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We investigate the clustering properties of a complete sample of 10^5 star-forming galaxies drawn from the SDSS DR4. On scales less than 100 kpc, the amplitude of the correlation function exhibits a strong dependence on the specific star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Cheng Li , Guinevere Kauffmann , Timothy Heckman , Y. P. Jing , Simon D. M. White

Many theoretical and observational studies have suggested that galaxy mergers may trigger enhanced star formation or active galactic nuclei (AGN) activity. We present an analysis of merging and nonmerging galaxies from $0.2 \leq z \leq 3$…

Almost two-thirds of disk galaxies in the local universe host bars, which serve as important drivers of secular evolutionary processes. While cosmological simulations are powerful tools to study the formation and evolution of galaxies, they…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-09 Dongyao Zhao , Min Du , Luis C. Ho , Victor P. Debattista , Jingjing Shi

We have generated synthetic images of $\sim$27,000 galaxies from the IllustrisTNG and the original Illustris hydrodynamic cosmological simulations, designed to match Pan-STARRS observations of $\log_{10}(M_{\ast}/{\rm M}_{\odot}) \approx…

We use pair and environmental classifications of ~ 211,000 star-forming galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, along with a suite of merger simulations, to investigate the enhancement of star formation as a function of separation in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 David R. Patton , Paul Torrey , Sara L. Ellison , J. Trevor Mendel , Jillian M. Scudder

Tidal interactions between galaxies can trigger star formation, which contributes to the global star formation rate density of the universe and could be a factor in the transformation of blue, star-forming galaxies to red, quiescent…

We use the IllustrisTNG simulations to explore the dynamic scaling relation between massive clusters and their central galaxies (BCGs). The Illustris TNG300-1 simulation we use includes 280 massive clusters with $M_{200} > 10^{14}$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Jubee Sohn , Margaret J. Geller , Mark Vogelsberger , Ivana Damjanov

We use simulated cluster member galaxies from Illustris TNG300-1 to develop a technique for measuring the galaxy cluster mass accretion rate (MAR) that can be applied directly to observations. We analyze 1318 IllustrisTNG clusters of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 Michele Pizzardo , Margaret J. Geller , Scott J. Kenyon , Ivana Damjanov , Antonaldo Diaferio

Galaxy formation theories predict that galaxy shapes and angular momenta have non-random alignments with the cosmic web. This leads to so-called intrinsic alignment between pairs of galaxies, which is important to quantify as a nuisance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-13 Benjamin Zhang , Khee-Gan Lee , Alex Krolewski , Jingjing Shi , Benjamin Horowitz , Robin Kooistra

Galaxy mergers are traditionally one of the favoured mechanisms for quenching star formation. To test this paradigm in the context of modern cosmological simulations, we use the IllustrisTNG simulation to investigate the impact of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-21 Salvatore Quai , Maan H. Hani , Sara L. Ellison , David R. Patton , Joanna Woo

We explore the nature of low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) in the hydrodynamic cosmological simulation TNG100 of the IllustrisTNG project, selecting a sample of LSBGs ($r$-band effective surface brightness $\mu_r > 22.0$ mag…

We study how optical galaxy morphology depends on mass and star formation rate (SFR) in the Illustris Simulation. To do so, we measure automated galaxy structures in 10808 simulated galaxies at z=0 with stellar masses 10^9.7 < M_*/M_sun <…

There is a severe tension between the observed star formation rate (SFR) - stellar mass (${\rm M}_{\star}$) relations reported by different authors at $z = 1-4$. In addition, the observations have not been successfully reproduced by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-29 A. Katsianis , V Gonzalez , D. Barrientos , X. Yang , C. D. P. Lagos , J. Schaye , P. Camps , A. Trčka , M. Baes , M. Stalevski , G. A. Blanc , T. Theuns

We compare stellar mass surface density, metallicity, age, and line-of-sight velocity dispersion profiles in massive ($M_*\geq10^{10.5}\,\mathrm{M_\odot}$) present-day early-type galaxies (ETGs) from the MaNGA survey with simulated galaxies…

We investigate the evolution of the galaxy Star Formation Rate Function (SFRF) and Cosmic Star Formation Rate Density (CSFRD) of $z\sim 0-8 $ galaxies in the Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments (EAGLE) simulations. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-20 A. Katsianis , G. Blanc , C. P. Lagos , N. Tejos , R. G. Bower , A. Alavi , V. Gonzalez , T. Theuns , M. Schaller , S. Lopez

The infrared (IR) emission of M_* galaxies (10^{10.4} < M_{star} < 10^{11.0} M_\sun) in galaxy pairs, derived using data obtained in Herschel (PEP/HerMES) and Spitzer (S-COSMOS) surveys, is compared to that of single disk galaxies in well…

The star formation rate function (SFRF) and specific star formation rate function (sSFRF) from the observation are impacted by the Eddington bias, due to the uncertainties on the estimated SFR. We develop a novel method to correct the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-13 Ping Zhao , Haojie Xu , Antonios Katsianis , Xiaohu Yang

We simulate stacked observations of nearby hot X-ray coronae associated with galaxies in the EAGLE and Illustris-TNG hydrodynamic simulations. A forward modeling pipeline is developed to predict 4-year eROSITA observations and stacked image…

At fixed galaxy stellar mass, there is a clear observational connection between structural asymmetry and offset from the star forming main sequence, $\Delta$SFMS. Herein, we use the TNG50 simulation to investigate the relative roles of…

We introduce the first two simulations of the IllustrisTNG project, a next generation of cosmological magnetohydrodynamical simulations, focusing on the optical colors of galaxies. We explore TNG100, a rerun of the original Illustris box,…