Key physical processes in the circumgalactic medium

CA Faucher-Giguère, SP Oh - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Spurred by rich, multiwavelength observations and enabled by new simulations, ranging
from cosmological to subparsec scales, the past decade has seen major theoretical …

The evolution of the intergalactic medium

M McQuinn - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016 - annualreviews.org
The bulk of cosmic matter resides in a dilute reservoir that fills the space between galaxies,
the intergalactic medium (IGM). The history of this reservoir is intimately tied to the cosmic …

FIRE-2 simulations: physics versus numerics in galaxy formation

PF Hopkins, A Wetzel, D Kereš… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) project explores feedback in
cosmological galaxy formation simulations. Previous FIRE simulations used an identical …

Galaxies on FIRE (Feedback In Realistic Environments): stellar feedback explains cosmologically inefficient star formation

PF Hopkins, D Kereš, J Oñorbe… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We present a series of high-resolution cosmological simulations1 of galaxy formation to z=
0, spanning halo masses∼ 108–1013 M⊙, and stellar masses∼ 104–1011 M⊙. Our …

Gusty, gaseous flows of FIRE: galactic winds in cosmological simulations with explicit stellar feedback

AL Muratov, D Kereš… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present an analysis of the galaxy-scale gaseous outflows from the Feedback in Realistic
Environments (FIRE) simulations. This suite of hydrodynamic cosmological zoom …

mufasa: galaxy formation simulations with meshless hydrodynamics

R Davé, R Thompson, PF Hopkins - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We present the mufasa suite of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations, which employs the
gizmo meshless finite mass (MFM) code including H 2-based star formation, nine-element …

The origin and evolution of the galaxy mass–metallicity relation

X Ma, PF Hopkins, CA Faucher-Giguère… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We use high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations from the Feedback in Realistic
Environment (FIRE) project to study the galaxy mass–metallicity relations (MZR) from z= 0 …

A cosmic UV/X-ray background model update

CA Faucher-Giguere - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present an updated model of the cosmic ionizing background from the UV to the X-rays.
Relative to our previous model, the new model provides a better match to a large number of …

The impact of baryonic physics on the structure of dark matter haloes: the view from the FIRE cosmological simulations

TK Chan, D Kereš, J Oñorbe, PF Hopkins… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We study the distribution of cold dark matter (CDM) in cosmological simulations from the
FIRE (Feedback In Realistic Environments) project, for M*∼ 104–11 M⊙ galaxies in M h∼ …

The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey-VIII. Extended Lyman-α haloes around high-z star-forming galaxies

F Leclercq, R Bacon, L Wisotzki, P Mitchell… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
We report the detection of extended Lyα haloes around 145 individual star-forming galaxies
at redshifts 3≤ z≤ 6 in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field observed with the Multi-Unit …