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We study the population of galaxies around galaxy clusters in the hydrodynamic simulation suite IllustrisTNG 300-1 to study the signatures of their evolutionary history on observable properties. We measure the radial number density profile,…

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Superthin galaxies are observed to have stellar disks with extremely small minor-to-major axis ratios. In this work, we investigate the formation of superthin galaxies in the TNG100 simulation. We trace the merger history and investigate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-21 Jianhong Hu , Dandan Xu , Cheng Li

We use stripped-down versions of three semi-analytic galaxy formation models to study the influence of different assumptions about gas cooling and galaxy mergers. By running the three models on identical sets of merger trees extracted from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-07 Gabriella De Lucia , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Andrew J. Benson , Fabio Fontanot , Pierluigi Monaco

We carry out a comparison study on the bar structure in the Illustris-1 and TNG100 simulations. At $z=0$, 8.9\% of 1232 disc galaxies with stellar mass $>10^{10.5}M_{\odot}$ in Illustris-1 are barred, while the numbers are 55\% of 1269 in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-05 Ze-Bang Zhou , Weishan Zhu , Yang Wang , Long-Long Feng

The intrinsic shape of galactic bulges in nearby galaxies provides crucial information to separate bulge types. We intended to derive accurate constraints to the intrinsic shape of bulges to provide new clues on their formation mechanisms…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-07 L. Costantin , J. Méndez-Abreu , E. M. Corsini , M. C. Eliche-Moral , T. Tapia , L. Morelli , E. Dalla Bontà , A. Pizzella

We present a new evolutionary model for the far-UV to sub-mm properties of the galaxy population. This combines a semi-analytic galaxy formation model based on hierarchical clustering (GALFORM) with a spectro-photometric code which includes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. L. Granato , C. G. Lacey , L. Silva , A. Bressan , C. M. Baugh , S. Cole , C. S. Frenk

The morphology of galaxies gives essential constraints on the models of galaxy evolution. The morphology of the features in the low-surface-brightness regions of galaxies has not been fully explored yet because of observational…

Identifying merging galaxies is an important - but difficult - step in galaxy evolution studies. We present random forest classifications of galaxy mergers from simulated JWST images based on various standard morphological parameters. We…

The huge size and uniformity of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey makes possible an exacting test of current models of galaxy formation. We compare the predictions of the GALFORM semi-analytical galaxy formation model for the luminosities,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-01 J. E. Gonzalez , C. G. Lacey , C. M. Baugh , C. S. Frenk , A. J. Benson

Intrinsic galaxy alignments constitute the major astrophysical systematic of forthcoming weak gravitational lensing surveys but also yield unique insights into galaxy formation and evolution. We build analytic models for the distribution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-07 B. Joachimi , E. Semboloni , S. Hilbert , P. E. Bett , J. Hartlap , H. Hoekstra , P. Schneider

The topology of large scale structure is studied as a function of galaxy type using the genus statistic. In hydrodynamical cosmological CDM simulations, galaxies form on caustic surfaces (Zeldovich pancakes) then slowly drain onto filaments…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 J. Richard Gott , III , Renyue Cen , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

During the merger of two galaxies, the resulting system undergoes violent relaxation and seeks stable equilibrium. However, the details of this evolution are not fully understood. Using Illustris simulation, we probe two physically related…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 Anthony M. Young , Liliya L. R. Williams , Jens Hjorth

We examine the accretion and merger histories of central and satellite galaxies in a smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) cosmological simulation that resolves galaxies down to 7e9 M[Sun]. Most friends-of-friends halos in the simulation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Vimal Simha , David H. Weinberg , Romeel Dave , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Neal Katz , Dusan Keres

(Abridged) We compared the quantified morphological properties of 37 intermediate redshift MgII absorption selected galaxies to the properties of the absorbing halo gas, observed in the spectra of background quasars. The galaxy morphologies…

We study how statistical properties of supermassive black holes depend on the frequency and conditions for massive seed formation in cosmological simulations of structure formation. We develop a novel method to recalculate detailed growth…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-30 Colin DeGraf , Debora Sijacki

A semi-analytic model is proposed that couples the Press-Schechter formalism for the number of galaxies with a prescription for galaxy-galaxy interactions that enables to follow the evolution of galaxy morphologies along the Hubble…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christophe Balland , Julien E. G. Devriendt , Joe Silk

The most massive and luminous galaxies in the Universe serve as powerful probes to study the formation of structure, the assembly of mass, and cosmology. However, their detailed formation and evolution is still barely understood. Here we…

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

Semi-analytical models (SAMs) are currently the best way to understand the formation of galaxies within the cosmic dark-matter structures. While they fairly well reproduce the local stellar mass functions, correlation functions and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-02-25 Morgane Cousin , Guilaine Lagache , Matthieu Bethermin , Jeremy Blaizot , Bruno Guiderdoni

We present predictions for the two-point correlation function of galaxy clustering as a function of stellar mass, computed using two new versions of the GALFORM semi-analytic galaxy formation model. These models make use of a high…