The PARADIGM project – I. How early merger histories shape the present-day sizes of Milky-Way-mass galaxies
(2025)
Journal Article
Joshi, G. D., Pontzen, A., Agertz, O., Rey, M. P., Read, J., & Pillepich, A. (2025). The PARADIGM project – I. How early merger histories shape the present-day sizes of Milky-Way-mass galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 537(4), 3792-3813. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf276
How mergers affect galaxy formation depends on both feedback processes, and on the geometry and strength of the mergers themselves. We introduce the PARADIGM project, where we study the response of a simulated Milky-Way-mass galaxy (M200c ∼ 1012 M at... Read More about The PARADIGM project – I. How early merger histories shape the present-day sizes of Milky-Way-mass galaxies.