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We introduce a suite of thirty cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical zoom simulations of the formation of galaxies in isolated Milky Way mass dark haloes. These were carried out with the moving mesh code \textlcsc{AREPO}, together with a…

We present new fully self-consistent models of the formation and evolution of isolated dwarf galaxies. We have used the publicly available N-body/SPH code HYDRA, to which we have added a set of star formation criteria, and prescriptions for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sander Valcke , S. De Rijcke , H. Dejonghe

We construct the first comprehensive dynamical model for the high-quality subset of stellar kinematics of the Milky Way disc, with full 6D phase-space coordinates, provided by the Gaia Data Release 2. We adopt an axisymmetric approximation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-24 Maria Selina Nitschai , Michele Cappellari , Nadine Neumayer

We present a new comprehensive model of the physics of galaxy formation designed for large-scale hydrodynamical simulations of structure formation using the moving mesh code AREPO. Our model includes primordial and metal line cooling with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Mark Vogelsberger , Shy Genel , Debora Sijacki , Paul Torrey , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

Despite significant progress in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation, the role of subgrid physics in shaping the detailed properties of galaxies remains incompletely understood. In this work, we analyze two sets of zoom-in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-24 Jianhong Hu , Hang Yang , Liang Gao

With the ever increasing size and complexity of fully self-consistent simulations of galaxy formation within the framework of the cosmic web, the demands upon object finders for these simulations has simultaneously grown. To this extent we…

The long-standing challenge of creating a Milky Way-like disk galaxy from cosmological simulations has motivated significant developments in both numerical methods and physical models in recent years. We investigate these two fundamental…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 Qirong Zhu , Yuexing Li

The Millennium Run is the largest simulation of the formation of structure within the $\Lambda$CDM cosmogony so far carried out. It uses $10^{10}$ particles to follow the dark matter distribution in a cubic region 500$h^{-1}$Mpc on a side,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Lemson , the Virgo Consortium

We combine the Santa-Cruz Semi-Analytic Model (SAM) for galaxy formation and evolution with the circumgalactic medium (CGM) model presented in Faerman et al. (2020) to explore the CGM properties of $L^{*}$ galaxies. We use the SAM to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-30 Yakov Faerman , Viraj Pandya , Rachel S. Somerville , Amiel Sternberg

We present an overview of galaxy evolution across cosmic time in the Illustris Simulation. Illustris is an N-body/hydrodynamical simulation that evolves 2*1820^3 resolution elements in a (106.5Mpc)^3 box from cosmological initial conditions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-26 Shy Genel , Mark Vogelsberger , Volker Springel , Debora Sijacki , Dylan Nelson , Greg Snyder , Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez , Paul Torrey , Lars Hernquist

We present a multi-epoch analysis of the galaxy populations formed within the cosmological hydrodynamical simulations presented in Vogelsberger et al. (2013). These simulations explore the performance of a recently implemented feedback…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Paul Torrey , Mark Vogelsberger , Shy Genel , Debora Sijacki , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

An overview over the current status of modeling galaxies by means of numerical simulations is given. After a short description of how galaxies form in hierarchically clustering scenarios, success and failures of current simulations are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Steinmetz

We use a model of the Galactic fountain to simulate the neutral-hydrogen emission of the Milky Way Galaxy. The model was developed to account for data on external galaxies with sensitive HI data. For appropriate parameter values, the model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Marasco , F. Fraternali , J. J. Binney

We present a new semi-analytical model of galaxy formation, GECO (Galaxy Evolution COde), aimed at a better understanding of when and how the two processes of star formation and galaxy assembly have taken place. Our model is structured into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 E. Ricciardelli , A. Franceschini

We present the public release of the MultiDark-Galaxies: three distinct galaxy catalogues derived from one of the Planck cosmology MultiDark simulations (i.e. MDPL2, with a volume of (1 Gpc/$h$)$^{3}$ and mass resolution of $1.5 \times…

In cosmological simulations of large-scale structure star formation and feedback in galaxies are modelled by so-called sub-grid models, that represent a physically motivated approximation of processes occurring below the resolution limit.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-24 Eirini Batziou , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Klaus Dolag , Milena Valentini

We construct a dynamical model of the Milky Way disk from a data set, which combines Gaia EDR3 and APOGEE data throughout Galactocentric radii between $5.0\leq R\leq19.5$ kpc. We make use of the spherically-aligned Jeans Anisotropic Method…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-05 Maria Selina Nitschai , Anna-Christina Eilers , Nadine Neumayer , Michele Cappellari , Hans-Walter Rix

We present a new theoretical population synthesis model (the Galaxy Model) to examine and deal with large amounts of data from surveys of the Milky Way and to decipher the present and past structure and history of our own Galaxy. We assume…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 S. Pasetto , G. Natale , D. Kawata , C. Chiosi , J. A. S. Hunt , C. Brogliato

The hot ($>10^6$ K) phase of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) contains a large fraction of baryons in galaxies. It also retains signatures of the processes that shaped the galaxies, such as feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-08 Urmila Chadayammuri , Akos Bogdan , Benjamin Oppenheimer , Ralph Kraft , William Forman , Christine Jones

We present the Rhapsody-G suite of cosmological hydrodynamic AMR zoom simulations of ten massive galaxy clusters at the $M_{\rm vir}\sim10^{15}\,{\rm M}_\odot$ scale. These simulations include cooling and sub-resolution models for star…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Oliver Hahn , Davide Martizzi , Hao-Yi Wu , August E. Evrard , Romain Teyssier , Risa H. Wechsler