Observational searches for star-forming galaxies at z> 6

SL Finkelstein - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2016 - cambridge.org
Although the universe at redshifts greater than six represents only the first one billion years
(< 10%) of cosmic time, the dense nature of the early universe led to vigorous galaxy …

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 …

Deriving physical properties from broadband photometry with Prospector: description of the model and a demonstration of its accuracy using 129 galaxies in the local …

J Leja, BD Johnson, C Conroy… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Broadband photometry of galaxies measures an unresolved mix of complex stellar
populations, gas, and dust. Interpreting these data is a challenge for models: many studies …

The formation and assembly history of the Milky Way revealed by its globular cluster population

JMD Kruijssen, JL Pfeffer… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We use the age–metallicity distribution of 96 Galactic globular clusters (GCs) to infer the
formation and assembly history of the Milky Way (MW), culminating in the reconstruction of …

CEERS key paper. V. Galaxies at 4< z< 9 are bluer than they appear–characterizing galaxy stellar populations from rest-frame∼ 1 μm imaging

C Papovich, JW Cole, G Yang… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present results from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Survey on the stellar
population parameters for 28 galaxies with redshifts 4< z< 9 using imaging data from the …

Kraken reveals itself–the merger history of the Milky Way reconstructed with the E-MOSAICS simulations

JMD Kruijssen, JL Pfeffer, M Chevance… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Globular clusters (GCs) formed when the Milky Way experienced a phase of rapid assembly.
We use the wealth of information contained in the Galactic GC population to quantify the …

A Milky Way-like barred spiral galaxy at a redshift of 3

L Costantin, PG Pérez-González, Y Guo, C Buttitta… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The majority of massive disk galaxies in the local Universe show a stellar barred structure in
their central regions, including our Milky Way,. Bars are supposed to develop in dynamically …

An older, more quiescent universe from panchromatic SED fitting of the 3D-HST survey

J Leja, BD Johnson, C Conroy… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Galaxy observations are influenced by many physical parameters: stellar masses, star
formation rates (SFRs), star formation histories (SFHs), metallicities, dust, black hole activity …

The SFR–M* relation and empirical star formation histories from ZFOURGE at 0.5< z< 4

AR Tomczak, RF Quadri, KVH Tran… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore star formation histories (SFHs) of galaxies based on the evolution of the star
formation rate stellar mass relation (SFR–M*). Using data from the FourStar Galaxy …

The Romulus cosmological simulations: a physical approach to the formation, dynamics and accretion models of SMBHs

M Tremmel, M Karcher, F Governato… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We present a novel implementation of supermassive black hole (SMBH) formation,
dynamics and accretion in the massively parallel tree+ SPH code, ChaNGa. This approach …