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The processes are investigated by which gas loses its angular momentum during the protogalactic collapse phase, leading to disk galaxies that are too compact with respect to the observations. High-resolution N-body/SPH simulations in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. D'Onghia , A. Burkert , G. Murante , S. Khochfar

We present measurements of the specific angular momentum $j_\star$ of 41 star-forming galaxies at $1.5<z<2.5$. These measurements are based on radial profiles inferred from near-IR \textit{HST} photometry, along with multi-resolution…

Stellar halos around galaxies retain fundamental evidence of the processes which lead to their build up. Sophisticated models of galaxy formation in a cosmological context yield quantitative predictions about various observable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-07 Laura Greggio , Renato Falomo , Michela Uslenghi

We propose that galaxy structural changes - and the rapid rise of a population of galaxies with early-type morphologies at cosmic noon ($1<z<3$) - can be explained with EASE: Early, Accelerated, Secular Evolution. The mechanism relies on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Arjen van der Wel , Sharon E. Meidt

Observed galactic disks have specific angular momenta similar to expectations for typical dark matter halos in $\Lambda$CDM. Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations have recently reproduced this similarity in large galaxy samples by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-24 Daniel DeFelippis , Shy Genel , Greg Bryan , S. Michael Fall

We use a sample of 559 disc galaxies extracted from the eXtended GALEX Arecibo SDSS Survey (xGASS) to study the connection between baryonic angular momentum, mass and atomic gas fraction in the local Universe. Baryonic angular momenta are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-14 Jennifer A. Hardwick , Luca Cortese , Danail Obreschkow , Barbara Catinella

We present an analysis of the gas dynamics of star-forming galaxies at z~1.5 using data from the KMOS Galaxy Evolution Survey (KGES). We quantify the morphology of the galaxies using $HST$ CANDELS imaging parametrically and…

We examine the evolution of intrinsic u-r colours of galaxies in the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, which has been shown to reproduce the observed redshift z=0.1 colour-magnitude distribution well. The median u-r of…

We investigate the connection between the morphology and internal kinematics of the stellar component of central galaxies with mass $M_\star > {10}^{9.5} {\rm M}_\odot$ in the EAGLE simulations. We compare several kinematic diagnostics…

This study focuses on stars with masses above the Kraft break in the \textit{Kepler} field. Their rotational angular momenta are essentially the same as those at the zero-age main sequence. The angular momentum dissipation experienced by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-22 Yu-Fu Shen , Yan Xu , Yi-Bo Wang , Xiu-Lin Huang , Xing-Xing Hu , Qi Yuan

The satellites of the Milky Way and Andromeda represent the smallest galaxies we can observe in our Universe. In this series of papers we aim to shed light on their formation and evolution using cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-22 Andrea V. Macciò , Jonas Frings , Tobias Buck , Camilla Penzo , Aaron A. Dutton , Marvin Blank , Aura Obreja

We suggest that the bulge-to-disc ratios of spiral galaxies are primarily determined by the angular momenta of their host haloes predicted in current hierarchical clustering models for structure formation. Gas with low specific angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shude Mao , H. J. Mo

We use the EAGLE cosmological simulations to study the evolution of the vertical velocity dispersion of cold gas, $\sigma_{z}$, in central disc galaxies and its connection to stellar feedback, gravitational instabilities, cosmological gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-26 Esteban Jiménez , Claudia del P. Lagos , Aaron D. Ludlow , Emily Wisnioski

A multi-faceted approach is described to constrain the importance of bar-driven evolution in disk galaxies, particularly bulge formation. N-body simulations are used to construct stellar kinematic bar diagnostics for edge-on systems and to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 M. Bureau , E. Athanassoula , A. Chung , G. Aronica

We investigate the internal structure and density profiles of halos of mass $10^{10}-10^{14}~M_\odot$ in the Evolution and Assembly of Galaxies and their Environment (EAGLE) simulations. These follow the formation of galaxies in a…

We investigate the specific angular momentum (sAM) $ j(<r)$ profiles of intermediate redshift ($0.4<z<1.4$) star-forming galaxies (SFGs) in the relatively unexplored regime of low masses (down to $M_\star\sim 10^8$M$_{\odot}$), and small…

We employ the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation to uncover the relationship between cluster environment and $\rm H_2$ content of star-forming galaxies at redshifts spanning $0\leq z\leq 1$. To do so, we divide the star-forming sample into…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-31 Aditya Manuwal , Adam R. H. Stevens

We explore the properties of central galaxies living in voids using the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. Based on the minimum void-centric distance, we define four galaxy samples: inner void, outer void, wall, and skeleton. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-21 Yetli Rosas-Guevara , Patricia Tissera , Claudia del P. Lagos , Enrique Paillas , Nelson Padilla

We investigate how a property of a galaxy correlates most tightly with a property of its host dark matter halo, using state-of-the-art hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation EAGLE, Illustris, and IllustrisTNG. Unlike most of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Jian-hua He

We study present-day galaxy clustering in the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. EAGLE's galaxy formation parameters were calibrated to reproduce the redshift $z=0.1$ galaxy stellar mass function, and the simulation also…