Search Results - "Crain, Robert A."

The formation and assembly history of the Milky Way revealed by its globular cluster population by Kruijssen, J M Diederik, Pfeffer, Joel L, Reina-Campos, Marta, Crain, Robert A, Bastian, Nate

“…ABSTRACT We use the age–metallicity distribution of 96 Galactic globular clusters (GCs) to infer the formation and assembly history of the Milky Way (MW),…”
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The dark nemesis of galaxy formation: why hot haloes trigger black hole growth and bring star formation to an end by Bower, Richard G, Schaye, Joop, Frenk, Carlos S, Theuns, Tom, Schaller, Matthieu, Crain, Robert A, McAlpine, Stuart

“…Galaxies fall into two clearly distinct types: 'blue-sequence' galaxies which are rapidly forming young stars, and 'red-sequence' galaxies in which star…”
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The origin of scatter in the stellar mass–halo mass relation of central galaxies in the EAGLE simulation by Matthee, Jorryt, Schaye, Joop, Crain, Robert A, Schaller, Matthieu, Bower, Richard, Theuns, Tom

“…We use the hydrodynamical EAGLE simulation to study the magnitude and origin of the scatter in the stellar mass-halo mass relation for central galaxies. We…”
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The rapid growth phase of supermassive black holes by McAlpine, Stuart, Bower, Richard G, Rosario, David J, Crain, Robert A, Schaye, Joop, Theuns, Tom

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Galaxy cold gas contents in modern cosmological hydrodynamic simulations by Davé, Romeel, Crain, Robert A, Stevens, Adam R H, Narayanan, Desika, Saintonge, Amelie, Catinella, Barbara, Cortese, Luca

“…ABSTRACT We present a comparison of galaxy atomic and molecular gas properties in three recent cosmological hydrodynamic simulations, namely SIMBA, EAGLE, and…”
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The artemis simulations: stellar haloes of Milky Way-mass galaxies by Font, Andreea S, McCarthy, Ian G, Poole-Mckenzie, Robert, Stafford, Sam G, Brown, Shaun T, Schaye, Joop, Crain, Robert A, Theuns, Tom, Schaller, Matthieu

“…ABSTRACT We introduce the Assembly of high-ResoluTion Eagle-simulations of MIlky Way-type galaxieS (artemis) simulations, a new set of 42 zoomed-in,…”
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The eagle simulations of galaxy formation: the importance of the hydrodynamics scheme by Schaller, Matthieu, Dalla Vecchia, Claudio, Schaye, Joop, Bower, Richard G., Theuns, Tom, Crain, Robert A., Furlong, Michelle, McCarthy, Ian G.

“…We present results from a subset of simulations from the ‘Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments’ (eagle) suite in which the formulation of…”
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The EAGLE simulations of galaxy formation: calibration of subgrid physics and model variations by Crain, Robert A., Schaye, Joop, Bower, Richard G., Furlong, Michelle, Schaller, Matthieu, Theuns, Tom, Dalla Vecchia, Claudio, Frenk, Carlos S., McCarthy, Ian G., Helly, John C., Jenkins, Adrian, Rosas-Guevara, Yetli M., White, Simon D. M., Trayford, James W.

“…We present results from 13 cosmological simulations that explore the parameter space of the ‘Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments’ (EAGLE)…”
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The distribution of neutral hydrogen around high-redshift galaxies and quasars in the EAGLE simulation by Rahmati, Alireza, Schaye, Joop, Bower, Richard G., Crain, Robert A., Furlong, Michelle, Schaller, Matthieu, Theuns, Tom

“…The observed high covering fractions of neutral hydrogen ( ${\rm H\,\small {\rm I}}$ ) with column densities above ∼1017 cm−2 around Lyman-Break Galaxies…”
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The apostle project: Local Group kinematic mass constraints and simulation candidate selection by Fattahi, Azadeh, Navarro, Julio F., Sawala, Till, Frenk, Carlos S., Oman, Kyle A., Crain, Robert A., Furlong, Michelle, Schaller, Matthieu, Schaye, Joop, Theuns, Tom, Jenkins, Adrian

“…We use a large sample of isolated dark matter halo pairs drawn from cosmological N-body simulations to identify candidate systems whose kinematics match that…”
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The APOSTLE simulations: solutions to the Local Group's cosmic puzzles by Sawala, Till, Frenk, Carlos S., Fattahi, Azadeh, Navarro, Julio F., Bower, Richard G., Crain, Robert A., Vecchia, Claudio Dalla, Furlong, Michelle, Helly, John. C., Jenkins, Adrian, Oman, Kyle A., Schaller, Matthieu, Schaye, Joop, Theuns, Tom, Trayford, James, White, Simon D. M.

“…The Local Group galaxies offer some of the most discriminating tests of models of cosmic structure formation. For example, observations of the Milky Way (MW)…”
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An EAGLE’s view of ex situ galaxy growth by Davison, Thomas A, Norris, Mark A, Pfeffer, Joel L, Davies, Jonathan J, Crain, Robert A

“…ABSTRACT Modern observational and analytical techniques now enable the direct measurement of star formation histories and the inference of galaxy assembly…”
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A chronicle of galaxy mass assembly in the EAGLE simulation by Qu, Yan, Helly, John C, Bower, Richard G, Theuns, Tom, Crain, Robert A, Frenk, Carlos S, Furlong, Michelle, McAlpine, Stuart, Schaller, Matthieu, Schaye, Joop, White, Simon D M

“…We analyse the mass assembly of central galaxies in the Evolution and Assembly of Galaxies and their Environments (EAGLE) hydrodynamical simulations. We build…”
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What shapes the galaxy mass function? Exploring the roles of supernova-driven winds and active galactic nuclei by Bower, R. G., Benson, A. J., Crain, Robert A.

“…The observed stellar mass function (SMF) is very different to the halo mass function predicted by Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM), and it is widely accepted that…”
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The nature of submillimetre and highly star-forming galaxies in the EAGLE simulation by McAlpine, Stuart, Smail, Ian, Bower, Richard G, Swinbank, A M, Trayford, James W, Theuns, Tom, Baes, Maarten, Camps, Peter, Crain, Robert A, Schaye, Joop

“…ABSTRACT We exploit EAGLE, a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation, to reproduce the selection of the observed submillimetre (submm) galaxy population by…”
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The abundance of (not just) dark matter haloes by Sawala, Till, Frenk, Carlos S., Crain, Robert A., Jenkins, Adrian, Schaye, Joop, Theuns, Tom, Zavala, Jesus

“…We study the effect of baryons on the abundance of structures and substructures in a Λ cold dark matter (CDM) cosmology, using a pair of high-resolution…”
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The Fundamental Plane of star formation in galaxies revealed by the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulations by Lagos, Claudia del P., Theuns, Tom, Schaye, Joop, Furlong, Michelle, Bower, Richard G., Schaller, Matthieu, Crain, Robert A., Trayford, James W., Matthee, Jorryt

“…We investigate correlations between different physical properties of star-forming galaxies in the ‘Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments’…”
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The oldest and most metal-poor stars in the APOSTLE Local Group simulations by Starkenburg, Else, Oman, Kyle A, Navarro, Julio F, Crain, Robert A, Fattahi, Azadeh, Frenk, Carlos S, Sawala, Till, Schaye, Joop

“…We examine the spatial distribution of the oldest and most metal-poor stellar populations of Milky Way-sized galaxies using the A Project Of Simulating The…”
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Globular cluster formation and evolution in the context of cosmological galaxy assembly: open questions by Forbes, Duncan A., Bastian, Nate, Gieles, Mark, Crain, Robert A., Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik, Larsen, Søren S., Ploeckinger, Sylvia, Agertz, Oscar, Trenti, Michele, Ferguson, Annette M. N., Pfeffer, Joel, Gnedin, Oleg Y.

“…We discuss some of the key open questions regarding the formation and evolution of globular clusters (GCs) during galaxy formation and assembly within a…”
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Bent by baryons: the low-mass galaxy-halo relation by Sawala, Till, Frenk, Carlos S., Fattahi, Azadeh, Navarro, Julio F., Bower, Richard G., Crain, Robert A., Dalla Vecchia, Claudio, Furlong, Michelle, Jenkins, Adrian, McCarthy, Ian G., Qu, Yan, Schaller, Matthieu, Schaye, Joop, Theuns, Tom

“…The relation between galaxies and dark matter haloes is of vital importance for evaluating theoretical predictions of structure formation and galaxy formation…”
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