The evolution of the star-forming interstellar medium across cosmic time

LJ Tacconi, R Genzel, A Sternberg - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Over the past decade, increasingly robust estimates of the dense molecular gas content in
galaxy populations between redshift z= 0 and the peak of cosmic galaxy/star formation (z∼ …

Star-forming galaxies at cosmic noon

NM Förster Schreiber, S Wuyts - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Ever deeper and wider look-back surveys have led to a fairly robust outline of the cosmic
star-formation history, which culminated around; this period is often nicknamed “cosmic …

The IllustrisTNG simulations: public data release

D Nelson, V Springel, A Pillepich… - Computational …, 2019 - Springer
We present the full public release of all data from the TNG100 and TNG300 simulations of
the IllustrisTNG project. IllustrisTNG is a suite of large volume, cosmological, gravo …

First results from the TNG50 simulation: the evolution of stellar and gaseous discs across cosmic time

A Pillepich, D Nelson, V Springel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present a new cosmological, magnetohydrodynamical simulation for galaxy formation:
TNG50, the third and final instalment of the IllustrisTNG project. TNG50 evolves 2× 21603 …

PHIBSS: unified scaling relations of gas depletion time and molecular gas fractions

LJ Tacconi, R Genzel, A Saintonge… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper provides an update of our previous scaling relations between galaxy-integrated
molecular gas masses, stellar masses, and star formation rates (SFRs), in the framework of …

Wet compaction to a blue nugget: a critical phase in galaxy evolution

S Lapiner, A Dekel, J Freundlich… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We utilize high-resolution cosmological simulations to reveal that high-redshift galaxies tend
to undergo a robust 'wet compaction'event when near a 'golden'stellar mass of. This is a …

The 3D-HST Survey: Hubble Space Telescope WFC3/G141 grism spectra, redshifts, and emission line measurements for∼ 100,000 galaxies

IG Momcheva, GB Brammer… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present reduced data and data products from the 3D-HST survey, a 248-orbit HST
Treasury program. The survey obtained WFC3 G141 grism spectroscopy in four of the five …

A dynamically cold disk galaxy in the early Universe

F Rizzo, S Vegetti, D Powell, F Fraternali, JP McKean… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The extreme astrophysical processes and conditions that characterize the early Universe
are expected to result in young galaxies that are dynamically different from those observed …

What causes the formation of discs and end of bursty star formation?

PF Hopkins, AB Gurvich, X Shen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
As they grow, galaxies can transition from irregular/spheroidal with 'bursty'star formation
histories (SFHs), to discy with smooth SFHs. But even in simulations, the direct physical …

The quest for dual and binary supermassive black holes: A multi-messenger view

A De Rosa, C Vignali, T Bogdanović, PR Capelo… - New Astronomy …, 2019 - Elsevier
The quest for binary and dual supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the dawn of the multi-
messenger era is compelling. Detecting dual active galactic nuclei (AGN)–active SMBHs at …