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The connection between halo gas acquisition through the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and galaxy star formation has long been studied. In this series of two papers, we put this interplay within the context of the galaxy environment on large…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-09 Sen Wang , Dandan Xu , Shengdong Lu , Zheng Cai , Maosheng Xiang , Shude Mao , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

Galaxy mergers are known to trigger bursts of central star formation, which should therefore lead to stellar mass growth in their inner regions. However, observational measurements of this `burst mass fraction' are scant. Here, we assemble…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-27 Sara L. Ellison , Leonardo Ferreira

The stellar disk size of a galaxy depends on the ratio of the disk stellar mass to the halo mass, $m_\star \equiv M_\star/M_{\rm dh}$, and the fraction of the dark halo angular momentum transferred to the stellar disk, $j_\star \equiv…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-21 Taku Okamura , Kazuhiro Shimasaku , Ryota Kawamata

We determine the character of orbits of stars moving in the meridional plane $(R,z)$ of an axially symmetric time-independent disk galaxy model with a spherical central nucleus. In particular, we try to reveal the influence of the value of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-28 Euaggelos E. Zotos

We conduct a systematic study of the angular momentum problem in numerical simulations of disk galaxy formation. We investigate the role of numerical resolution using a semi-cosmological setup which combines an efficient use of the number…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Franziska Piontek , Matthias Steinmetz

Previous studies found that stellar scattering by massive clumps can lead to the formation of exponential profiles in galaxy discs, but details on how a star is moved around have not been fully explained. We use a GADGET-2 simulation where…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-26 Jian Wu , Curtis Struck , Bruce G. Elmegreen , Elena D'Onghia

Mass and specific angular momentum are two fundamental physical parameters of galaxies. We present measurements of the baryonic mass and specific angular momentum of 11 void dwarf galaxies derived from neutral hydrogen (H{\sc i}) synthesis…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 Sushma Kurapati , Jayaram N. Chengalur , Simon Pustilnik , Peter Kamphuis

We measure the stellar specific angular momentum jstar=Jstar/Mstar in four nearby (z~0.1) disk galaxies that have stellar masses Mstar near the break M* of the galaxy mass function, but look like typical star-forming disks at z~2 in terms…

Angular momentum (AM) is a key parameter to understand galaxy formation and evolution. AM originates in tidal torques between proto-structures at turn around, and from this the specific AM is expected to scale as a power-law of slope 2/3…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-11 Francoise Combes

The effect of angular momentum on galaxy formation and evolution has been studied for several decades. Our recent two papers using IllustrisTNG-100 simulation have revealed the acquisition path of the angular momentum from large-scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-01 Sen Wang , Dandan Xu , Shengdong Lu , Cheng Li

Stellar winds govern the angular momentum evolution of solar-like stars throughout their main-sequence lifetime. The efficiency of this process depends on the geometry of the star's magnetic field. There has been a rapid increase recently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-11 Moira Jardine , Aline Vidotto , Victor See

We investigate the relationship between stellar and gas specific angular momentum $j$, stellar mass $M_{*}$ and optical morphology for a sample of 488 galaxies extracted from the SAMI Galaxy Survey. We find that $j$, measured within one…

Correlations between stellar chemistry and kinematics have long been used to gain insight into the evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy. Orbital angular momentum is a key physical parameter and it is often estimated from three-dimensional…

Gravitational interactions in very young high-density stellar clusters can to some degree change the angular momentum in the circumstellar discs surrounding initially the majority of stars. However, for most stars the cluster environment…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Pfalzner

The gas needed to sustain star formation in galaxies is supplied by the circumgalactic medium (CGM), which in turn is affected by accretion from large scales. In a series of two papers, we examine the interplay between a galaxy's ambient…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-17 Shengdong Lu , Dandan Xu , Sen Wang , Zheng Cai , Chuan He , C. Kevin Xu , Xiaoyang Xia , Shude Mao , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

We investigate the origin, the shape, the scatter, and the cosmic evolution in the observed relationship between specific angular momentum $j_\star$ and the stellar mass $M_\star$ in early-type (ETGs) and late-type galaxies (LTGs).…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 Jingjing Shi , Andrea Lapi , Claudia Mancuso , Huiyuan Wang , Luigi Danese

Until a decade ago, galaxy formation simulations were unable to simultaneously reproduce the observed angular momentum (AM) of galaxy disks and bulges. Improvements in the interstellar medium and stellar feedback modelling, together with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-01 Claudia del P. Lagos

By means of N-body simulations we investigate the impact of minor mergers on the angular momentum and dynamical properties of the merger remnant. Our simulations cover a range of initial orbital characteristics and gas-to-stellar mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Y. Qu , P. Di Matteo , M. D. Lehnert , W. van Driel , C. J. Jog

We study the origin of misalignments between the stellar and star-forming gas components of simulated galaxies in the EAGLE simulations. We focus on galaxies with stellar masses $\geq 10^9$ M$_\odot$ at 0$\leq$z$\leq$1. We compare the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-07 Catalina I. Casanueva , Claudia del P. Lagos , Nelson D. Padilla , Thomas A. Davison

The angular momentum of galaxies is routinely ascribed to a process of tidal torques acting during the early stages of gravitational collapse, and is predicted from the initial mass distribution using second-order perturbation theory and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ben Sugerman , F. J. Summers , Marc Kamionkowski