Physical models of galaxy formation in a cosmological framework

RS Somerville, R Davé - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Modeling galaxy formation in a cosmological context presents one of the greatest
challenges in astrophysics today due to the vast range of scales and numerous physical …

Structure and kinematics of early-type galaxies from integral field spectroscopy

M Cappellari - Annual review of astronomy and astrophysics, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Observations of galaxy isophotes, long-slit kinematics, and high-resolution photometry
suggested a possible dichotomy between two distinct classes of elliptical galaxies. But these …

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 …

3D-HST+ CANDELS: the evolution of the galaxy size–mass distribution since z= 3

A van der Wel, M Franx, PG Van Dokkum… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Spectroscopic+ photometric redshifts, stellar mass estimates, and rest-frame colors from the
3D-HST survey are combined with structural parameter measurements from CANDELS …

The Horizon-AGN simulation: morphological diversity of galaxies promoted by AGN feedback

Y Dubois, S Peirani, C Pichon… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The interplay between cosmic gas accretion on to galaxies and galaxy mergers drives the
observed morphological diversity of galaxies. By comparing the state-of-the-art …

Quiescent galaxies 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang and their progenitors

F Valentino, M Tanaka, I Davidzon, S Toft… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We report two secure (= z 3.775, 4.012) and one tentative (z≈ 3.767) spectroscopic
confirmations of massive and quiescent galaxies through K-band observations with …

Compaction and quenching of high-z galaxies in cosmological simulations: blue and red nuggets

A Zolotov, A Dekel, N Mandelker… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We use cosmological simulations to study a characteristic evolution pattern of high-redshift
galaxies. Early, stream-fed, highly perturbed, gas-rich discs undergo phases of dissipative …

Morphologies of∼ 190,000 galaxies at z= 0–10 revealed with HST legacy data. I. Size evolution

T Shibuya, M Ouchi, Y Harikane - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the redshift evolution of the galaxy effective radius re obtained from the Hubble
Space Telescope (HST) samples of∼ 190,000 galaxies at z= 0–10. Our HST samples …

The size evolution of star-forming and quenched galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulation

S Genel, D Nelson, A Pillepich… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We analyse scaling relations and evolution histories of galaxy sizes in TNG100, part of the
IllustrisTNG simulation suite. Observational qualitative trends of size with stellar mass, star …

Coevolution (or not) of supermassive black holes and host galaxies

J Kormendy, LC Ho - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Supermassive black holes (BHs) have been found in 85 galaxies by dynamical modeling of
spatially resolved kinematics. The Hubble Space Telescope revolutionized BH research by …