Hydrodynamical simulations of the galaxy population: enduring successes and outstanding challenges

RA Crain, F van de Voort - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
We review the progress in modeling the galaxy population in hydrodynamical simulations of
the ΛCDM cosmogony. State-of-the-art simulations now broadly reproduce the observed …

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 …

The IllustrisTNG simulations: public data release

D Nelson, V Springel, A Pillepich… - Computational …, 2019 - Springer
We present the full public release of all data from the TNG100 and TNG300 simulations of
the IllustrisTNG project. IllustrisTNG is a suite of large volume, cosmological, gravo …

First results from the TNG50 simulation: galactic outflows driven by supernovae and black hole feedback

D Nelson, A Pillepich, V Springel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present the new TNG50 cosmological, magnetohydrodynamical simulation–the third and
final volume of the IllustrisTNG project. This simulation occupies a unique combination of …

The star formation activity of IllustrisTNG galaxies: main sequence, UVJ diagram, quenched fractions, and systematics

M Donnari, A Pillepich, D Nelson… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We select galaxies from the IllustrisTNG hydrodynamical simulations (at 0≤ z≤ 2) and
characterize the shapes and evolutions of their UVJ and star formation rate–stellar mass …

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 …

The thesan project: properties of the intergalactic medium and its connection to reionization-era galaxies

E Garaldi, R Kannan, A Smith, V Springel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The high-redshift intergalactic medium (IGM) and the primeval galaxy population are rapidly
becoming the new frontier of extragalactic astronomy. We investigate the IGM properties and …

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 …

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 …