The coevolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes: insights from surveys of the contemporary universe

TM Heckman, PN Best - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
We summarize what large surveys of the contemporary Universe have taught us about the
physics and phenomenology of the processes that link the formation and evolution of …

Tracing cosmic evolution with clusters of galaxies

GM Voit - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2005 - APS
The most successful cosmological models to date envision structure formation as a
hierarchical process in which gravity is constantly drawing lumps of matter together to form …

A primer on hierarchical galaxy formation: the semi-analytical approach

CM Baugh - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent observational and theoretical breakthroughs make this an exciting time to be
working towards understanding the physics of galaxy formation. The goal of this review is to …

Bulge mass is king: the dominant role of the bulge in determining the fraction of passive galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

AFL Bluck, JT Mendel, SL Ellison… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the origin of galaxy bimodality by quantifying the relative role of intrinsic and
environmental drivers to the cessation (or 'quenching') of star formation in over half a million …

[HTML][HTML] Simulating groups and the intragroup medium: the surprisingly complex and rich middle ground between clusters and galaxies

BD Oppenheimer, A Babul, Y Bahé, IS Butsky… - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
Galaxy groups are more than an intermediate scale between clusters and halos hosting
individual galaxies, they are crucial laboratories capable of testing a range of astrophysics …

Introducing romulusc: a cosmological simulation of a galaxy cluster with an unprecedented resolution

M Tremmel, TR Quinn, A Ricarte, A Babul… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present the first results from romulusc, the highest resolution cosmological
hydrodynamic simulation of a galaxy cluster run to date. romulusc, a zoom-in simulation of a …

The evolution of x-ray clusters and the entropy of the intra cluster medium

P Tozzi, C Norman - Arxiv preprint astro-ph/0003289, 2000 - arxiv.org
The thermodynamics of the diffuse, X-ray emitting gas in clusters of galaxies is determined
by gravitational processes associated with shock heating, adiabatic compression, and non …

On the prevalence of radio-loud active galactic nuclei in brightest cluster galaxies: implications for AGN heating of cooling flows

PN Best, A Von Der Linden, G Kauffmann… - Monthly Notices of …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
The prevalence of radio-loud active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity in present-day massive
haloes is determined using a sample of 625 nearby groups and clusters selected from the …

Galaxy clusters in hubble volume simulations: cosmological constraints from sky survey populations

AE Evrard, TJ MacFarland… - The Astrophysical …, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
We use gigaparticle N-body simulations to study galaxy cluster populations in Hubble
volumes of Λ CDM (Ω m= 0.3, Ω Λ= 0.7) and τ CDM (Ω m= 1) world models. Mapping past …

Pre-processing of galaxies before entering a cluster

Y Fujita - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 2004 - academic.oup.com
We consider several mechanisms that possibly affect the evolution of disk galaxies in
clusters using analytical models based on a hierarchical clustering scenario. We especially …