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The thermal and chemical properties of the hot diffuse intragroup medium (IGrM) provide important constraints on the feedback processes associated with massive galaxy formation and evolution. Here we explore these constraints via a detailed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-20 Lichen Liang , Fabrice Durier , Arif Babul , Romeel Davé , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer , Neal Katz , Mark Fardal , Tom Quinn

The role of galactic wind recycling represents one of the largest unknowns in galaxy evolution, as any contribution of recycling to galaxy growth is largely degenerate with the inflow rates of first-time infalling material, and the rates…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-12 Peter D. Mitchell , Joop Schaye , Richard G. Bower

We analyse the mass assembly of central galaxies in the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulations. We build merger trees to connect galaxies to their progenitors at different redshifts and characterize their assembly histories by focusing on the…

The EAGLE cosmological simulations reproduce the observed galaxy stellar mass function and many galaxy properties. In this work, we study the dust-related properties of present-day EAGLE galaxies through mock observations in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 Peter Camps , James W. Trayford , Maarten Baes , Tom Theuns , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

We use the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamic simulation suite to study the specific angular momentum of galaxies, $j$, with the aims of (i) investigating the physical causes behind the wide range of $j$ at fixed mass and (ii) examining…

We study the correlation between stellar mass and stellar metallicity in the Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments (EAGLE) suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. At a given stellar mass, simulated galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-17 María Emilia De Rossi , Richard G. Bower , Andreea S. Font , Joop Schaye , Tom Theuns

Recently, rapid observational and theoretical progress has established that black holes (BHs) play a decisive role in the formation and evolution of individual galaxies as well as galaxy groups and clusters. In particular, there is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-20 Ewald Puchwein , Debora Sijacki , Volker Springel

We use the hydrodynamical EAGLE simulation to predict the numbers, masses and radial distributions of tidally stripped galaxy nuclei in massive galaxy clusters, and compare these results to observations of ultra-compact dwarf galaxies…

We present the COLIBRE galaxy formation model and the COLIBRE suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. COLIBRE includes new models for radiative cooling, dust grains, star formation, stellar mass loss, turbulent diffusion,…

We investigate the evolution of the galaxy Star Formation Rate Function (SFRF) and Cosmic Star Formation Rate Density (CSFRD) of $z\sim 0-8 $ galaxies in the Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments (EAGLE) simulations. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-20 A. Katsianis , G. Blanc , C. P. Lagos , N. Tejos , R. G. Bower , A. Alavi , V. Gonzalez , T. Theuns , M. Schaller , S. Lopez

We present a new suite of large-volume cosmological hydrodynamical simulations called cosmo-OWLS. They form an extension to the OverWhelmingly Large Simulations (OWLS) project, and have been designed to help improve our understanding of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Amandine M. C. Le Brun , Ian G. McCarthy , Joop Schaye , Trevor J. Ponman

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the most energetic phenomena in the universe, capable of regulating star formation in galaxies via radiative and mechanical feedback. While AGN feedback is well studied in host galaxies, its influence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-14 Apashanka Das , Biswajit Pandey

In recent years, cosmological hydrodynamical simulations have proven their utility as key interpretative tools in the study of galaxy formation and evolution. In this work, we present a like-for-like comparison between the baryon cycle in…

We present the Feedback Acting on Baryons in Large-scale Environments (FABLE) suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxies, groups and clusters. The simulations use the AREPO moving-mesh code with a set of physical models…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-13 Nicholas A. Henden , Ewald Puchwein , Sijing Shen , Debora Sijacki

We aim at addressing the questions related to galaxy mass assembly through major and minor wet merging processes in the redshift range 1<z<2. A consequent fraction of Milky Way like galaxies are thought to have undergone an unstable clumpy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 V. Perret , F. Renaud , B. Epinat , P. Amram , F. Bournaud , T. Contini , R. Teyssier , J. -C. Lambert

We have developed a new tool to analyse galaxies in the EAGLE simulations as close as possible to observations.We investigated the evolution of their kinematic properties by means of the angular momentum proxy parameter,$ \lambda_{Re} $for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-20 Daniel Walo-Martín , Jesús Falcón-Barroso , Claudio Dalla Vecchia , Isabel Pérez , Andrea Negri

We use mock images of $z=0.1$ galaxies in the 100 Mpc EAGLE simulation to establish the differences between the sizes and morphologies inferred from the stellar mass distributions and the optical light distributions. The optical, $r$-band…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-15 Anna de Graaff , James Trayford , Marijn Franx , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye , Arjen van der Wel

We use the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation to trace the quenching history of galaxies in its 10 most massive clusters. We use two criteria to identify moments when galaxies suffer significant changes in their star formation activity: {\it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-10 Diego Pallero , Facundo A. Gómez , Nelson D. Padilla , S. Torres-Flores , R. Demarco , P. Cerulo , D. Olave-Rojas

To fully take advantage of the data provided by large-scale structure surveys, we need to quantify the potential impact of baryonic effects, such as feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) and star formation, on cosmological observables.…

We use the hydrodynamic, cosmological EAGLE simulations to investigate how hot gas in haloes condenses to form and grow galaxies. We select haloes from the simulations that are actively cooling and study the temperature, distribution, and…