Galactic Archaeology with Gaia

AJ Deason, V Belokurov - New Astronomy Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
The Gaia mission has revolutionized our view of the Milky Way and its satellite citizens. The
field of Galactic Archaeology has been piecing together the formation and evolution of the …

Bursty star formation naturally explains the abundance of bright galaxies at cosmic dawn

G Sun, CA Faucher-Giguère… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent discoveries of a significant population of bright galaxies at cosmic dawn $\left
(z\gtrsim 10\right) $ have enabled critical tests of cosmological galaxy formation models. In …

Seen and unseen: bursty star formation and its implications for observations of high-redshift galaxies with JWST

G Sun, CA Faucher-Giguère… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Both observations and simulations have shown strong evidence for highly time-variable star
formation in low-mass and/or high-redshift galaxies, which has important observational …

Introducing the TNG-Cluster simulation: Overview and the physical properties of the gaseous intracluster medium

D Nelson, A Pillepich, M Ayromlou, W Lee… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
We introduce the new TNG-Cluster project, an addition to the IllustrisTNG suite of
cosmological magnetohydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation. Our objective is to …

Nitrogen enrichment and clustered star formation at the dawn of the Galaxy

V Belokurov, A Kravtsov - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Anomalously high nitrogen-to-oxygen abundance ratios [N/O] are observed in globular
clusters (GCs), among the field stars of the Milky Way (MW), and even in the gas in az≈ 11 …

Overview and public data release of the augmented Auriga Project: cosmological simulations of dwarf and Milky Way-mass galaxies

RJJ Grand, F Fragkoudi, FA Gómez… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present an extended suite of the Auriga cosmological gravo-magnetohydrodynamical
'zoom-in'simulations of 40 Milky Way-mass haloes and 26 dwarf galaxy–mass haloes run …

In-situ versus accreted Milky Way globular clusters: a new classification method and implications for cluster formation

V Belokurov, A Kravtsov - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present a new scheme for the classification of the in-situ and accreted globular clusters
(GCs). The scheme uses total energy E and z-component of the orbital angular momentum …

Spectroscopic age estimates for APOGEE red-giant stars: Precise spatial and kinematic trends with age in the Galactic disc

F Anders, P Gispert, B Ratcliffe, C Chiappini… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Over the last few years, many studies have found an empirical relationship between the
abundance of a star and its age. Here we estimate spectroscopic stellar ages for 178 825 …

Simulating Atomic Dark Matter in Milky Way Analogs

S Roy, X Shen, M Lisanti, D Curtin… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Dark sector theories naturally lead to multicomponent scenarios for dark matter where a
subcomponent can dissipate energy through self-interactions, allowing it to efficiently cool …

Disc settling and dynamical heating: histories of Milky Way-mass stellar discs across cosmic time in the FIRE simulations

F McCluskey, A Wetzel, SR Loebman… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We study the kinematics of stars both at their formation and today within 14 Milky Way (MW)-
mass galaxies from the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations. We quantify the relative …