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  1. The relationship between galaxy size and halo properties: insights from the IllustrisTNG simulations and differential clustering

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    The physical origin of the radial sizes of galaxies and how galaxy sizes are correlated with the properties of their host dark matter halos is an open question …
  2. The Thermodynamic and Kinematic Evolution of Circumgalactic Gas around z = 1 in the IllustrisTNG Model

    Publication
    The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is known to contain multiphase gas in various stages of evolution and interaction with the galaxy. In order to characterize its detailed behavior on …
  3. Cosmological back-reaction of baryons on dark matter in the CAMELS simulations

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    Baryonic processes such as radiative cooling and feedback from massive stars and active galactic nuclei (AGN) directly redistribute baryons in the Universe but also indirectly redistribute dark matter …
  4. The Cosmic Baryon Cycle in IllustrisTNG: Flows of Mass, Energy, and Metals

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    We measure and analyze the inflows and outflows of mass, energy, and metals through the interstellar medium (ISM) and circumgalactic medium (CGM) of galaxies in the IllustrisTNG100 simulations …
  5. On the Significance of Covariance for Constraining Theoretical Models from Galaxy Observables

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    In this study, we investigate the impact of covariance within uncertainties on the inference of cosmological and astrophysical parameters, specifically focusing on galaxy stellar mass functions derived from …
  6. One Latent to Fit Them All: A Unified Representation of Baryonic Feedback on Matter Distribution

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    Accurate and parsimonious quantification of baryonic feedback on matter distribution is of crucial importance for understanding both cosmology and galaxy formation from observational data. This is, however, challenging …
  7. The Effect of Intrinsic Alignments on Weak-lensing Statistics in Hydrodynamical Simulations

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    The next generation of weak gravitational lensing surveys has the potential to place stringent constraints on cosmological parameters. However, their analysis is limited by systematics such as the …
  8. On the Frequency of Multiple Galaxy Mergers in \(\Lambda\)CDM Cosmological Simulations

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    Mergers are believed to play a pivotal role in galaxy evolution, and measuring the galaxy merger fraction is a longstanding goal of both observational and theoretical studies. In …
  9. How Does Feedback Affect the Star Formation Histories of Galaxies?

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    Star formation in galaxies is regulated by the interplay of a range of processes that shape the multiphase gas in the interstellar and circumgalactic media. Using the Cosmology …
  10. Toward Robustness across Cosmological Simulation Models IllustrisTNG, SIMBA, Astrid, and Swift-Eagle

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    The rapid advancement of large-scale cosmological simulations has opened new avenues for cosmological and astrophysical research. However, the increasing diversity among cosmological simulation models presents a challenge …
  11. Enhanced Star Formation and Black Hole Accretion Rates in Galaxy Mergers in IllustrisTNG50

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    Many theoretical and observational studies have suggested that galaxy mergers may trigger enhanced star formation or active galactic nucleus activity. We present an analysis of merging and nonmerging …
  12. Cosmology with One Galaxy: Autoencoding the Galaxy Properties Manifold

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    Cosmological simulations like CAMELS and IllustrisTNG characterize hundreds of thousands of galaxies using various internal properties. Previous studies have demonstrated that machine learning can be used to infer …
  13. X-Raying CAMELS: Constraining Baryonic Feedback in the Circumgalactic Medium with the CAMELS Simulations and eRASS X-Ray Observations

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    The circumgalactic medium (CGM) around massive galaxies plays a crucial role in regulating star formation and feedback. Using the Cosmology and Astrophysics with MachinE Learning Simulations (CAMELS) suite …
  14. Introducing the DREAMS Project: DaRk mattEr and Astrophysics with Machine Learning and Simulations

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    We introduce the DaRk mattEr and Astrophysics with Machine learning and Simulations (DREAMS) project, an innovative approach to understanding the astrophysical implications of alternative dark matter (DM) models …
  15. Cosmological and Astrophysical Parameter Inference from Stacked Galaxy Cluster Profiles Using CAMELS-zoomGZ

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    We present a study on the inference of cosmological and astrophysical parameters using stacked galaxy cluster profiles. Utilizing the CAMELS-zoomGZ simulations, we explore how various cluster properties …
  16. The complex relationship between black hole feedback, star formation, and stellar bars in TNG50

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    We use the cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical simulation TNG50 to study the relationship between black hole feedback, the presence of stellar bars, and star formation quenching in Milky Way …
  17. Quantifying Baryonic Feedback on the Warm–Hot Circumgalactic Medium in CAMELS Simulations

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    The baryonic physics shaping galaxy formation and evolution are complex, spanning a vast range of scales and making them challenging to model. Cosmological simulations rely on subgrid models …
  18. Why Do Semianalytic Models Predict Higher Scatter in the Stellar Mass–Halo Mass Relation Than Cosmological Hydrodynamic Simulations?

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    Semi-analytic models (SAMs) systematically predict higher stellar-mass scatter at a given halo mass than hydrodynamical simulations and most empirical models. Our goal is to investigate the …
  19. Toward Implementation of the Pressure-regulated, Feedback-modulated Model of Star Formation in Cosmological Simulations: Methods and Application to TNG

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    Traditional star formation subgrid models implemented in cosmological galaxy formation simulations, such as that of V. Springel & L. Hernquist (hereafter SH03), employ adjustable parameters to satisfy constraints measured …
  20. Sunyaev–Zeldovich Signals from L* Galaxies: Observations, Analytics, and Simulations

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    We analyze measurements of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect arising in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of \(L^*\) galaxies, reported by Bregman et al. 2022 and Das et …
  21. The baryon cycle in modern cosmological hydrodynamical simulations

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    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 …
  22. Observational Predictions for the Survival of Atomic Hydrogen in Simulated Fornax-like Galaxy Clusters

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    The presence of dense, neutral hydrogen clouds in the hot, diffuse intra-group and intra-cluster medium is an important clue to the physical processes controlling the survival …
  23. Zooming by in the CARPoolGP Lane: New CAMELS-TNG Simulations of Zoomed-in Massive Halos

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    Galaxy formation models within cosmological hydrodynamical simulations contain numerous parameters with non-trivial influences over the resulting properties of simulated cosmic structures and galaxy populations. It is computationally …
  24. Leaving No Branches Behind: Predicting Baryonic Properties of Galaxies from Merger Trees

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    Galaxies play a key role in our endeavor to understand how structure formation proceeds in the Universe. For any precision study of cosmology or galaxy formation, there is …
  25. Cosmological baryon spread and impact on matter clustering in CAMELS

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    We quantify the cosmological spread of baryons relative to their initial neighboring dark matter distribution using thousands of state-of-the-art simulations from the Cosmology and Astrophysics …
  26. Boundaries of chaos and determinism in the cosmos

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    According to the standard model of cosmology, the arrangement of matter in the cosmos on scales much larger than galaxies is entirely specified by the initial conditions laid …
  27. Breaking baryon-cosmology degeneracy with the electron density power spectrum

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    Uncertain feedback processes in galaxies affect the distribution of matter, currently limiting the power of weak lensing surveys. If we can identify cosmological statistics that are robust against …
  28. A Comparison of Circumgalactic Mg ii Absorption between the TNG50 Simulation and the MEGAFLOW Survey

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    The circumgalactic medium (CGM) contains information on gas flows around galaxies, such as accretion and supernova-driven winds, which are difficult to constrain from observations alone. Here, we …
  29. A Framework for Multiphase Galactic Wind Launching Using TIGRESS

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    Galactic outflows have density, temperature, and velocity variations at least as large as that of the multiphase, turbulent interstellar medium (ISM) from which they originate. We have conducted …
  30. The CAMELS project: Cosmology and Astrophysics with MachinE Learning Simulations

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    We present the Cosmology and Astrophysics with MachinE Learning Simulations --CAMELS-- project. CAMELS is a suite of 4,233 cosmological simulations of …
  31. A study of stellar orbit fractions: simulated IllustrisTNG galaxies compared to CALIFA observations

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    Motivated by the recently discovered kinematic "Hubble sequence" shown by the stellar orbit-circularity distribution of 260 CALIFA galaxies, we make use of a comparable galaxy sample at …
  32. A Quantification of the Butterfly Effect in Cosmological Simulations and Implications for Galaxy Scaling Relations

    Publication
    We study the chaotic-like behavior of cosmological simulations by quantifying how minute perturbations grow over time and manifest as macroscopic differences in galaxy properties. When we run …
  33. Zooming in on accretion - II. Cold Circumgalactic Gas Simulated with a super-Lagrangian Refinement Scheme

    Publication
    In this study we explore the complex multi-phase gas of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) surrounding galaxies. We propose and implement a novel, super-Lagrangian 'CGM zoom' scheme …
  34. Suppressed Variance in Lyα Forest Simulations

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    We test a method to reduce unwanted sample variance when predicting Lyman-α (lyα) forest power spectra from cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. Sample variance arises due to sparse sampling …
  35. A Quantification of the Butterfly Effect in Cosmological Simulations and Implications for Galaxy Scaling Relations

    Publication
    We study the chaotic-like behavior of cosmological simulations by quantifying how minute perturbations grow over time and manifest as macroscopic differences in galaxy properties. When we run …
  36. Statistical properties of paired fixed fields

    Publication
    The initial conditions of cosmological simulations are commonly drawn from a Gaussian ensemble. The limited number of modes inside a simulation volume gives rise to statistical fluctuations known …
  37. Ingredients for 21cm intensity mapping

    Publication
    We study the abundance and clustering properties of HI at redshifts z⩽5 using TNG100, a large state-of-the-art magneto-hydrodynamic simulation of a 75 Mpc …
  38. Is the dark-matter halo spin a predictor of galaxy spin and size?

    Publication
    The similarity between the distributions of spins for galaxies (λg) and for dark-matter haloes (λh), indicated both by simulations and observations, is naively interpreted as a one …
  39. The fraction of dark matter within galaxies from the IllustrisTNG simulations

    Publication
    We use the IllustrisTNG (TNG) cosmological simulations to provide theoretical expectations for the DM mass fractions (DMFs) and circular velocity profiles within the inner regions of haloes where …
  40. The abundance, distribution, and physical nature of highly ionized oxygen OVI, OVII, and OVIII in IllustrisTNG

    Publication
    We explore the abundance, spatial distribution, and physical properties of the OVI, OVII, and OVIII ions of oxygen in circumgalactic and intergalactic media (the CGM, IGM, and WHIM …
  41. Similar star formation rate and metallicity evolution timescales drive the fundamental metallicity relation

    Publication
    The fundamental metallicity relation (FMR) is a postulated correlation between galaxy stellar mass, star formation rate (SFR), and gas-phase metallicity. At its core, this relation posits that …
  42. The evolution of the mass-metallicity relation in IllustrisTNG

    Publication
    The coevolution of galaxies and their metal content serves as an important test for galaxy feedback models. We analyze the distribution and evolution of metals within the IllustrisTNG …
  43. Supermassive black holes and their feedback effects in the IllustrisTNG simulation

    Publication
    We study the population of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their effects on massive central galaxies in the IllustrisTNG cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation. The employed model …
  44. Implications of galaxy buildup for putative IMF variations in massive galaxies

    Publication
    Recent observational evidence for initial mass function (IMF) variations in massive quiescent galaxies at z=0 challenges the long-established paradigm of a universal IMF. While a few …
  45. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: radio haloes and magnetic fields

    Publication
    We introduce the IllustrisTNG project, a new suite of cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical simulations performed with the moving-mesh code AREPO employing an updated Illustris galaxy formation model. Here …
  46. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: the galaxy color bimodality

    Publication
    We introduce the first two simulations of the IllustrisTNG project, a next generation of cosmological magnetohydrodynamical simulations, focusing on the optical colors of galaxies. We explore TNG100, a …
  47. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: matter and galaxy clustering

    Publication
    We introduce the first two simulations of the IllustrisTNG project, a next generation of cosmological magnetohydrodynamical simulations, focusing on the optical colors of galaxies. We explore TNG100, a …
  48. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: A tale of two elements -- chemical evolution of magnesium and europium

    Publication
    The distribution of elements in galaxies provides a wealth of information about their production sites and their subsequent mixing into the interstellar medium. Here we investigate the distribution …
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