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We investigate the contentious issue of the presence, or lack thereof, of satellites mass segregation in galaxy groups using the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey, the GALFORM semi-analytic and the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamical…

We use a suite of hydrodynamical cosmological simulations from the Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments (EAGLE) project to investigate the formation of hot hydrostatic haloes and their dependence on feedback mechanisms.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-01 Camila A. Correa , Joop Schaye , J. Stuart B. Wyithe , Alan R. Duffy , Tom Theuns , Robert A. Crain , Richard Bower

We provide a review on semi-empirical models of galaxy formation and evolution. We present a brief census of the three main modeling approaches to galaxy evolution, namely hydrodynamical simulations, semi-analytic models, and semi-empirical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-19 Andrea Lapi , Lumen Boco , Francesco Shankar

Advances in extragalactic astronomy have prompted the development of increasingly realistic models which aim to describe the formation and evolution of galaxies. We review the philosophy behind one such technique, called semi-analytic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. M. Baugh , A. J. Benson , S. Cole , C. S. Frenk , C. Lacey

We propose an empirical model to describe and constrain the baryon cycle process during galaxy evolution. This model utilizes the evolution of star formation rate, derived from the stellar mass-halo mass relations (SHMRs) across different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-17 Yaoxin Chen , Xi Kang , Hong Guo , Hou-Zun Chen , Jiafeng Lu

The standard formation model of close-in low-mass planets involves efficient inward migration followed by growth through giant impacts after the protoplanetary gas disk disperses. While detailed N-body simulations have enhanced our…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Tadahiro Kimura , Eiichiro Kokubo , Yuji Matsumoto , Christoph Mordasini , Masahiro Ikoma

Both numerical hydrodynamic and semi-analytic cosmological models of galaxy formation struggle to match observed star formation histories of galaxies in low mass halos (M$_{\rm{H}} \lesssim 10^{11} M_\odot$), predicting more star formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Catherine E. White , Rachel S. Somerville , Henry C. Ferguson

Simulations from the scales of isolated galaxies to clouds have been instrumental in informing us about molecular cloud formation and evolution. Simulations are able to investigate the roles of gravity, feedback, turbulence, heating and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-05 Clare Dobbs

In recent years, increasing attention has been devoted to semi empirical, data-driven models to tackle some aspects of the complex and still largely debated topic of galaxy formation and evolution. We here present a new semi empirical model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-26 Lumen Boco , Andrea Lapi , Francesco Shankar , Hao Fu , Francesco Gabrielli , Alex Sicilia

Numerical simulations have become a necessary tool to describe the complex interactions among the different processes involved in galaxy formation and evolution, unfeasible via an analytic approach. The last decade has seen a great effort…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-19 Alessandro Lupi , Marta Volonteri , Joseph Silk

Semi-analytic models are a powerful tool for studying the formation of galaxies. However, these models inevitably involve a significant number of poorly constrained parameters that must be adjusted to provide an acceptable match to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 R. G. Bower , I. Vernon , M. Goldstein , A. J. Benson , C. G. Lacey , C. M. Baugh , S. Cole , C. S. Frenk , .

We explore the relationship between stellar surface density and gas surface density (the star-gas or S-G correlation) in a 20,000 M$_{\odot}$ simulation from the STAR FORmation in Gaseous Environments (STARFORGE) Project. We create…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-19 Samuel Millstone , Robert Gutermuth , Stella S. R. Offner , Riwaj Pokhrel , Michael Y. Grudić

We introduce a new model for the structure and evolution of the gas in galactic discs. In the model the gas is in vertical pressure and energy balance. Star formation feedback injects energy and momentum, and non-axisymmetric torques…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-25 Mark R. Krumholz , Blakesley Burkhart , John C. Forbes , Roland M. Crocker

Star formation from the interstellar medium of galactic disks is a basic process controlling the evolution of galaxies. Understanding the star formation rate in a local patch of a disk with a given gas mass is thus an important challenge…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-14 Michael J. Butler , Jonathan C. Tan , Romain Teyssier , Joakim Rosdahl , Sven Van Loo , Sarah Nickerson

AGN feedback is believed to play an important role in shaping a variety of observed galaxy properties, as well as the evolution of their stellar masses and star formation rates. In particular, in the current theoretical paradigm of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Fabio Fontanot , Anna Pasquali , Gabriella De Lucia , Frank C. van den Bosch , Rachel S. Somerville , Xi Kang

Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy evolution are increasingly able to produce realistic galaxies, but the largest hurdle remaining is in constructing subgrid models that accurately describe the behavior of stellar feedback.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Cameron Hummels , Greg Bryan , Britton Smith , Matthew Turk

The standard Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) models were originally developed based on results from semi-analytic and hydrodynamical galaxy formation models. Those models have since progressed, in particular to include AGN feedback to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-08 Nuala McCullagh , Peder Norberg , Shaun Cole , Violeta Gonzalez-Perez , Carlton Baugh , John Helly

Stars in galaxies form in giant molecular clouds that coalesce when the atomic hydrogen is converted into molecules. There are currently two dominant models for what property of the galactic disk determines its molecular fraction: either…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Michele Fumagalli , Mark R. Krumholz , Leslie K. Hunt

We use the EAGLE suite of hydrodynamical simulations to analyse accretion rates (and the breakdown of their constituent channels) onto haloes over cosmic time, comparing the behaviour of baryons and dark matter (DM). We also investigate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-19 Ruby J. Wright , Claudia del P. Lagos , Chris Power , Peter D. Mitchell

We compare the stellar masses of central and satellite galaxies predicted by three independent semianalytical models with observational results obtained from a large galaxy group catalogue constructed from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Lei Liu , Xiaohu Yang , H. J. Mo , Frank C. van den Bosch , Volker Springel