Understanding galaxy evolution through emission lines

LJ Kewley, DC Nicholls… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
We review the use of emission lines for understanding galaxy evolution, focusing on
excitation source, metallicity, ionization parameter, ISM pressure, and electron density. We …

De re metallica: the cosmic chemical evolution of galaxies

R Maiolino, F Mannucci - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2019 - Springer
The evolution of the content of heavy elements in galaxies, the relative chemical
abundances, their spatial distribution, and how these scale with various galactic properties …

A CEERS discovery of an accreting supermassive black hole 570 Myr after the Big Bang: identifying a progenitor of massive z> 6 quasars

RL Larson, SL Finkelstein, DD Kocevski… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery of an accreting supermassive black hole at z= 8.679. This galaxy,
denoted here as CEERS_1019, was previously discovered as a Lyα-break galaxy by …

The mass–metallicity and the fundamental metallicity relation revisited on a fully Te-based abundance scale for galaxies

M Curti, F Mannucci, G Cresci… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The relationships between stellar mass, gas-phase metallicity and star-formation rate (ie the
mass–metallicity, MZR, and the fundamental metallicity relation, FMR) in the local Universe …

The host galaxy and redshift of the repeating fast radio burst FRB 121102

SP Tendulkar, CG Bassa, JM Cordes… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The precise localization of the repeating fast radio burst (FRB 121102) has provided the first
unambiguous association (chance coincidence probability p≲ 3× 10− 4) of an FRB with an …

The EAGLE project: simulating the evolution and assembly of galaxies and their environments

J Schaye, RA Crain, RG Bower… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract We introduce the Virgo Consortium's Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their
Environments (EAGLE) project, a suite of hydrodynamical simulations that follow the …

Short-duration gamma-ray bursts

E Berger - Annual review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) display a bimodal duration distribution with a separation between
the short-and long-duration bursts at about 2 s. The progenitors of long GRBs have been …

Strong nebular line ratios in the spectra of z∼ 2–3 star forming galaxies: first results from KBSS-MOSFIRE

CC Steidel, GC Rudie, AL Strom, M Pettini… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present initial results of a deep near-IR spectroscopic survey covering the 15 fields of the
Keck Baryonic Structure Survey using the recently commissioned MOSFIRE spectrometer on …

A model for cosmological simulations of galaxy formation physics

M Vogelsberger, S Genel, D Sijacki… - Monthly Notices of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Radiation backgrounds at cosmic dawn: X-rays from compact binaries

P Madau, T Fragos - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We compute the expected X-ray diffuse background and radiative feedback on the
intergalactic medium (IGM) from X-ray binaries prior to and during the epoch of reionization …