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 …

[HTML][HTML] Baryon cycles in the biggest galaxies

M Donahue, GM Voit - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
The universe's biggest galaxies have both vast atmospheres and supermassive central
black holes. This article reviews how those two components of a large galaxy couple and …

A census of baryons in the Universe from localized fast radio bursts

JP Macquart, JX Prochaska, M McQuinn, KW Bannister… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
More than three-quarters of the baryonic content of the Universe resides in a highly diffuse
state that is difficult to detect, with only a small fraction directly observed in galaxies and …

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 …

Cosmic ray feedback in galaxies and galaxy clusters: A pedagogical introduction and a topical review of the acceleration, transport, observables, and dynamical …

M Ruszkowski, C Pfrommer - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2023 - Springer
Understanding the physical mechanisms that control galaxy formation is a fundamental
challenge in contemporary astrophysics. Recent advances in the field of astrophysical …

The cosmic baryon cycle and galaxy mass assembly in the FIRE simulations

D Anglés-Alcázar, CA Faucher-Giguère… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We use cosmological simulations from the FIRE (Feedback In Realistic Environments)
project to study the baryon cycle and galaxy mass assembly for central galaxies in the halo …

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 …

Physical models of galaxy formation in a cosmological framework

RS Somerville, R Davé - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Modeling galaxy formation in a cosmological context presents one of the greatest
challenges in astrophysics today due to the vast range of scales and numerous physical …

Full-data results of Hubble frontier fields: UV luminosity functions at z∼ 6–10 and a consistent picture of cosmic reionization

M Ishigaki, R Kawamata, M Ouchi, M Oguri… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present UV luminosity functions of dropout galaxies at~– z 6 10 with the complete
Hubble Frontier Fields data. We obtain a catalog of∼ 450 dropout-galaxy candidates (350 …

The origin and evolution of the galaxy mass–metallicity relation

X Ma, PF Hopkins, CA Faucher-Giguère… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We use high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations from the Feedback in Realistic
Environment (FIRE) project to study the galaxy mass–metallicity relations (MZR) from z= 0 …