Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation

M Vogelsberger, F Marinacci, P Torrey… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Over recent decades, cosmological simulations of galaxy formation have been instrumental
in advancing our understanding of structure and galaxy formation in the Universe. These …

Early galaxy formation and its large-scale effects

P Dayal, A Ferrara - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Galaxy formation is at the heart of our understanding of cosmic evolution. Although there is a
consensus that galaxies emerged from the expanding matter background by gravitational …

A survey of high-z galaxies: serra simulations

A Pallottini, A Ferrara, S Gallerani… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We introduce serra, a suite of zoom-in high-resolution (, at z= 7.7) cosmological simulations
including non-equilibrium chemistry and on-the-fly radiative transfer. The outputs are post …

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 …

FIRE-3: updated stellar evolution models, yields, and microphysics and fitting functions for applications in galaxy simulations

PF Hopkins, A Wetzel, C Wheeler… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Increasingly, uncertainties in predictions from galaxy formation simulations (at sub-Milky
Way masses) are dominated by uncertainties in stellar evolution inputs. In this paper, we …

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 …

Enzo: An adaptive mesh refinement code for astrophysics

GL Bryan, ML Norman, BW O'Shea… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper describes the open-source code Enzo, which uses block-structured adaptive
mesh refinement to provide high spatial and temporal resolution for modeling astrophysical …

Theoretical challenges in galaxy formation

T Naab, JP Ostriker - Annual review of astronomy and …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Numerical simulations have become a major tool for understanding galaxy formation and
evolution. Over the decades the field has made significant progress. It is now possible to …

The birth of a galaxy–III. Propelling reionization with the faintest galaxies

JH Wise, VG Demchenko, MT Halicek… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Starlight from galaxies plays a pivotal role throughout the process of cosmic reionization. We
present the statistics of dwarf galaxy properties at z> 7 in haloes with masses up to 109 M⊙ …

Toward a complete accounting of energy and momentum from stellar feedback in galaxy formation simulations

O Agertz, AV Kravtsov, SN Leitner… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the momentum and energy budget of stellar feedback during different stages
of stellar evolution, and study its impact on the interstellar medium (ISM) using simulations of …