Key physical processes in the circumgalactic medium

CA Faucher-Giguère, SP Oh - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Spurred by rich, multiwavelength observations and enabled by new simulations, ranging
from cosmological to subparsec scales, the past decade has seen major theoretical …

Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation

M Vogelsberger, F Marinacci, P Torrey… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Over recent decades, cosmological simulations of galaxy formation have been instrumental
in advancing our understanding of structure and galaxy formation in the Universe. These …

Understanding galaxy evolution through emission lines

LJ Kewley, DC Nicholls… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
We review the use of emission lines for understanding galaxy evolution, focusing on
excitation source, metallicity, ionization parameter, ISM pressure, and electron density. We …

Streams, substructures, and the early history of the Milky Way

A Helmi - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The advent of the second data release of the Gaia mission, in combination with data from
large spectroscopic surveys, is revolutionizing our understanding of the Galaxy. Thanks to …

The connection between galaxies and their dark matter halos

RH Wechsler, JL Tinker - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
In our modern understanding of galaxy formation, every galaxy forms within a dark matter
halo. The formation and growth of galaxies over time is connected to the growth of the halos …

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 …

Are the ultra-high-redshift galaxies at z > 10 surprising in the context of standard galaxy formation models?

LYA Yung, RS Somerville, SL Finkelstein… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A substantial number of ultra-high redshift (8≲ z≲ 17) galaxy candidates have
been detected with JWST, posing the question: Are these observational results surprising in …

Line-intensity mapping: theory review with a focus on star-formation lines

JL Bernal, ED Kovetz - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2022 - Springer
Line-intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging approach to survey the Universe, using
relatively low-aperture instruments to scan large portions of the sky and collect the total …

AGN wind scaling relations and the co-evolution of black holes and galaxies

F Fiore, C Feruglio, F Shankar, M Bischetti… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
Context. Feedback from accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is often identified as
the main mechanism responsible for regulating star formation in active galactic nucleus …

Introducing the Illustris Project: simulating the coevolution of dark and visible matter in the Universe

M Vogelsberger, S Genel, V Springel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT We introduce the Illustris Project, a series of large-scale hydrodynamical
simulations of galaxy formation. The highest resolution simulation, Illustris-1, covers a …