Simulating groups and the intragroup medium: the surprisingly complex and rich middle ground between clusters and galaxies

BD Oppenheimer, A Babul, Y Bahé, IS Butsky… - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
Galaxy groups are more than an intermediate scale between clusters and halos hosting
individual galaxies, they are crucial laboratories capable of testing a range of astrophysics …

Emergent constraints on climate sensitivities

MS Williamson, CW Thackeray, PM Cox, A Hall… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Despite major advances in climate science over the last 30 years, persistent uncertainties in
projections of future climate change remain. Climate projections are produced with …

On the quenching of star formation in observed and simulated central galaxies: evidence for the role of integrated AGN feedback

JM Piotrowska, AFL Bluck, R Maiolino… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, we investigate how massive central galaxies cease their star formation by
comparing theoretical predictions from cosmological simulations: EAGLE, Illustris, and …

Quenched fractions in the IllustrisTNG simulations: the roles of AGN feedback, environment, and pre-processing

M Donnari, A Pillepich, GD Joshi… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We use the IllustrisTNG hydrodynamical simulations to show how the fractions of quenched
galaxies vary across different environments and cosmic time, and to quantify the role AGN …

Resolving small-scale cold circumgalactic gas in TNG50

D Nelson, P Sharma, A Pillepich… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We use the high-resolution TNG50 cosmological magnetohydrodynamical simulation to
explore the properties and origin of cold circumgalactic medium (CGM) gas around massive …

Jellyfish galaxies with the IllustrisTNG simulations–when, where, and for how long does ram pressure stripping of cold gas occur?

E Rohr, A Pillepich, D Nelson, E Zinger… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Jellyfish galaxies are prototypical examples of satellite galaxies undergoing strong ram
pressure stripping (RPS). We analyse the evolution of 512 unique, first-infalling jellyfish …

The circumgalactic medium of Milky Way-like galaxies in the TNG50 simulation–I: halo gas properties and the role of SMBH feedback

R Ramesh, D Nelson, A Pillepich - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We analyse the physical properties of gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of 132 Milky
Way (MW)-like galaxies at z= 0 from the cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical simulation …

Quenched fractions in the IllustrisTNG simulations: comparison with observations and other theoretical models

M Donnari, A Pillepich, D Nelson… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We make an in-depth comparison of the IllustrisTNG cosmological simulations with
observed quenched fractions of central and satellite galaxies, for M stars= 109–12 M⊙ at …

Cosmological simulations predict that AGN preferentially live in gas-rich, star-forming galaxies despite effective feedback

SR Ward, CM Harrison, T Costa… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Negative feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is the leading mechanism for the
quenching of massive galaxies in the vast majority of modern galaxy evolution models …

How do central and satellite galaxies quench?–Insights from spatially resolved spectroscopy in the MaNGA survey

AFL Bluck, R Maiolino, JM Piotrowska… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We investigate how star formation quenching proceeds within central and satellite galaxies
using spatially resolved spectroscopy from the SDSS-IV MaNGA DR15. We adopt a …