Theoretical challenges in galaxy formation

T Naab, JP Ostriker - Annual review of astronomy and …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Numerical simulations have become a major tool for understanding galaxy formation and
evolution. Over the decades the field has made significant progress. It is now possible to …

The many routes to AGN feedback

R Morganti - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The energy released by Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the form of radiation, winds, or radio
plasma jets, is known to impact on the surrounding interstellar medium. The result of these …

Simulating galaxy formation with black hole driven thermal and kinetic feedback

R Weinberger, V Springel, L Hernquist… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The inefficiency of star formation in massive elliptical galaxies is widely believed to be
caused by the interactions of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) with the surrounding gas …

COSMOS2020: The galaxy stellar mass function-The assembly and star formation cessation of galaxies at 0.2< z≤ 7.5

JR Weaver, I Davidzon, S Toft, O Ilbert… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. How galaxies form, assemble, and cease their star formation is a central question
within the modern landscape of galaxy evolution studies. These processes are indelibly …

Introducing the NEWHORIZON simulation: Galaxy properties with resolved internal dynamics across cosmic time

Y Dubois, R Beckmann, F Bournaud, H Choi… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Hydrodynamical cosmological simulations are increasing their level of realism by
considering more physical processes and having greater resolution or larger statistics …

Cold molecular outflows in the local Universe and their feedback effect on galaxies

A Fluetsch, R Maiolino, S Carniani… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We study molecular outflows in a sample of 45 local galaxies, both star forming and active
galactic nucleus (AGN), primarily by using CO data from the Atacama Large Millimeter …

Cosmological simulations predict that AGN preferentially live in gas-rich, star-forming galaxies despite effective feedback

SR Ward, CM Harrison, T Costa… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Negative feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is the leading mechanism for the
quenching of massive galaxies in the vast majority of modern galaxy evolution models …

Relativistic jet feedback–III. Feedback on gas discs

D Mukherjee, GV Bicknell, AY Wagner… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We study the interactions of a relativistic jet with a dense turbulent gaseous disc of radius∼
2 kpc. We have performed a suite of simulations with different mean density, jet power, and …

Feedback-regulated star formation and escape of LyC photons from mini-haloes during reionization

T Kimm, H Katz, M Haehnelt, J Rosdahl… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Reionization in the early Universe is likely driven by dwarf galaxies. Using cosmological
radiation-hydrodynamic simulations, we study star formation and the escape of Lyman …

The REQUIEM survey. I. A search for extended Lyα nebular emission around 31 z> 5.7 quasars

EP Farina, F Arrigoni-Battaia, T Costa… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The discovery of quasars a few hundred megayears after the Big Bang represents a major
challenge to our understanding of black holes as well as galaxy formation and evolution …