 3 astrometry to select a highly pure sample of stars with …

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 …

First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: the stellar mass content of groups and clusters of galaxies

A Pillepich, D Nelson, L Hernquist… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The IllustrisTNG project is a new suite of cosmological magnetohydrodynamical simulations
of galaxy formation performed with the arepo code and updated models for feedback …

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 …

Simulating galaxy formation with the IllustrisTNG model

A Pillepich, V Springel, D Nelson… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We introduce an updated physical model to simulate the formation and evolution of galaxies
in cosmological, large-scale gravity+ magnetohydrodynamical simulations with the moving …

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 …

What causes the formation of discs and end of bursty star formation?

PF Hopkins, AB Gurvich, X Shen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
As they grow, galaxies can transition from irregular/spheroidal with 'bursty'star formation
histories (SFHs), to discy with smooth SFHs. But even in simulations, the direct physical …

Public data release of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation

A Wetzel, CC Hayward, RE Sanderson… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe a public data release of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy
formation (available at http://flathub. flatironinstitute. org/fire) from the Feedback In Realistic …