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These notes present material from lectures given at the 54th Saas-Fee Advanced Course of the Swiss Society of Astrophysics and Astronomy in January 2025, entitled "Galaxies and Black Holes in the First Billion Years as seen by the JWST",…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-03 Rachel S. Somerville

The spatial distribution of matter in clusters of galaxies is mainly determined by the dominant dark matter component, however, physical processes involving baryonic matter are able to modify it significantly. We analyse a set of 500 pc…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-13 Davide Martizzi , Romain Teyssier , Ben Moore , Tina Wentz

We investigate the role of baryonic physics in shaping the population, structure, and internal dynamics of galactic subhalos using the Mochima suite of cosmological zoom-in simulations. A refined method is developed to identify bound…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-10 A. Nuñez-Castiñeyra , E. Nezri , P. Mollitor , L. Michel-Dansac , J. Devriendt , R. Teyssier

We quantify the impact of galaxy formation on dark matter halo shapes using cosmological simulations at redshift $z=0$. The haloes are drawn from the IllustrisTNG project, a suite of magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of galaxies. We focus on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Kun Ting Eddie Chua , Mark Vogelsberger , Annalisa Pillepich , Lars Hernquist

We use cosmological simulations in order to study the effects of supernova (SN) feedback on the formation of a Milky Way-type galaxy of virial mass ~10^12 M_sun/h. We analyse a set of simulations run with the code described by Scannapieco…

The models of star formation function and of dissipation of turbulent energy of interstellar medium are proposed. In star formation model the feedback of supernovae is taken into account. It is shown that hierarchical scenario of galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-10 E. P. Kurbatov

Galaxy growth depends critically on the interplay between radiative cooling of cosmic gas and the resulting energetic feedback that cooling triggers. This interplay has proven exceedingly difficult to model, even with large supercomputer…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 G. Mark Voit , Greg L. Bryan , Brian W. O'Shea , Megan Donahue

The latest generation of cosmological simulations are on the verge of being able to resolve the structure of bulges for the first time. Hence, we review the current state of bulge formation in cosmological simulations, and discuss open…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-09 Alyson M. Brooks , Charlotte R. Christensen

We present the Dark MaGICC project, which aims to investigate the effect of Dark Energy (DE) modeling on galaxy formation via hydrodynamical cosmological simulations. Dark MaGICC includes four dynamical Dark Energy scenarios with time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Camilla Penzo , Andrea V. Macciò , Luciano Casarini , Greg S. Stinson , James Wadsley

One major problem of current theoretical models of galaxy formation is given by their inability to reproduce the apparently `anti-hierarchical' evolution of galaxy assembly: massive galaxies appear to be in place since $z\sim 3$, while a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-15 Michaela Hirschmann , Gabriella De Lucia , Fabio Fontanot

We explore the effects of specific assumptions in the subgrid models of star formation and stellar and AGN feedback on intrinsic alignments of galaxies in cosmological simulations of "MassiveBlack-II" family. Using smaller volume…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Ananth Tenneti , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Yu Feng

A review on numerical simulations of galaxy formation is given. Different numerical methods to solve collisionless and gas dynamical systems are outlined and one particular simulation technique, Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, is discussed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Steinmetz

The structure and dynamics of dark matter halos, as predicted by the hierarchical clustering scenario, are at odds with the properties inferred from the observations at galactic scales. My Thesis addresses this problem by taking an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-02-20 Chiara Tonini

The most successful cosmological models to date envision structure formation as a hierarchical process in which gravity is constantly drawing lumps of matter together to form increasingly larger structures. Clusters of galaxies currently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Mark Voit

Although supernova explosions and stellar winds happens at scales bellow 100 pc, they affect the interstellar medium(ISM) and galaxy formation. We use cosmological N-body+Hydrodynamics simulations of galaxy formation, as well as simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniel Ceverino , Anatoly Klypin

The interplay of star formation and supernova (SN) feedback in galaxy formation is a key element for understanding galaxy evolution. Since these processes occur at small scales, it is necessary to have sub-grid models that recover their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-15 Arturo Nuñez-Castiñeyra , Emmanuel Nezri , Julien Devriendt , Romain Teyssier

In a $\Lambda$CDM cosmology, galaxy formation is a globally inefficient process: it is often the case that far fewer baryons are observed in galaxy disks than expected from the cosmic baryon fraction. The location of these "missing baryons"…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-15 Harley Katz , Harry Desmond , Federico Lelli , Stacy McGaugh , Arianna Di Cintio , Chris Brook , James Schombert

I review several of the current issues in the theory of disk galaxy formation. There is sti ll much to be done, observationally and theoretically, before we can expect to approach an understanding of disk galaxies that is reliable enough to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Joseph Silk

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.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 G. Efstathiou

Recent results indicate the presence of a cosmological constant (or related dark energy) in the universe. It has been conjectured recently that the interaction parameters of physical theories may be dependant on the size parameter of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Panchapakesan