The impact of individual nuclear properties on r-process nucleosynthesis

MR Mumpower, R Surman, GC McLaughlin… - Progress in Particle and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The astrophysical rapid neutron capture process or 'r process' of nucleosynthesis is believed
to be responsible for the production of approximately half the heavy element abundances …

The faintest dwarf galaxies

JD Simon - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The lowest luminosity (L) Milky Way satellite galaxies represent the extreme lower limit of the
galaxy luminosity function. These ultra-faint dwarfs are the oldest, most dark matter …

FIRE-2 simulations: physics versus numerics in galaxy formation

PF Hopkins, A Wetzel, D Kereš… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) project explores feedback in
cosmological galaxy formation simulations. Previous FIRE simulations used an identical …

Ultrafaint dwarfs in a Milky Way context: introducing the Mint condition DC Justice League simulations

E Applebaum, AM Brooks, CR Christensen… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present results from the" Mint" resolution DC Justice League suite of Milky Way–like
zoom-in cosmological simulations, which extend our study of nearby galaxies down into the …

The APOSTLE simulations: solutions to the Local Group's cosmic puzzles

T Sawala, CS Frenk, A Fattahi… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Local Group galaxies offer some of the most discriminating tests of models of
cosmic structure formation. For example, observations of the Milky Way (MW) and …

What causes the formation of discs and end of bursty star formation?

PF Hopkins, AB Gurvich, X Shen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
As they grow, galaxies can transition from irregular/spheroidal with 'bursty'star formation
histories (SFHs), to discy with smooth SFHs. But even in simulations, the direct physical …

Gusty, gaseous flows of FIRE: galactic winds in cosmological simulations with explicit stellar feedback

AL Muratov, D Kereš… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present an analysis of the galaxy-scale gaseous outflows from the Feedback in Realistic
Environments (FIRE) simulations. This suite of hydrodynamic cosmological zoom …

Probing Galactic haloes with fast radio bursts

JX Prochaska, Y Zheng - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The precise localization (< 1 arcsec) of multiple fast radio bursts (FRBs) to> 0.1
galaxies has confirmed that the dispersion measures (DMs) of these enigmatic sources …

Forged in fire: cusps, cores and baryons in low-mass dwarf galaxies

J Oñorbe, M Boylan-Kolchin, JS Bullock… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present multiple ultrahigh resolution cosmological hydrodynamic simulations of M⋆≃
104–6.3 Mȯ dwarf galaxies that form within two M vir= 109.5–10 Mȯ dark matter halo initial …

The star formation burstiness and ionizing efficiency of low-mass galaxies

H Atek, LJ Furtak, P Oesch… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the burstiness of star formation and the ionizing efficiency of a large sample
of galaxies at 0.7< z< 1.5 using HST grism spectroscopy and deep ultraviolet (UV) imaging …