Hydrodynamical simulations of the galaxy population: enduring successes and outstanding challenges

RA Crain, F van de Voort - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
We review the progress in modeling the galaxy population in hydrodynamical simulations of
the ΛCDM cosmogony. State-of-the-art simulations now broadly reproduce the observed …

Ram pressure stripping in high-density environments

A Boselli, M Fossati, M Sun - The Astronomy and astrophysics review, 2022 - Springer
Galaxies living in rich environments are suffering different perturbations able to drastically
affect their evolution. Among these, ram pressure stripping, ie the pressure exerted by the …

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 …

The Dawes Review 9: The role of cold gas stripping on the star formation quenching of satellite galaxies

L Cortese, B Catinella, R Smith - Publications of the Astronomical …, 2021 - cambridge.org
One of the key open questions in extragalactic astronomy is what stops star formation in
galaxies. While it is clear that the cold gas reservoir, which fuels the formation of new stars …

Quenched fractions in the IllustrisTNG simulations: the roles of AGN feedback, environment, and pre-processing

M Donnari, A Pillepich, GD Joshi… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We use the IllustrisTNG hydrodynamical simulations to show how the fractions of quenched
galaxies vary across different environments and cosmic time, and to quantify the role AGN …

Resolving small-scale cold circumgalactic gas in TNG50

D Nelson, P Sharma, A Pillepich… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We use the high-resolution TNG50 cosmological magnetohydrodynamical simulation to
explore the properties and origin of cold circumgalactic medium (CGM) gas around massive …

The circumgalactic medium of Milky Way-like galaxies in the TNG50 simulation–I: halo gas properties and the role of SMBH feedback

R Ramesh, D Nelson, A Pillepich - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We analyse the physical properties of gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of 132 Milky
Way (MW)-like galaxies at z= 0 from the cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical simulation …

Jellyfish galaxies with the IllustrisTNG simulations–when, where, and for how long does ram pressure stripping of cold gas occur?

E Rohr, A Pillepich, D Nelson, E Zinger… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Jellyfish galaxies are prototypical examples of satellite galaxies undergoing strong ram
pressure stripping (RPS). We analyse the evolution of 512 unique, first-infalling jellyfish …

The origins of the circumgalactic medium in the FIRE simulations

Z Hafen, CA Faucher-Giguère… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We use a particle tracking analysis to study the origins of the circumgalactic medium (CGM),
separating it into (1) accretion from the intergalactic medium (IGM),(2) wind from the central …

Interaction of a cold cloud with a hot wind: the regimes of cloud growth and destruction and the impact of magnetic fields

M Sparre, C Pfrommer, K Ehlert - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Multiphase galaxy winds, the accretion of cold gas through galaxy haloes, and gas stripping
from jellyfish galaxies are examples of interactions between cold and hot gaseous phases …