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The interpretation of upcoming weak gravitational lensing surveys depends critically on our understanding of the matter power spectrum on scales $k < 10 h/\mathrm{Mpc}$, where baryonic processes are important. We study the impact of galaxy…

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A model of supernovae feedback during disc galaxy formation is developed. The model incorporates infall of cooling gas from a halo and outflow of hot gas from a multiphase interstellar medium and a self-regulated model for star formation.…

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The $y$-type distortion of the blackbody spectrum of the cosmic microwave background radiation probes the pressure of the gas trapped in galaxy groups and clusters. We reanalyze archival data of the FIRAS instrument with an improved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-03 Giulio Fabbian , Federico Bianchini , Alina Sabyr , J. Colin Hill , Christopher C. Lovell , Leander Thiele , David N. Spergel

The formation of structure in the Universe at large scales is dominated by gravity, with baryonic physics becoming significant at $\sim{\rm Mpc}$ scales. To capture the impact of baryonic physics, cosmological simulations must model gas…

Various heuristic approaches to model unresolved supernova (SN) feedback in galaxy formation simulations exist to reproduce the formation of spiral galaxies and the overall inefficient conversion of gas into stars. Some models, however,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-08 Alejandro Núñez , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Thorsten Naab , Ludwig Oser , Chia-Yu Hu , Ena Choi

We have simulated the formation of a massive galaxy cluster (M$_{200}^{\rm crit}$ = 1.1$\times$10$^{15}h^{-1}M_{\odot}$) in a $\Lambda$CDM universe using 10 different codes (RAMSES, 2 incarnations of AREPO and 7 of GADGET), modeling…

We investigate the impact of AGN feedback on the gravitational lensing properties of a sample of galaxy clusters with masses in the range 10^14 - 10^15 Msol, using state-of-the-art simulations. Adopting a ray-tracing algorithm, we compute…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 J. M. G. Mead , L. J. King , D. Sijacki , A. Leonard , E. Puchwein , I. G. McCarthy

We study the detailed structure of galaxies at redshifts z > 2 using cosmological simulations with improved modeling of the interstellar medium and star formation. The simulations follow the formation and dissociation of molecular hydrogen,…

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Baryon feedback redistributes gas relative to the underlying dark matter distribution and suppresses the matter power spectrum on small scales, but the amplitude and scale dependence of this effect are uncertain. We constrain the impact of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-03 Jared Siegel , Leah Bigwood , Alexandra Amon , Jamie McCullough , Masaya Yamamoto , Ian G. McCarthy , Matthieu Schaller , Aurel Schneider , Joop Schaye

Hydrodynamic simulations of galaxies with active galactic nuclei (AGN) have typically employed feedback that is purely local: i.e., an injection of energy to the immediate neighborhood of the black hole. We perform GADGET-2 simulations of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 D. Clay Hambrick , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Thorsten Naab , Peter H. Johansson

(abridged) We used a suite of numerical cosmological simulations in order to investigate the effect of gas cooling and star formation on the large scale matter distribution. The simulations follow the formation of cosmic structures in five…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 C. Fedeli , K. Dolag , L. Moscardini

Dwarf galaxies pose significant challenges for cosmological models. In particular, current models predict a dark matter density that is divergent at the center, in sharp contrast with observations which indicate an approximately constant…

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The inefficiency of star formation in massive elliptical galaxies is widely believed to be caused by the interactions of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) with the surrounding gas. Achieving a sufficiently rapid reddening of moderately…

We present numerical simulations aimed at exploring the effects of varying the sub-grid physics parameters on the evolution and the properties of the galaxy formed in a low-mass dark matter halo (~7 times 10^10 Msun/h at redshift z=0). The…

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We present a suite of zoom-in cosmological simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies with a prominent disc component and a strong bar in their centre, based on a subsample of barred galaxies from the TNG50 magneto-hydrodynamic simulation. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-28 Yetli Rosas-Guevara , Silvia Bonoli , Ewald Puchwein , Massimo Dotti , Sergio Contreras

We present a series of high-resolution cosmological simulations of galaxy formation to z=0, spanning halo masses ~10^8-10^13 M_sun, and stellar masses ~10^4-10^11. Our simulations include fully explicit treatment of both the multi-phase ISM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-13 Philip F. Hopkins , Dusan Keres , Jose Onorbe , Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere , Eliot Quataert , Norm Murray , James S. Bullock

We studied the effect of interstellar gas conditions on global galaxy simulations by considering three different models for the ISM. Our first model included only radiative cooling down to 300 K, our second model added an additional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Elizabeth J. Tasker , Greg L. Bryan

We investigate the impact of time-resolved `gradual' stellar feedback processes in high redshift dwarf spheroidal galaxies. Here `gradual' feedback refers to individual stellar feedback events which deposit energy over a period of time. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-02 L. Garratt-Smithson , G. A. Wynn , C. Power , C. J. Nixon

We use numerical simulations of isolated galaxies to study the effects of stellar feedback on the formation and evolution of giant star-forming gas 'clumps' in high-redshift, gas-rich galaxies. Such galactic disks are unstable to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-02 Philip F. Hopkins , Dusan Keres , Norman Murray , Eliot Quataert , Lars Hernquist

Flux limited X-ray surveys of galaxy clusters show that clusters come in two roughly equally proportioned varieties: "cool core" clusters (CCs) and non-"cool core" clusters (NCCs). In previous work, we have demonstrated using cosmological…

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