Molecular Gas and the Star-Formation Process on Cloud Scales in Nearby Galaxies

E Schinnerer, AK Leroy - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Observations that resolve nearby galaxies into individual regions across multiple phases of
the gas–star formation feedback “matter cycle” have provided a sharp new view of molecular …

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 …

Public data release of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation

A Wetzel, CC Hayward, RE Sanderson… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe a public data release of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy
formation (available at http://flathub. flatironinstitute. org/fire) from the Feedback In Realistic …

FIRE-3: updated stellar evolution models, yields, and microphysics and fitting functions for applications in galaxy simulations

PF Hopkins, A Wetzel, C Wheeler… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Increasingly, uncertainties in predictions from galaxy formation simulations (at sub-Milky
Way masses) are dominated by uncertainties in stellar evolution inputs. In this paper, we …

Pressure-regulated, Feedback-modulated Star Formation in Disk Galaxies

EC Ostriker, CG Kim - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The star formation rate (SFR) in galactic disks depends on both the quantity of the available
interstellar medium (ISM) gas and its physical state. Conversely, the ISM's physical state …

Characterizing mass, momentum, energy, and metal outflow rates of multiphase galactic winds in the FIRE-2 cosmological simulations

V Pandya, DB Fielding, D Anglés-Alcázar… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We characterize mass, momentum, energy, and metal outflow rates of multiphase galactic
winds in a suite of FIRE-2 cosmological 'zoom-in'simulations from the Feedback in Realistic …

FIREbox: simulating galaxies at high dynamic range in a cosmological volume

R Feldmann, E Quataert… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We introduce a suite of cosmological volume simulations to study the evolution of galaxies
as part of the Feedback in Realistic Environments project. FIREbox, the principal simulation …

Effects of the environment and feedback physics on the initial mass function of stars in the STARFORGE simulations

D Guszejnov, MY Grudić, SSR Offner… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
One of the key mysteries of star formation is the origin of the stellar initial mass function
(IMF). The IMF is observed to be nearly universal in the Milky Way and its satellites, and …

The time-scales probed by star formation rate indicators for realistic, bursty star formation histories from the FIRE simulations

JA Flores Velázquez, AB Gurvich… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the rate at which stars form is central to studies of galaxy formation.
Observationally, the star formation rates (SFRs) of galaxies are measured using the …

Virialization of the inner CGM in the FIRE simulations and implications for galaxy disks, star formation, and feedback

J Stern, CA Faucher-Giguère, D Fielding… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We use the FIRE-2 cosmological simulations to study the formation of a quasi-static, virial-
temperature gas phase in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) at redshifts 0< z< 5 and how …