Active galactic nuclei: what's in a name?

P Padovani, DM Alexander, RJ Assef… - The Astronomy and …, 2017 - Springer
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are energetic astrophysical sources powered by accretion onto
supermassive black holes in galaxies, and present unique observational signatures that …

The dust attenuation law in galaxies

S Salim, D Narayanan - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Understanding the properties of dust attenuation curves in galaxies and the physical
mechanisms that shape them are among the fundamental questions of extragalactic …

PHANGS–ALMA: Arcsecond CO (2–1) Imaging of Nearby Star-forming Galaxies

AK Leroy, E Schinnerer, A Hughes… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present PHANGS–ALMA, the first survey to map CO J= 2→ 1 line emission at∼ 1''∼ 100
pc spatial resolution from a representative sample of 90 nearby (d≲ 20 Mpc) galaxies that lie …

Stellar population inference with Prospector

BD Johnson, J Leja, C Conroy… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Inference of the physical properties of stellar populations from observed photometry and
spectroscopy is a key goal in the study of galaxy evolution. In recent years, the quality and …

UniverseMachine: The correlation between galaxy growth and dark matter halo assembly from z = 0−10

P Behroozi, RH Wechsler, AP Hearin… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present a method to flexibly and self-consistently determine individual galaxies' star
formation rates (SFRs) from their host haloes' potential well depths, assembly histories, and …

The MOSDEF Survey: The Evolution of the Mass–Metallicity Relation from z= 0 to z∼ 3.3

RL Sanders, AE Shapley, T Jones… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the evolution of galaxy gas-phase metallicity (O/H) over the range z= 0–3.3
using samples of∼ 300 galaxies at z∼ 2.3 and∼ 150 galaxies at z∼ 3.3 from the MOSDEF …

First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: the galaxy colour bimodality

D Nelson, A Pillepich, V Springel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We introduce the first two simulations of the IllustrisTNG project, a next generation of
cosmological magnetohydrodynamical simulations, focusing on the optical colours of …

Full spectrum fitting with photometry in ppxf: stellar population versus dynamical masses, non-parametric star formation history and metallicity for 3200 LEGA-C galaxies at …

M Cappellari - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT I introduce some improvements to the ppxf method, which measures the stellar
and gas kinematics, star formation history (SFH) and chemical composition of galaxies. I …

The mass–metallicity and the fundamental metallicity relation revisited on a fully Te-based abundance scale for galaxies

M Curti, F Mannucci, G Cresci… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The relationships between stellar mass, gas-phase metallicity and star-formation rate (ie the
mass–metallicity, MZR, and the fundamental metallicity relation, FMR) in the local Universe …

The Auriga Project: the properties and formation mechanisms of disc galaxies across cosmic time

RJJ Grand, FA Gómez, F Marinacci… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We introduce a suite of 30 cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical zoom simulations of the
formation of galaxies in isolated Milky Way mass dark haloes. These were carried out with …