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We present the new semi-analytic model of galaxy evolution, DARK SAGE, a heavily modified version of the publicly available SAGE code. The model is designed for detailed evolution of galactic discs. We evolve discs in a series of annuli…

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This paper describes a new publicly available codebase for modelling galaxy formation in a cosmological context, the "Semi-Analytic Galaxy Evolution" model, or SAGE for short. SAGE is a significant update to that used in Croton et al.…

Semi-analytical models (SAMs) are currently the best way to understand the formation of galaxies within the cosmic dark-matter structures. While they fairly well reproduce the local stellar mass functions, correlation functions and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-02-25 Morgane Cousin , Guilaine Lagache , Matthieu Bethermin , Jeremy Blaizot , Bruno Guiderdoni

Among the possible alternatives to the standard cosmological model ($\Lambda$CDM), coupled Dark Energy models postulate that Dark Energy (DE), seen as a dynamical scalar field, may interact with Dark Matter (DM), giving rise to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Fabio Fontanot , Marco Baldi , Volker Springel , Davide Bianchi

We combine the latest spectrally stacked data of 21-cm emission from the ALFALFA survey with an updated version of the Dark Sage semi-analytic model to investigate the relative contributions of secular and environmental astrophysical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-17 Adam R. H. Stevens , Toby Brown

We study dwarf galaxy formation at high redshift ($z\ge5$) using a suite of high- resolution, cosmological hydrodynamic simulations and a semi-analytic model (SAM). We focus on gas accretion, cooling and star formation in this work by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-07 Yuxiang Qin , Alan R. Duffy , Simon J. Mutch , Gregory B. Poole , Paul M. Geil , Andrei Mesinger , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

Semi-analytic models (SAMs) have been treating galaxy populations as dynamical systems for $\gtrsim50$ years, but their evolution equations remain poorly constrained. We introduce sapphire, a modular, automatically differentiable,…

Understanding how galaxy populations emerge and evolve from the growth of dark matter structure is a central challenge in galaxy formation theory. Semi-analytic models (SAMs) provide an efficient framework to address this problem, but…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-05 Xuejie Li , Zhongxu Zhai , Xiaohu Yang , Andrew Benson , Yun Wang

Semi-analytic models (SAMs) systematically predict higher stellar-mass scatter at a given halo mass than hydrodynamical simulations and most empirical models. Our goal is to investigate the physical origin of this scatter by exploring…

Upcoming large galaxy surveys will subject the standard cosmological model, $\Lambda$CDM, to new precision tests. These can be tightened considerably if theoretical models of galaxy formation are available that can predict galaxy clustering…

We present a new exploratory framework to model galaxy formation and evolution in a hierarchical universe by using machine learning (ML). Our motivations are two-fold: (1) presenting a new, promising technique to study galaxy formation, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-30 Harshil M. Kamdar , Matthew J. Turk , Robert J. Brunner

We describe a new, free and open source semi-analytic model of galaxy formation, Galacticus. The Galacticus model was designed to be highly modular to facilitate expansion and the exploration of alternative descriptions of key physical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Andrew J. Benson

Several semi-analytic models (SAMs) try to explain how galaxies form, evolve and interact inside the dark matter large-scale structure. These SAMs can be tested by comparing their predictions for galaxy-galaxy-galaxy-lensing (G3L), which is…

We directly compare predictions of dwarf galaxy properties in a semi-analytic model (SAM) with those extracted from a high-resolution hydrodynamic simulation. We focus on galaxies with halo masses of 1e9<Mvir/Msol<1e11 at high redshift…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-29 Yuxiang Qin , Alan R. Duffy , Simon J. Mutch , Gregory B. Poole , Andrei Mesinger , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

Semi-analytic models (SAMs) are a promising means of tracking the physical processes associated with galaxy formation, but many of their approximations have not been rigorously tested. As part of the SMAUG (Simulating Multiscale…

Recent observations of the distant Universe suggest that much of the stellar mass of bright galaxies was already in place at $z>1$. This presents a challenge for models of galaxy formation because massive halos are assembled late in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. G. Bower , A. J. Benson , R. Malbon , J. C. Helly , C. S. Frenk , C. M. Baugh , S. Cole , C. G. Lacey

The new generation of upcoming deep photometric and spectroscopic surveys will allow us to measure the astrophysical properties of faint galaxies in massive clusters. This would demand to produce simulations of galaxy clusters with better…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-29 Jonathan S. Gómez , Gustavo Yepes , A. Jiménez Muñoz , Weiguang Cui

Next-generation photometric and spectroscopic surveys will detect faint galaxies in massive clusters, advancing our understanding of galaxy formation in dense environments. Comparing these observations with theoretical models requires…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-19 Jonathan S. Gómez , Tomas Hough , Alejandro Jiménez Muñoz , Gustavo Yepes , Weiguang Cui , Sofía A. Cora

We study the dust evolution in galaxies by implementing a detailed dust prescription in the SAGE semi-analytical model for galaxy formation. The new model, called Dusty SAGE, follows the condensation of dust in the ejecta of type II…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-18 Dian P. Triani , Manodeep Sinha , Darren J. Croton , Camilla Pacifici , Eli Dwek

We present results from the semi-analytic model of galaxy formation SAG applied on the MultiDark simulation MDPL2. SAG features an updated supernova (SN) feedback scheme and a robust modelling of the environmental effects on satellite…

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