Examinando por Autor "Bahé, Yannick M."

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    GOGREEN: A critical assessment of environmental trends in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations at z ≈ 1
    (Oxford University Press, 2023-01-01) Kukstas, Egidijus; Balogh, Michael L.; McCarthy, Ian G.; Bahé, Yannick M.; De Lucia, Gabriella; Jablonka, Pascale; Vulcani, Benedetta; Baxter, Devontae C.; Biviano, Andrea; Cerulo, Pierluigi; Chan, Jeffrey C.; Cooper, M. C.; Demarco, Ricardo; Finoguenov, Alexis; Font, Andreea S.; Lidman, Chris; Marchioni, Justin; McGee, Sean; Muzzin, Adam; Nantais, Julie; Old, Lyndsay; Pintos-Castro, Irene; Poggianti, Bianca; Reeves, Andrew M. M.; Rudnick, Gregory; Sarron, Florian; van der Burg, Remco; Webb, Kristi; Wilson, Gillian; Yee, Howard K. C.; Zaritsk, Dennis
    Recent observations have shown that the environmental quenching of galaxies at z ∼1 is qualitatively different to that in the local Universe. However, the physical origin of these differences has not yet been elucidated. In addition, while low-redshift comparisons between observed environmental trends and the predictions of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations are now routine, there have been relatively few comparisons at higher redshifts to date. Here we confront three state-of-the-art suites of simulations (BAHAMAS+MACSIS, EAGLE+Hydrangea, IllustrisTNG) with state-of-the-art observations of the field and cluster environments from the COSMOS/UltraVISTA and GOGREEN surveys, respectively, at z ∼1 to assess the realism of the simulations and gain insight into the evolution of environmental quenching. We show that while the simulations generally reproduce the stellar content and the stellar mass functions of quiescent and star-forming galaxies in the field, all the simulations struggle to capture the observed quenching of satellites in the cluster environment, in that they are overly efficient at quenching low-mass satellites. Furthermore, two of the suites do not sufficiently quench the highest mass galaxies in clusters, perhaps a result of insufficient feedback from AGN. The origin of the discrepancy at low stellar masses (M* ≲ 1010 M⊙), which is present in all the simulations in spite of large differences in resolution, feedback implementations, and hydrodynamical solvers, is unclear. The next generation of simulations, which will push to significantly higher resolution and also include explicit modelling of the cold interstellar medium, may help us to shed light on the low-mass tension.
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    The First Quenched Galaxies: When and How?
    (American Astronomical Society, 2024-05-01) Xie, Lizhi; De Lucia, Gabriella; Fontanot, Fabio; Hirschmann, Michaela; Bahé, Yannick M.; Balogh, Michael L.; Muzzin, Adam; Vulcani, Benedetta; Baxter, Devontae C.; Forrest, Ben; Wilson, Gillian; Rudnick, Gregory H.
    Many quiescent galaxies discovered in the early Universe by JWST raise fundamental questions on when and how these galaxies became and stayed quenched. Making use of the latest version of the semianalytic model GAEA that provides good agreement with the observed quenched fractions up to z ∼ 3, we make predictions for the expected fractions of quiescent galaxies up to z ∼ 7 and analyze the main quenching mechanism. We find that in a simulated box of 685 Mpc on a side, the first quenched massive (M ⋆ ∼ 1011 M ⊙), Milky Way-mass, and low-mass (M ⋆ ∼ 109.5 M ⊙) galaxies appear at z ∼ 4.5, z ∼ 6.2, and before z = 7, respectively. Most quenched galaxies identified at early redshifts remain quenched for more than 1 Gyr. Independently of galaxy stellar mass, the dominant quenching mechanism at high redshift is accretion disk feedback (quasar winds) from a central massive black hole, which is triggered by mergers in massive and Milky Way-mass galaxies and by disk instabilities in low-mass galaxies. Environmental stripping becomes increasingly more important at lower redshift.