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In this fourth paper from the AGORA Collaboration, we study the evolution down to redshift $z=2$ and below of a set of cosmological zoom-in simulations of a Milky Way mass galaxy by eight of the leading hydrodynamic simulation codes. We…

Classifying galaxies is an essential step for studying their structures and dynamics. Using GalaxyZoo2 (GZ2) fractions thresholds, we collect 545 and 11,735 samples in non-galaxy and galaxy classes, respectively. We compute the Zernike…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-20 Hamed Ghaderi , Nasibe Alipour , Hossein Safari

Galaxy mergers are thought to be one of the main mechanisms of the mass assembly of galaxies. Recently, many works have suggested a possible increase in the fraction of major mergers in the early Universe, reviving the debate on which…

Encoded within the morphological structure of galaxies are clues related to their formation and evolutionary history. Recent advances pertaining to the statistics of galaxy morphology include sophisticated measures of concentration (C),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 K. M. Hambleton , B. K. Gibson , C. B. Brook , G. S. Stinson , C. J. Conselice , J. Bailin , H. Couchman , J. Wadsley

We investigate the role that dry mergers play in the build-up of massive galaxies within the cold dark matter paradigm. Implementing an empirical shut-off mass scale for star formation, we find a nearly constant dry merger rate of $ \sim 6…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Khochfar , J. Silk

We estimate the evolution of the galaxy-galaxy merger fraction for $M_\star>10^{10.5}M_\odot$ galaxies over $0.25<z<1$ in the $\sim$18.6 deg$^2$ deep CLAUDS+HSC-SSP surveys. We do this by training a Random Forest Classifier to identify…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-09 Nathalie Thibert , Marcin Sawicki , Andy Goulding , Stephane Arnouts , Jean Coupon , Stephen Gwyn

We introduce a new effective strategy to assign group and cluster membership probabilities $P_{mem}$ to galaxies using photometric redshift information. Large dynamical ranges both in halo mass and cosmic time are considered. The method…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Gianluca Castignani , Christophe Benoist

We present a quantitative study of the X-ray morphology of galaxy clusters, as a function of their detection method and redshift. We analyze two separate samples of galaxy clusters: a sample of 36 clusters at 0.35 < z < 0.9 selected in the…

Galaxy mergers are expected to have a significant role in the mass assembly of galaxies in the early Universe, but there are very few observational constraints on the merger history of galaxies at $z>2$. We present the first study of galaxy…

In the standard Cold Dark Matter model of structure formation, massive clusters form via the merger of smaller clusters. N-body/hydrodynamical simulations of merging galaxy clusters have shown that mergers can temporarily boost the X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Scott W. Randall , Craig L. Sarazin , Paul M. Ricker

We present an analysis of the morphological classification of 89 luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) from the Great Observatories All-sky LIRG Survey (GOALS) sample using non-parametric coefficients and compare their morphology as a function…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-15 A. Psychogyios , V. Charmandaris , T. Diaz- Santos , L. Armus , S. Haan , J. Howell , E. Le Floc'h , S. M. Petty , A. S. Evans

We investigate the evolutional and environmental effects on star formation efficiency for more than 400 merging galaxies. The ~400 merging systems, with photometric redshifts smaller than 0.7, are obtained from a catalog of ~15000…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Mei-Ling Huang , Chorng-Yuan Hwang

A promising method for measuring the cosmological parameter combination fsigma_8 is to compare observed peculiar velocities with peculiar velocities predicted from a galaxy density field using perturbation theory. We use N-body simulations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Amber M. Hollinger , Michael J. Hudson

Morphological classification conveys abundant information on the formation, evolution, and environment of galaxies. In this work, we refine the two-step galaxy morphological classification framework ({\tt\string USmorph}), which employs a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-25 Jie Song , GuanWen Fang , Shuo Ba , Zesen Lin , Yizhou Gu , Chichun Zhou , Tao Wang , Cai-Na Hao , Guilin Liu , Hongxin Zhang , Yao Yao , Xu Kong

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

(Abridged) Luminous Compact Galaxies (LCGs) (M_B < -20, R_{1/2} < 4.5kpc and EW_{0}(OII) >15\AA) constitute one of the most rapidly evolving galaxy populations over the last ~8 Gyr history of the universe. Due to their inherently compact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Rawat , A. K. Kembhavi , F. Hammer , H. Flores , S. Barway

We present mock JWST observations for more than 250,000 different galaxies from the Astrid simulation with $3 \leq z \leq 6$. The mock observations are made using the BPASS stellar SED model, and a simple dust model. They are then viewed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-28 Patrick LaChance , Rupert Croft , Yueying Ni , Nianyi Chen , Tiziana Di Matteo , Simeon Bird

Identifying galaxy clustering at high redshift (i.e. z > 1) is essential to our understanding of the current cosmological model. However, at increasing redshift, clusters evolve considerably in star-formation activity and so are less likely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 L. J. M. Davies , M. N. Bremer , E. R. Stanway , K. Husband , M. D. Lehnert , E. J. A. Mannering

We study the environment in which a galaxy lies (i.e. field or group) and its connection with the morphology of the galaxy. This is done by examining the distribution of parametric and non-parametric statistics across the star-formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-24 W. J. Pearson , L. Wang , S. Brough , B. W. Holwerda , A. M. Hopkins , J. Loveday

We present a novel approach to identify galaxy clusters that are undergoing a merger using a deep learning approach. This paper uses massive galaxy clusters spanning $0 \leq z \leq 2$ from \textsc{The Three Hundred} project, a suite of…

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