All Outputs (208)

The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS): the origin of disc turbulence in z ≈ 1 star-forming galaxies (2017)
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Johnson, H., Harrison, C., Swinbank, A., Tiley, A., Stott, J., Bower, R., …Richards, S. (2018). The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS): the origin of disc turbulence in z ≈ 1 star-forming galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(4), 5076-5104. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3016

We analyse the velocity dispersion properties of 472 z ∼ 0.9 star-forming galaxies observed as part of the KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS). The majority of this sample is rotationally dominated (83 ± 5 per cent with vC/σ0 > 1) but also... Read More about The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS): the origin of disc turbulence in z ≈ 1 star-forming galaxies.

Comparing galaxy formation in semi-analytic models and hydrodynamical simulations (2017)
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Mitchell, P. D., Lacey, C. G., Lagos, C. D., Frenk, C. S., Bower, R. G., Cole, S., …Theuns, T. (2018). Comparing galaxy formation in semi-analytic models and hydrodynamical simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(1), 492-521. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2770

It is now possible for hydrodynamical simulations to reproduce a representative galaxy population. Accordingly, it is timely to assess critically some of the assumptions of traditional semi-analytic galaxy formation models. We use the EAGLE simulatio... Read More about Comparing galaxy formation in semi-analytic models and hydrodynamical simulations.

Quantifying the impact of mergers on the angular momentum of simulated galaxies (2017)
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Lagos, C. D. P., Stevens, A., Bower, R., Davis, T., Contreras, S., Padilla, N., …Theuns, T. (2018). Quantifying the impact of mergers on the angular momentum of simulated galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(4), 4956-4974. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2667

We use EAGLE to quantify the effect galaxy mergers have on the stellar specific angular momentum of galaxies, jstars. We split mergers into dry (gas-poor)/wet (gas-rich), major/minor and different spin alignments and orbital parameters. Wet (dry) mer... Read More about Quantifying the impact of mergers on the angular momentum of simulated galaxies.

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: understanding observations of large-scale outflows at low redshift with EAGLE simulations (2017)
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Tescari, E., Cortese, L., Power, C., Wyithe, J., Ho, I., Crain, R., …Tonini, C. (2018). The SAMI Galaxy Survey: understanding observations of large-scale outflows at low redshift with EAGLE simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(1), 380-397. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2315

This work presents a study of galactic outflows driven by stellar feedback. We extract main-sequence disc galaxies with stellar mass 109 ≤ M⋆/ M⊙ ≤ 5.7 × 1010 at redshift z = 0 from the highest resolution cosmological simulation of the Evolution and... Read More about The SAMI Galaxy Survey: understanding observations of large-scale outflows at low redshift with EAGLE simulations.

The formation of hot gaseous haloes around galaxies (2017)
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Correa, C., Schaye, J., Wyithe, J., Duffy, A., Theuns, T., Crain, R., & Bower, R. (2018). The formation of hot gaseous haloes around galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(1), 538-559. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2332

We use a suite of hydrodynamical cosmological simulations from the Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments (EAGLE) project to investigate the formation of hot hydrostatic haloes and their dependence on feedback mechanisms. We find t... Read More about The formation of hot gaseous haloes around galaxies.

The relation between galaxy morphology and colour in the EAGLE simulation (2017)
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Correa, C. A., Schaye, J., Clauwens, B., Bower, R. G., Crain, R. A., Schaller, M., …Thob, A. C. (2017). The relation between galaxy morphology and colour in the EAGLE simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 472(1), L45-L49. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slx133

We investigate the relation between kinematic morphology, intrinsic colour and stellar mass of galaxies in the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. We calculate the intrinsic u − r colours and measure the fraction of kinetic energy invested... Read More about The relation between galaxy morphology and colour in the EAGLE simulation.

Galaxy metallicity scaling relations in the EAGLE simulations (2017)
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De Rossi, M. E., Bower, R. G., Font, A. S., Schaye, J., & Theuns, T. (2017). Galaxy metallicity scaling relations in the EAGLE simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 472(3), 3354-3377. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2158

We quantify the correlations between gas-phase and stellar metallicities and global properties of galaxies, such as stellar mass, halo mass, age and gas fraction, in the Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments suite of cosmological... Read More about Galaxy metallicity scaling relations in the EAGLE simulations.

The Pan-STARRS1 Medium-deep Survey: Star Formation Quenching in Group and Cluster Environments (2017)
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Jian, H., Lin, L., Lin, K., Foucaud, S., Chen, C., Chiueh, T., …Waters, C. (2017). The Pan-STARRS1 Medium-deep Survey: Star Formation Quenching in Group and Cluster Environments. Astrophysical Journal, 845(1), Article 74. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa7de2

We make use of a catalog of 1600 Pan-STARRS1 groups produced by the probability friends-of-friends algorithm to explore how the galaxy properties, i.e., the specific star formation rate (SSFR) and quiescent fraction, depend on stellar mass and group-... Read More about The Pan-STARRS1 Medium-deep Survey: Star Formation Quenching in Group and Cluster Environments.

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.

Winds of change: reionization by starburst galaxies (2017)
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Sharma, M., Theuns, T., Frenk, C., Bower, R., Crain, R., Schaller, M., & Schaye, J. (2017). Winds of change: reionization by starburst galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 468(2), 2176-2188. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx578

We investigate the properties of the galaxies that reionized the Universe and the history of cosmic reionization using the ‘Evolution and Assembly of Galaxies and their Environments’ (eagle) cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. We obtain the evol... Read More about Winds of change: reionization by starburst galaxies.

Angular momentum evolution of galaxies over the past 10 Gyr: a MUSE and KMOS dynamical survey of 400 star-forming galaxies from z = 0.3 to 1.7 (2017)
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Swinbank, M., Harrison, C., Trayford, J., Schaller, M., Smail, I., Schaye, J., …Stott, J. (2017). Angular momentum evolution of galaxies over the past 10 Gyr: a MUSE and KMOS dynamical survey of 400 star-forming galaxies from z = 0.3 to 1.7. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 467(3), 3140-3159. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx201

We present a MUSE and KMOS dynamical study 405 star-forming galaxies at redshift z = 0.28–1.65 (median redshift z¯= 0.84). Our sample is representative of the star-forming “main-sequence”, with star-formation rates of SFR = 0.1–30M⊙ yr−1 and stellar... Read More about Angular momentum evolution of galaxies over the past 10 Gyr: a MUSE and KMOS dynamical survey of 400 star-forming galaxies from z = 0.3 to 1.7.