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The evolution of the star formation rate function in the EAGLE simulations: a comparison with UV, IR and Hα observations from z ∼ 8 to z ∼ 0 (2017)
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Katsianis, A., Blanc, G., Lagos, C., Tejos, N., Bower, R., Alavi, A., …Lopez, S. (2017). The evolution of the star formation rate function in the EAGLE simulations: a comparison with UV, IR and Hα observations from z ∼ 8 to z ∼ 0. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 472(1), 919-939. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2020

We investigate the evolution of the galaxy star formation rate function (SFRF) and cosmic star formation rate density (CSFRD) of z ∼ 0–8 galaxies in the Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments (EAGLE) simulations. In addition, we pr... Read More about The evolution of the star formation rate function in the EAGLE simulations: a comparison with UV, IR and Hα observations from z ∼ 8 to z ∼ 0.

The Hydrangea simulations: galaxy formation in and around massive clusters (2017)
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Bahé, Y., Barnes, D., Dalla Vecchia, C., Kay, S., White, S., McCarthy, I., …Trayford, J. (2017). The Hydrangea simulations: galaxy formation in and around massive clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470(4), 4186-4208. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1403

We introduce the Hydrangea simulations, a suite of 24 cosmological hydrodynamic zoom-in simulations of massive galaxy clusters (M200c = 1014–1015.4 M⊙) with baryon particle masses of ∼106 M⊙. Designed to study the impact of the cluster environment on... Read More about The Hydrangea simulations: galaxy formation in and around massive clusters.

Gemini Observations of Galaxies in Rich Early Environments (GOGREEN) I: survey description (2017)
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Balogh, M., Gilbank, D., Muzzin, A., Rudnick, G., Cooper, M., Lidman, C., …Wetzel, A. (2017). Gemini Observations of Galaxies in Rich Early Environments (GOGREEN) I: survey description. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470(4), 4168-4185. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1370

We describe a new Large Program in progress on the Gemini North and South telescopes: Gemini Observations of Galaxies in Rich Early Environments (GOGREEN). This is an imaging and deep spectroscopic survey of 21 galaxy systems at 1 < z < 1.5, selected... Read More about Gemini Observations of Galaxies in Rich Early Environments (GOGREEN) I: survey description.

Small-scale galaxy clustering in the eagle simulation (2017)
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Artale, M. C., Pedrosa, S. E., Trayford, J. W., Theuns, T., Farrow, D. J., Norberg, P., …Schaller, M. (2017). Small-scale galaxy clustering in the eagle simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470(2), 1771-1787. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1263

We study present-day galaxy clustering in the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. EAGLE’s galaxy formation parameters were calibrated to reproduce the redshift z = 0.1 galaxy stellar mass function, and the simulation also reproduces galaxy... Read More about Small-scale galaxy clustering in the eagle simulation.

Optical colours and spectral indices of z = 0.1 eagle galaxies with the 3D dust radiative transfer code skirt (2017)
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Trayford, J., Camps, P., Theuns, T., Baes, M., Bower, R., Crain, R., …Frenk, C. (2017). Optical colours and spectral indices of z = 0.1 eagle galaxies with the 3D dust radiative transfer code skirt. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470(1), 771-799. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1051

We present mock optical images, broad-band and H α fluxes, and D4000 spectral indices for 30 145 galaxies from the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation at redshift z = 0.1, modelling dust with the SKIRT Monte Carlo radiative transfer code. The modelling i... Read More about Optical colours and spectral indices of z = 0.1 eagle galaxies with the 3D dust radiative transfer code skirt.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly: search for a population of high-entropy galaxy groups (2017)
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Pearson, R., Ponman, T., Norberg, P., Robotham, A., Babul, A., Bower, R., …Pimbblet, K. (2017). Galaxy And Mass Assembly: search for a population of high-entropy galaxy groups. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 469(3), 3489-3504. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1081

Observations with the ChandraX-ray Observatory are used to examine the hot gas properties within a sample of 10 galaxy groups selected from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey's optical Friends-of-Friends group catalogue. Our groups have been screene... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly: search for a population of high-entropy galaxy groups.

Barred galaxies in the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamical simulation (2017)
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Algorry, D., Navarro, J., Abadi, M., Sales, L., Bower, R., Crain, R., …Theuns, T. (2017). Barred galaxies in the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 469(1), 1054-1064. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1008

We examine the properties of barred disc galaxies in a ΛCDM cosmological hydrodynamical simulation from the EAGLE project. Our study follows the formation of 269 discs identified at z = 0 in the stellar mass range 10.6 < log M*/M⊙ < 11. These discs s... Read More about Barred galaxies in the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamical simulation.

Mass-Discrepancy Acceleration Relation: A Natural Outcome of Galaxy Formation in Cold Dark Matter Halos (2017)
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Ludlow, A., Benítez-Llambay, A., Schaller, M., Theuns, T., Frenk, C., Bower, R., …Oman, K. (2017). Mass-Discrepancy Acceleration Relation: A Natural Outcome of Galaxy Formation in Cold Dark Matter Halos. Physical Review Letters, 118(16), Article 161103. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.118.161103

We analyze the total and baryonic acceleration profiles of a set of well-resolved galaxies identified in the eagle suite of hydrodynamic simulations. Our runs start from the same initial conditions but adopt different prescriptions for unresolved ste... Read More about Mass-Discrepancy Acceleration Relation: A Natural Outcome of Galaxy Formation in Cold Dark Matter Halos.

nIFTy cosmology: the clustering consistency of galaxy formation models (2017)
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Pujol, A., Skibba, R., Gaztañaga, E., Benson, A., Blaizot, J., Bower, R., …Yi, S. (2017). nIFTy cosmology: the clustering consistency of galaxy formation models. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 469(1), 749-762. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx913

We present a clustering comparison of 12 galaxy formation models [including semi-analytic models (SAMs) and halo occupation distribution (HOD) models] all run on halo catalogues and merger trees extracted from a single Λ cold dark matter N-body simul... Read More about nIFTy cosmology: the clustering consistency of galaxy formation models.

The link between galaxy and black hole growth in the eagle simulation (2017)
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McAlpine, S., Bower, R., Harrison, C., Crain, R., Schaller, M., Schaye, J., & Theuns, T. (2017). The link between galaxy and black hole growth in the eagle simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 468(3), 3395-3407. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx658

We investigate the connection between the star formation rate (SFR) of galaxies and their central black hole accretion rate (BHAR) using the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. We find, in striking concurrence with recent observational stud... Read More about The link between galaxy and black hole growth in the eagle simulation.