Accelerated formation of ultra-massive galaxies in the first billion years

M Xiao, PA Oesch, D Elbaz, L Bing, EJ Nelson… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Recent James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have revealed an
unexpected abundance of massive-galaxy candidates in the early Universe, extending …

The baryon cycle in modern cosmological hydrodynamical simulations

RJ Wright, RS Somerville, CP Lagos… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In recent years, cosmological hydrodynamical simulations have proven their utility as key
interpretative tools in the study of galaxy formation and evolution. In this work, we present a …

Identifying the discs, bulges, and intra-halo light of simulated galaxies through structural decomposition

KL Proctor, CP Lagos, AD Ludlow… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We perform a structural decomposition of galaxies identified in three cosmological
hydrodynamical simulations by applying Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) to the kinematics …

GA-NIFS: The core of an extremely massive protocluster at the epoch of reionisation probed with JWST/NIRSpec

S Arribas, M Perna, BR Del Pino, I Lamperti… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. The SPT0311–58 system resides in a massive dark-matter halo at z∼ 6.9. It hosts
two dusty galaxies (E and W) with a combined star formation rate (SFR) of∼ 3500 M⊙ yr− 1 …

Swift : a modern highly parallel gravity and smoothed particle hydrodynamics solver for astrophysical and cosmological applications

M Schaller, J Borrow, PW Draper… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Numerical simulations have become one of the key tools used by theorists in all the fields of
astrophysics and cosmology. The development of modern tools that target the largest …

The FLAMINGO simulation view of cluster progenitors observed in the epoch of reionization with JWST

S Lim, S Tacchella, J Schaye, M Schaller… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Motivated by the recent JWST discovery of galaxy overdensities during the Epoch of
Reionzation, we examine the physical properties of high-z protoclusters and their evolution …

The FLAMINGO project: the coupling between baryonic feedback and cosmology in light of the S8 tension

W Elbers, CS Frenk, A Jenkins, B Li… - Monthly Notices of …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Large-scale structure surveys have reported measurements of the density of matter, Ωm, and
the amplitude of clustering, σ8, that are in tension with the values inferred from observations …

Relativistic SZ temperatures and hydrostatic mass bias for massive clusters in the FLAMINGO simulations

ST Kay, J Braspenning, J Chluba… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The relativistic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect can be used to measure
intracluster gas temperatures independently of X-ray spectroscopy. Here, we use the large …

A unified model for the clustering of quasars and galaxies at z≈ 6

E Pizzati, JF Hennawi, J Schaye… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Recent observations from the EIGER JWST program have measured for the first time the
quasar–galaxy cross-correlation function at. The autocorrelation function of faint quasars …

Inferring the dark matter splashback radius from cluster gas and observable profiles in the FLAMINGO simulations

I Towler, ST Kay, J Schaye, R Kugel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The splashback radius, coinciding with the minimum in the dark matter radial density
gradient, is thought to be a universal definition of the edge of a dark matter halo …