Search Results - "Devriendt, Julien E."
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Early-type Galaxy Spin Evolution in the Horizon-AGN Simulation
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-04-2018)“…Using the Horizon-AGN simulation data, we study the relative role of mergers and environmental effects in shaping the spin of early-type galaxies (ETGs) after…”
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Cosmic CARNage II: the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function in observations and galaxy formation models
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-10-2018)“…We present a comparison of the observed evolving galaxy stellar mass functions with the predictions of eight semi-analytic models and one halo occupation…”
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Towards simulating star formation in the interstellar medium
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-01-2005)“…As a first step to a more complete understanding of the local physical processes which determine star formation rates (SFRs) in the interstellar medium (ISM),…”
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Cooling, Gravity, and Geometry: Flow-driven Massive Core Formation
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-02-2008)“…We study numerically the formation of molecular clouds in large-scale colliding flows including self-gravity. The models emphasize the competition between the…”
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The Birth of Molecular Clouds: Formation of Atomic Precursors in Colliding Flows
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-09-2006)“…Molecular cloud complexes (MCCs)are highly structured and "turbulent." Observational evidence suggests that MCCs are dynamically dominated systems, rather than…”
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Formation of Structure in Molecular Clouds: A Case Study
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-11-2005)“…Molecular clouds (MCs) are highly structured and turbulent. Colliding gas streams of atomic hydrogen have been suggested as a possible source of MCs,…”
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MoMaF: the Mock Map Facility
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-06-2005)“…We present the Mock Map Facility, a powerful tool for converting theoretical outputs of hierarchical galaxy formation models into catalogues of virtual…”
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The origin and evolution of the mass-metallicity relation at high redshift using galics
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-02-2011)“…The Galaxies in Cosmological Simulations (galics) semi-analytical model of hierarchical galaxy formation is used to investigate the effects of different…”
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Magnetized Nonlinear Thin-Shell Instability: Numerical Studies in Two Dimensions
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-08-2007)“…We revisit the analysis of the nonlinear thin shell instability (NTSI) numerically, including magnetic fields. The magnetic tension force is expected to work…”
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A simple model for the evolution of supermassive black holes and the quasar population
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-06-2005)“…An empirically motivated model is presented for accretion-dominated growth of supermassive black holes (SMBH) in galaxies, and the implications are studied for…”
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nIFTy cosmology: comparison of galaxy formation models
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-08-2015)“…We present a comparison of 14 galaxy formation models: 12 different semi-analytical models and 2 halo occupation distribution models for galaxy formation based…”
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galics– V: Low- and high-order clustering in mock Sloan Digital Sky Surveys
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-07-2006)“…We use the galics hybrid model of galaxy formation to explore the nature of galaxy clustering in the local Universe. We bring the theoretical predictions of…”
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Cosmic CARNage I: on the calibration of galaxy formation models
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-04-2018)“…Abstract We present a comparison of nine galaxy formation models, eight semi-analytical, and one halo occupation distribution model, run on the same underlying…”
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galics- III. Properties of Lyman-break galaxies at a redshift of 3
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-08-2004)“…ABSTRACT This paper illustrates how mock observational samples of high-redshift galaxies with sophisticated selection criteria can be extracted from the…”
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Turbulent Ambipolar Diffusion: Numerical Studies in Two Dimensions
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Early-type galaxy spin evolution in the Horizon-AGN simulation
Published 14-04-2018“…Using the Horizon-AGN simulation data, we study the relative role of mergers and environmental effects in shaping the spin of early-type galaxies (ETGs) after…”
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nIFTy cosmology: the clustering consistency of galaxy formation models
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-07-2017)“…Abstract We present a clustering comparison of 12 galaxy formation models [including semi-analytic models (SAMs) and halo occupation distribution (HOD) models]…”
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Contribution of galaxies to the background hydrogen-ionizing flux
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-08-1998)“…We estimate the evolution of the contribution of galaxies to the cosmic background flux at 912 Å by means of a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation and…”
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galics- I. A hybrid N-body/semi-analytic model of hierarchical galaxy formation
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-07-2003)“…This is the first paper of a series that describes the methods and basic results of the galics model (Galaxies In Cosmological Simulations). galics is a hybrid…”
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