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2. Shining light on the hosts of the nano-Hertz gravitational wave sources: a theoretical perspective.
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Saeedzadeh, Vida, Mukherjee, Suvodip, Babul, Arif, Tremmel, Michael, and Quinn, Thomas R
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GRAVITATIONAL waves , *STELLAR mass , *SUPERMASSIVE black holes , *GALAXY clusters , *BINARY black holes , *GALAXY formation , *STELLAR populations - Abstract
The formation of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the Universe and its role in the properties of the galaxies is one of the open questions in astrophysics and cosmology. Though, traditionally, electromagnetic waves have been instrumental in direct measurements of SMBHs, significantly influencing our comprehension of galaxy formation, gravitational waves (GW) bring an independent avenue to detect numerous binary SMBHs in the observable Universe in the nano-Hertz range using the pulsar timing array observation. This brings a new way to understand the connection between the formation of binary SMBHs and galaxy formation if we can connect theoretical models with multimessenger observations namely GW data and galaxy surveys. Along these lines, we present here the first paper on this series based on romulus25 cosmological simulation on the properties of the host galaxies of SMBHs and propose on how this can be used to connect with observations of nano-Hertz GW signal and galaxy surveys. We show that the most dominant contribution to the background will arise from sources with high chirp masses which are likely to reside in low-redshift early-type galaxies with high stellar mass, largely old stellar population, and low star formation rate, and that reside at centres of galaxy groups and manifest evidence of recent mergers. The masses of the sources show a correlation with the halo mass and stellar mass of the host galaxies. This theoretical study will help in understanding the host properties of the GW sources and can help in establishing a connection with observations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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3. Structure and large-scale environment of galaxy pairs in the S-PLUS DR4.
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Cerdosino, M C, O'Mill, A L, Rodriguez, F, Taverna, A, Jr, L Sodré, Telles, E, Méndez-Hernández, H, Schoenell, W, Ribeiro, T, Kanaan, A, and de Oliveira, C Mendez
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GALAXY formation , *GALAXIES , *DATA release , *STELLAR mass , *GALAXY clusters , *LUMINOSITY - Abstract
In this paper, we use photometric data from the Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey Data Release 4 survey to identify isolated galaxy pairs and analyse their characteristics and properties. Our results align with previous spectroscopic studies, particularly in luminosity function parameters, suggesting a consistent trait among galaxy systems. Our findings reveal a high fraction of red galaxies across all samples, irrespective of projected distance, velocity difference, or luminosity ratio. We found that the proximity of a neighbour to its central galaxy influences its colour due to environmental effects. We also found that central and neighbour have different behaviours: central galaxies maintain a stable red colour regardless of luminosity, while neighbour colours vary based on luminosity ratios. When the central is significantly brighter, the neighbour tends to be less red. According to our division in red, blue, and mixed pairs, we found evidence of galactic conformity. The red pair fractions increase in closer pairs and in pairs of similar luminosity, indicating shared environments promoting red galaxy formation. Analysing local density, the expected colour–density relation is of course recovered, but it is strongly determined by the stellar mass of the pair. In denser environments, the red pair fractions increase, blue pairs decrease, and for the mixed pairs it depends on their stellar mass: more massive mixed pairs decrease their fraction, whereas the less massive ones increase it. These results shed light on the intricate relationship between galaxy pairs, their characteristics, and environmental influences on colour, providing insights into their evolutionary histories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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4. EDGE: The direct link between mass growth history and the extended stellar haloes of the faintest dwarf galaxies.
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Goater, Alex, Read, Justin I, Noël, Noelia E D, Orkney, Matthew D A, Kim, Stacy Y, Rey, Martin P, Andersson, Eric P, Agertz, Oscar, Pontzen, Andrew, Vieliute, Roberta, Kataria, Dhairya, and Jeneway, Kiah
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SPIRAL galaxies , *GALAXY clusters , *MILKY Way , *STELLAR mass , *DWARF galaxies , *GALAXY formation , *DARK matter - Abstract
Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs) are commonly found in close proximity to the Milky Way and other massive spiral galaxies. As such, their projected stellar ellipticity and extended light distributions are often thought to owe to tidal forces. In this paper, we study the projected stellar ellipticities and faint stellar outskirts of tidally isolated ultra-faints drawn from the 'Engineering Dwarfs at Galaxy Formation's Edge' (EDGE) cosmological simulation suite. Despite their tidal isolation, our simulated dwarfs exhibit a wide range of projected ellipticities (0.03 < ε < 0.85), with many possessing anisotropic extended stellar haloes that mimic tidal tails, but owe instead to late-time accretion of lower mass companions. Furthermore, we find a strong causal relationship between ellipticity and formation time of a UFD, which is robust to a wide variation in the feedback model. We show that the distribution of projected ellipticities in our suite of simulated EDGE dwarfs matches well with a sample of 19 Local Group dwarf galaxies and a sample of 11 isolated dwarf galaxies. Given ellipticity in EDGE arises from an ex-situ accretion origin, the agreement in shape indicates the ellipticities of some observed dwarfs may also originate from a non-tidal scenario. The orbital parameters of these observed dwarfs further support that they are not currently tidally disrupting. If the baryonic content in these galaxies is still tidally intact, then the same may be true for their dark matter content, making these galaxies in our Local Group pristine laboratories for testing dark matter and galaxy formation models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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