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Shells are low surface brightness tidal debris that appear as interleaved caustics with large opening angles, often situated on both sides of the galaxy center. In this paper, we study the incidence and formation processes of shell galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-23 Ana-Roxana Pop , Annalisa Pillepich , Nicola C. Amorisco , Lars Hernquist

We present a comprehensive suite of high-resolution (parsec-scale), idealised (non-cosmological) galaxy merger simulations (24 runs, stellar mass ratio ~2.5:1) to investigate the connection between interaction-induced star formation and the…

The cessation of star formation in galaxies, known as 'quenching', is a complex, multi-scale process which has been theorized to be linked to galaxy mergers. In this paper, we investigate the potential role of mergers in quenching galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-16 Camilo A. Casimiro , Asa F. L. Bluck , Paul Goubert , Thomas Pinto Franco , Joanna M. Piotrowska

Galaxy interaction and merging have clear effects on the systems involved. We find an increase in the star formation rate (SFR), potential ignition of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and significant morphology changes. However, at what stage…

We investigate the disk formation process in the TNG50 simulation, examining the profiles of SFR surface density ($\Sigma_{\rm SFR}$), gas inflow and outflow, and the evolution of the angular momentum of inflowing gas particles. The TNG50…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-07 Enci Wang , Simon J. Lilly

We present image-based evolution of galaxy mergers from the Illustris cosmological simulation at 12 time-steps over 0.5 < z < 5. To do so, we created approximately one million synthetic deep Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space…

We introduce the new cosmological simulation project cosmosTNG, a first-of-its-kind suite of constrained galaxy formation simulations for the universe at Cosmic Noon ($z\sim 2$). cosmosTNG simulates a $0.2$ deg$^2$ patch of the COSMOS field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 Chris Byrohl , Dylan Nelson , Benjamin Horowitz , Khee-Gan Lee , Annalisa Pillepich

We carried out a statistical analysis of galaxy pairs in hydrodynamical Lambda-CDM simulations. We focused on the triggering of star formation by interactions and analysed the enhancement of star formation activity in terms of orbital…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 M. Josefa Perez , Patricia B. Tissera , Diego G. Lambas , Cecilia Scannapieco

We construct a sample of 75,863 star forming galaxies with robust metallicity and star formation rate measurements from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7), from which we select a clean sample of compact group (CG)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jillian M. Scudder , Sara L. Ellison , J. Trevor Mendel

Observations show that star-forming galaxies reside on a tight three-dimensional plane between mass, gas-phase metallicity and star formation rate (SFR), which can be explained by the interplay between metal-poor gas inflows, SFR and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Jorryt Matthee , Joop Schaye

We present the first comparison of observed stellar continuum spectra of high-redshift galaxies and mock galaxy spectra generated from hydrodynamical simulations. The mock spectra are produced from the IllustrisTNG TNG100 simulation…

We present a catalog of about 25,000 images of massive ($M_{\star} \ge 10^9 M_{\odot}$) galaxies at redshift $3 \leq z \leq 6$ from the TNG50 cosmological simulation, tailored for observations at multiple wavelengths carried out with JWST.…

It is still a challenge to assess the merger fraction of galaxies at different cosmic epochs in order to probe the evolution of their mass assembly. Using the Illustris cosmological simulations, we investigate the relation between the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-30 E. Ventou , T. Contini , N. Bouché , B. Epinat , J. Brinchmann , H. Inami , J. Richard , I. Schroetter , G. Soucail , M. Steinmetz , P. Weilbacher

We investigate the internal and external mechanisms that regulate and quench star formation (SF) in galaxies at $z \sim 0.3$ using MAGPI observations and the EAGLE, Magneticum, and IllustrisTNG cosmological simulations. Using SimSpin to…

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,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Tara Dacunha , Matthew Belyakov , Susmita Adhikari , Tae-hyeon Shin , Samuel Goldstein , Bhuvnesh Jain

In this work, we establish fundamental relations, for the first time, in isolated systems in the local universe (with 0.005$\leq$z$\leq$0.080), which can give insight into the underlying physics of star-formation. We use a sample of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-26 M. Argudo-Fernández , S. Duarte Puertas , S. Verley

Using data from the mid-infrared to millimeter wavelengths for individual galaxies and for stacked ensembles at 0.5<z<2, we derive robust estimates of dust masses (Mdust) for main sequence (MS) galaxies, which obey a tight correlation…

We study the specific star formation rate (SSFR) and its evolution at $z\gtsim 4$, in models of galaxy formation, where the star formation is driven by cold accretion flows. We show that constant star formation and feedback efficiencies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Sadegh Khochfar , Joseph Silk

We study the connection between the observed star formation rate-stellar mass (SFR-$M_*$) relation and the evolution of the stellar mass function (SMF) by means of a subhalo abundance matching technique coupled to merger trees extracted…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-15 E. Contini , X. Kang , A. D. Romeo , Q. Xia , S. K. Yi

Low surface brightness galactic stellar halos provide a challenging but promising path towards unraveling the past assembly histories of individual galaxies. Here, we present detailed comparisons between the stellar halos of Milky Way-mass…