The evolution of the star-forming interstellar medium across cosmic time

LJ Tacconi, R Genzel, A Sternberg - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Over the past decade, increasingly robust estimates of the dense molecular gas content in
galaxy populations between redshift z= 0 and the peak of cosmic galaxy/star formation (z∼ …

Galaxy formation theory

AJ Benson - Physics Reports, 2010 - Elsevier
We review the current theory of how galaxies form within the cosmological framework
provided by the cold dark matter paradigm for structure formation. Beginning with the pre …

The EAGLE simulations of galaxy formation: Public release of halo and galaxy catalogues

S McAlpine, JC Helly, M Schaller, JW Trayford… - Astronomy and …, 2016 - Elsevier
We present the public data release of halo and galaxy catalogues extracted from the eagle
suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation. These simulations …

The merger rate of galaxies in the Illustris simulation: a comparison with observations and semi-empirical models

V Rodriguez-Gomez, S Genel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We have constructed merger trees for galaxies in the Illustris simulation by directly tracking
the baryonic content of subhaloes. These merger trees are used to calculate the galaxy …

The stellar mass assembly of galaxies in the Illustris simulation: growth by mergers and the spatial distribution of accreted stars

V Rodriguez-Gomez, A Pillepich… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We use the Illustris simulation to study the relative contributions of in situ star formation and
stellar accretion to the build-up of galaxies over an unprecedentedly wide range of masses …

The Sydney-AAO multi-object integral field spectrograph

SM Croom, JS Lawrence… - Monthly Notices of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
We demonstrate a novel technology that combines the power of the multi-object
spectrograph with the spatial multiplex advantage of an integral field spectrograph (IFS). The …

A redshift-independent efficiency model: star formation and stellar masses in dark matter halos at z≳ 4

S Tacchella, S Bose, C Conroy… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore the connection between the UV luminosity functions (LFs) of high-z galaxies and
the distribution of stellar masses and star formation histories (SFHs) in their host dark matter …

Gravitationally consistent halo catalogs and merger trees for precision cosmology

PS Behroozi, RH Wechsler, HY Wu… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new algorithm for generating merger trees and halo catalogs which explicitly
ensures consistency of halo properties (mass, position, and velocity) across time steps. Our …

Toward a halo mass function for precision cosmology: The Limits of universality

J Tinker, AV Kravtsov, A Klypin… - The Astrophysical …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We measure the mass function of dark matter halos in a large set of collisionless
cosmological simulations of flat ΛCDM cosmology and investigate its evolution at z\lesssim …

Minor mergers and the size evolution of elliptical galaxies

T Naab, PH Johansson, JP Ostriker - The Astrophysical Journal, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Using a high-resolution hydrodynamical cosmological simulation of the formation of a
massive spheroidal galaxy we show that elliptical galaxies can be very compact and …