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We use IllustrisTNG, a suite of gravity and MHD simulations, to study the demographics and properties of jellyfish galaxies in the full cosmological context. By jellyfish galaxies, we mean satellites orbiting in massive groups and clusters…

In the era of precision cosmology and ever-improving cosmological simulations, a better understanding of different galaxy components such as bulges and discs will give us new insight into galactic formation and evolution. Based on the fact…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-17 Yesukhei Jagvaral , Duncan Campbell , Rachel Mandelbaum , Markus Michael Rau

We revisited the problem of mixing in a gravitational N-body system from the point of view of the ordering of coarse-grained cells in the one-particle energy space, here denoted {\it energy ranking preservation} (ERP). This effect has been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Christine C. Dantas

In recent years, numerical simulations have become indispensable for addressing complex astrophysical problems. The MagnetoHydroDynamics (MHD) framework represents a key tool for investigating the dynamical evolution of astrophysical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-18 Giancarlo Mattia , Daniele Crocco , David Melon Fuksman , Matteo Bugli , Vittoria Berta , Eleonora Puzzoni , Andrea Mignone , Bhargav Vaidya

We test cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation regarding the properties of the Blue Cloud (BC), Green Valley (GV) and Red Sequence (RS), as measured on the 4000$\small{ \mathring {\mathrm A}}$ break strength vs stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 J. Angthopo , A. Negri , I. Ferreras , I. G. de la Rosa , C. Dalla Vecchia , A. Pillepich

We use the IllustrisTNG (TNG) cosmological, hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation to measure the velocity dispersion profiles of dark matter and star particles in Milky Way-mass, galaxy group, and cluster-scale dark matter halos.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-19 Sownak Bose , Abraham Loeb

The thermodynamic structure of hot gas in galaxy clusters is sensitive to astrophysical processes and typically difficult to model with galaxy formation simulations. We explore the fraction of cool-core (CC) clusters in a large sample of…

The physical properties of the intracluster medium (ICM) reflect signatures of the underlying gravitational potential, mergers and strong interactions with other halos and satellite galaxies, as well as galactic feedback from supernovae and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-27 Urmila Chadayammuri , Lukas Eisert , Annalisa Pillepich , Katrin Lehle , Mohammadreza Ayromlou , Dylan Nelson

Stellar halos in early-type galaxies (ETGs) are shaped by their accretion and merger histories. We use a sample of 1114 ETGs in the TNG100 simulation with stellar masses $10^{10.3}\leq M_{*}/M_\odot\leq 10^{12}$, selected at z=0 within the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 C. Pulsoni , O. Gerhard , M. Arnaboldi , A. Pillepich , V. Rodriguez-Gomez , D. Nelson , L. Hernquist , V. Springel

We investigate the formation history of massive disk galaxies in hydro-dynamical simulation--the IllustrisTNG, to study why massive disk galaxies survive through cosmic time. 83 galaxies in the simulation are selected with M$_{*,z=0}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-09 Guangquan Zeng , Lan Wang , Liang Gao

We present the ``Cosmological Jellyfish'' project - a citizen-science classification program to identify jellyfish galaxies within the IllustrisTNG cosmological simulations. Jellyfish (JF) are satellite galaxies that exhibit long trailing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-20 Elad Zinger , Gandhali Joshi , Annalisa Pillepich , Eric Rohr , Dylan Nelson

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 examine the effectiveness of identifying distinct evolutionary histories in IllustrisTNG-100 galaxies using unsupervised machine learning with Gaussian Mixture Models. We focus on how clustering compressed metallicity histories and star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-18 Tristan Sohrab Fraser , Rita Tojeiro , Harry Chittenden

We create the first large-scale mock spectroscopic survey of gas absorption sightlines traversing the interstellar medium (ISM), circumgalactic medium (CGM), and intergalactic medium (IGM) surrounding galaxies of virtual Universes. That is,…

Galaxies are theorized to form and co-evolve with their dark matter halos, such that their stellar masses and halo masses should be well-correlated. However, it is not known whether other observable galaxy features, such as their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-19 Austin J. Larson , John F. Wu , Craig Jones

Cosmological simulations have been used to study interacting galaxies as a function of galaxy pair separation, enabling comparisons with observational studies of galaxy pairs. The study of interacting galaxies as a function of time (i.e.…

Galaxy cluster mass functions are a function of cosmology, but mass is not a direct observable, and systematic errors abound in all its observable proxies. Mass-free inference can bypass this challenge, but it requires large suites of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-19 Urmila Chadayammuri , Michelle Ntampaka , John ZuHone , Àkos Bogdàn , Ralph Kraft

Many observed disc galaxies harbour a central bar. In the standard cosmological paradigm, galactic bars should be slowed down by dynamical friction from the dark matter halo. This friction depends on the galaxy's physical properties in a…

The early release science results from $\textit{JWST}$ have yielded an unexpected abundance of high-redshift luminous galaxies that seems to be in tension with current theories of galaxy formation. However, it is currently difficult to draw…

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