Search Results - "Stinson, G. S."

Making Galaxies In a Cosmological Context: the need for early stellar feedback by Stinson, G. S., Brook, C., Macciò, A. V., Wadsley, J., Quinn, T. R., Couchman, H. M. P.

“…We introduce the Making Galaxies In a Cosmological Context (MAGICC) programme of smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations. We describe a parameter study of…”
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Cosmological galaxy formation simulations using smoothed particle hydrodynamics by Stinson, G. S., Bailin, J., Couchman, H., Wadsley, J., Shen, S., Nickerson, S., Brook, C., Quinn, T.

“…We present the McMaster Unbiased Galaxy Simulations (MUGS), the first nine galaxies of an unbiased selection ranging in total mass from 5 × 1011 M⊙ to 2 × 1012…”
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MAGICC haloes: confronting simulations with observations of the circumgalactic medium at z = 0 by Stinson, G. S., Brook, C., Prochaska, J. Xavier, Hennawi, Joe, Shen, Sijing, Wadsley, J., Pontzen, Andrew, Couchman, H. M. P., Quinn, T., Macciò, Andrea V., Gibson, Brad K.

“…Abstract We explore the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of two simulated star-forming galaxies with luminosities L ≈ 0.1 and 1 L ⋆ generated using the smooth…”
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The Aquila comparison project: the effects of feedback and numerical methods on simulations of galaxy formation by Scannapieco, C., Wadepuhl, M., Parry, O. H., Navarro, J. F., Jenkins, A., Springel, V., Teyssier, R., Carlson, E., Couchman, H. M. P., Crain, R. A., Vecchia, C. Dalla, Frenk, C. S., Kobayashi, C., Monaco, P., Murante, G., Okamoto, T., Quinn, T., Schaye, J., Stinson, G. S., Theuns, T., Wadsley, J., White, S. D. M., Woods, R.

“…We compare the results of various cosmological gas-dynamical codes used to simulate the formation of a galaxy in the Λ cold dark matter structure formation…”
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Breathing in Low-Mass Galaxies: A Study of Episodic Star Formation by Stinson, G. S, Dalcanton, J. J, Quinn, T, Kaufmann, T, Wadsley, J

“…We simulate the collapse of isolated dwarf galaxies using SPH + N-body simulations including a physically motivated description of the effects of supernova…”
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Feedback and the formation of dwarf galaxy stellar haloes by Stinson, G. S., Dalcanton, J. J., Quinn, T., Gogarten, S. M., Kaufmann, T., Wadsley, J.

“…Stellar population studies show that low-mass galaxies in all environments exhibit stellar haloes that are older and more spherically distributed than the main…”
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The distribution of metals in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of dwarf disc galaxies by Pilkington, K., Gibson, B. K., Brook, C. B., Calura, F., Stinson, G. S., Thacker, R. J., Michel-Dansac, L., Bailin, J., Couchman, H. M. P., Wadsley, J., Quinn, T. R., Maccio, A.

“…Abstract We examine the chemical properties of five cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of an M33-like disc galaxy which have been shown previously to be…”
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The Evolution of Central Group Galaxies in Hydrodynamical Simulations by Feldmann, R, Carollo, C. M, Mayer, L, Renzini, A, Lake, G, Quinn, T, Stinson, G. S, Yepes, G

“…We trace the evolution of central galaxies in three approx10{sup 13} M{sub sun} galaxy groups simulated at high resolution in cosmological hydrodynamical…”
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Disc heating: comparing the Milky Way with cosmological simulations by House, E. L., Brook, C. B., Gibson, B. K., Sánchez-Blázquez, P., Courty, S., Few, C. G., Governato, F., Kawata, D., Roškar, R., Steinmetz, M., Stinson, G. S., Teyssier, R.

“…We present an analysis of a suite of simulations run with different particle- and grid-based cosmological hydrodynamical codes and compare them with…”
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High-accuracy power spectra including baryonic physics in dynamical Dark Energy models by Casarini, L., Macciò, A. V., Bonometto, S. A., Stinson, G. S.

“…The next generation mass probes will obtain information on non-linear power spectra P(k, z) and their evolution, allowing us to investigate the nature of Dark…”
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The stellar metallicity distribution of disc galaxies and bulges in cosmological simulations by Calura, F., Gibson, B. K., Michel-Dansac, L., Stinson, G. S., Cignoni, M., Dotter, A., Pilkington, K., House, E. L., Brook, C. B., Few, C. G., Bailin, J., Couchman, H. M. P., Wadsley, J.

“…By means of high-resolution cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way (MW) like disc galaxies, we conduct an analysis of the associated stellar…”
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The cold gas content of bulgeless dwarf galaxies by Pilkington, K., Gibson, B. K., Calura, F., Brooks, A. M., Mayer, L., Brook, C. B., Stinson, G. S., Thacker, R. J., Few, C. G., Cunnama, D., Wadsley, J.

“…We present an analysis of the neutral hydrogen (H i) properties of a fully cosmological hydrodynamical dwarf galaxy, run with varying simulation parameters. As…”
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Advanced morphological galaxy classification: a comparison of observed and simulated galaxies by Hambleton, K. M., Gibson, B. K., Brook, C. B., Stinson, G. S., Conselice, C. J., Bailin, J., Couchman, H., Wadsley, J.

“…Encoded within the morphological structure of galaxies are clues related to their formation and evolutionary history. Recent advances pertaining to the…”
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Thin disc, thick disc and halo in a simulated galaxy by Brook, C. B., Stinson, G. S., Gibson, B. K., Kawata, D., House, E. L., Miranda, M. S., Macciò, A. V., Pilkington, K., Roškar, R., Wadsley, J., Quinn, T. R.

“…Abstract Within a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation, we form a disc galaxy with sub-components which can be assigned to a thin stellar disc, thick disc…”
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MaGICC thick disc - I. Comparing a simulated disc formed with stellar feedback to the Milky Way by Stinson, G. S., Bovy, J., Rix, H.-W., Brook, C., Roškar, R., Dalcanton, J. J., Macciò, A. V., Wadsley, J., Couchman, H. M. P., Quinn, T. R.

“…We analyse the structure and chemical enrichment of a Milky Way-like galaxy with a stellar mass of 2 × 1010 M, formed in a cosmological hydrodynamical…”
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Dark MaGICC: the effect of dark energy on disc galaxy formation. Cosmology does matter by Penzo, C., Macciò, A. V., Casarini, L., Stinson, G. S., Wadsley, J.

“…We present the Dark MaGICC (Making Galaxies in a Cosmological Context) project, which aims to investigate the effect of dark energy (DE) modelling on disc…”
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Galaxy formation with local photoionization feedback – II. Effect of X-ray emission from binaries and hot gas by Kannan, R., Vogelsberger, M., Stinson, G. S., Hennawi, J. F., Marinacci, F., Springel, V., Macciò, A. V.

“…We study how X-rays from stellar binary systems and the hot intracluster medium (ICM) affect the radiative cooling rates of gas in galaxies. Our study uses a…”
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Galaxy formation with local photoionization feedback - I. Methods by Kannan, R., Stinson, G. S., Macciò, A. V., Hennawi, J. F., Woods, R., Wadsley, J., Shen, S., Robitaille, T., Cantalupo, S., Quinn, T. R., Christensen, C.

“…We present a first study of the effect of local photoionizing radiation on gas cooling in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of galaxy formation. We…”
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NIHAO III: the constant disc gas mass conspiracy by Stinson, G. S., Dutton, A. A., Wang, L., Macciò, A. V., Herpich, J., Bradford, J. D., Quinn, T. R., Wadsley, J., Keller, B.

“…We show that the cool gas masses of galactic discs reach a steady state that lasts many Gyr after their last major merger in cosmological hydrodynamic…”
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The role of feedback in shaping the structure of the interstellar medium by Walker, A. P., Gibson, B. K., Pilkington, K., Brook, C. B., Dutta, P., Stanimirović, S., Stinson, G. S., Bailin, J.

“…We present an analysis of the role of feedback in shaping the neutral hydrogen (H i) content of simulated disc galaxies. For our analysis, we have used two…”
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