Seminars

Subproject A01: Cosmological Simulations of the Milky Way's Formation

Subproject A01: Cosmological Simulations of the Milky Way's Formation

Annalisa Pillepich (MPIA), Ralf S. Klessen (ITA)

Cosmological simulations of the Milky Way's formation provide highly detailed predictions that are crucial for our theoretical understanding of the origin of the Galaxy. We exploit the recent progress in numerical techniques and use the new IllustrisTNG50 simulation to uncover stellar population patterns in Milky Way-like galaxies across their morphological components. In a second phase, we plan to use IllustrisTNG50 as a starting point to further improve the modelling of Milky Way-like galaxies, with specific focus on feedback schemes and the chemical enrichment. We will combine the resulting merger trees with our semi-analytic model of first star formation to make detailed predictions for the metallicity distribution and abundance pattern of extremely metal-poor stars in the Local Group.

Publications

Chen, Li-Hsin; Hartwig, Tilman; Klessen, Ralf S.; Glover, Simon C. O.

Comparing simulated Milky Way satellite galaxies with observations using unsupervised clustering

12/2022 MNRAS 517, 6140

Beattie, James R.; Mocz, Philip; Federrath, Christoph; Klessen, Ralf S.

The density distribution and physical origins of intermittency in supersonic, highly magnetized turbulence with diverse modes of driving

12/2022 MNRAS 517, 5003

Donkov, S.; Stefanov, I. Zh; Veltchev, T. V.; Klessen, R. S.

Density distribution function of a self-gravitating isothermal turbulent fluid in the context of molecular cloud ensembles - III. Virial analysis

11/2022 MNRAS 516, 5726

Sotillo-Ramos, Diego; Pillepich, Annalisa; Donnari, Martina; Nelson, Dylan; Eisert, Lukas; Rodriguez-Gomez, Vicente; Joshi, Gandhali; Vogelsberger, Mark; Hernquist, Lars

The merger and assembly histories of Milky Way- and M31-like galaxies with TNG50: disc survival through mergers

11/2022 MNRAS 516, 5404

Hartwig, Tilman; Magg, Mattis; Chen, Li-Hsin; Tarumi, Yuta; Bromm, Volker; Glover, Simon C. O.; Ji, Alexander P.; Klessen, Ralf S.; Latif, Muhammad A.; Volonteri, Marta; Yoshida, Naoki

Public Release of A-SLOTH: Ancient Stars and Local Observables by Tracing Halos

09/2022 ApJ 936, 45

Prole, Lewis R.; Clark, Paul C.; Klessen, Ralf S.; Glover, Simon C. O.; Pakmor, Rüdiger

Primordial magnetic fields in Population III star formation: a magnetized resolution study

08/2022 MNRAS 516, 2223

Magg, Mattis; Reis, Itamar; Fialkov, Anastasia; Barkana, Rennan; Klessen, Ralf S.; Glover, Simon C. O.; Chen, Li-Hsin; Hartwig, Tilman; Schauer, Anna T. P.

Effect of the cosmological transition to metal-enriched star formation on the hydrogen 21-cm signal

08/2022 MNRAS 514, 4433

Colman, Tine; Robitaille, Jean-François; Hennebelle, Patrick; Miville-Deschênes, Marc-Antoine; Brucy, Noé; Klessen, Ralf S.; Glover, Simon C. O.; Soler, Juan D.; Elia, Davide; Traficante, Alessio; Molinari, Sergio; Testi, Leonardo

The signature of large-scale turbulence driving on the structure of the interstellar medium

08/2022 MNRAS 514, 3670

Sormani, Mattia C.; Gerhard, Ortwin; Portail, Matthieu; Vasiliev, Eugene; Clarke, Jonathan

The stellar mass distribution of the Milky Way's bar: an analytical model

07/2022 MNRAS 514, L1

Mandowara, Yash; Sormani, Mattia C.; Sobacchi, Emanuele; Klessen, Ralf S.

The physical origin and the properties of arm spurs/feathers in local simulations of the wiggle instability

07/2022 MNRAS 513, 5052

Soler, J. D.; Miville-Deschênes, M. -A.; Molinari, S.; Klessen, R. S.; Hennebelle, P.; Testi, L.; McClure-Griffiths, N. M.; Beuther, H.; Elia, D.; Schisano, E.; Traficante, A.; Girichidis, P.; Glover, S. C. O.; Smith, R. J.; Sormani, M.; Treß, R.

The Galactic dynamics revealed by the filamentary structure in atomic hydrogen emission

06/2022 A&A 662, A96

Schleicher, D. R. G.; Reinoso, B.; Latif, M.; Klessen, R. S.; Vergara, M. Z. C.; Das, A.; Alister, P.; Díaz, V. B.; Solar, P. A.

Origin of supermassive black holes in massive metal-poor protoclusters

06/2022 MNRAS 512, 6192

Gargiulo, Ignacio D.; Monachesi, Antonela; Gómez, Facundo A.; Nelson, Dylan; Pillepich, Annalisa; Pakmor, Rüdiger; Grand, R. J. J.; Fragkoudi, Francesca; Hernquist, Lars; Lovell, Mark; Marinacci, Federico

High and low Sérsic index bulges in Milky Way- and M31-like galaxies: origin and connection to the bar with TNG50

05/2022 MNRAS 512, 2537

Kang, Da Eun; Pellegrini, Eric W.; Ardizzone, Lynton; Klessen, Ralf S.; Koethe, Ullrich; Glover, Simon C. O.; Ksoll, Victor F.

Emission-line diagnostics of H II regions using conditional invertible neural networks

05/2022 MNRAS 512, 617

Jaura, Ondrej; Glover, Simon C. O.; Wollenberg, Katharina M. J.; Klessen, Ralf S.; Geen, Sam; Haemmerlé, Lionel

Trapping of H II regions in Population III star formation

05/2022 MNRAS 512, 116

Magg, Mattis; Schauer, Anna T. P.; Klessen, Ralf S.; Glover, Simon C. O.; Tress, Robin G.; Jaura, Ondrej

Metal Mixing in Minihalos: The Descendants of Pair-instability Supernovae

04/2022 ApJ 929, 119

Zhu, Ling; Pillepich, Annalisa; van de Ven, Glenn; Leaman, Ryan; Hernquist, Lars; Nelson, Dylan; Pakmor, Ruediger; Vogelsberger, Mark; Zhang, Le

Mass of the dynamically hot inner stellar halo predicts the ancient accreted stellar mass

04/2022 A&A 660, A20

Whitworth, David J.; Smith, Rowan J.; Tress, Robin; Kay, Scott T.; Glover, Simon C. O.; Sormani, Mattia C.; Klessen, Ralf S.

Is the molecular KS relationship universal down to low metallicities?

03/2022 MNRAS 510, 4146

Prole, Lewis R.; Clark, Paul C.; Klessen, Ralf S.; Glover, Simon C. O.

Fragmentation-induced starvation in Population III star formation: a resolution study

03/2022 MNRAS 510, 4019

Ibáñez-Mejía, Juan C.; Mac Low, Mordecai-Mark; Klessen, Ralf S.

Gravity versus Magnetic Fields in Forming Molecular Clouds

02/2022 ApJ 925, 196

Reinoso, Bastián; Leigh, Nathan W. C.; Barrera-Retamal, Carlos M.; Schleicher, Dominik; Klessen, Ralf S.; Stutz, Amelia M.

The mean free path approximation and stellar collisions in star clusters: numerical exploration of the analytic rates and the role of perturbations on binary star mergers

01/2022 MNRAS 509, 3724

Syed, J.; Soler, J. D.; Beuther, H.; Wang, Y.; Suri, S.; Henshaw, J. D.; Riener, M.; Bialy, S.; Rezaei Kh., S.; Stil, J. M.; Goldsmith, P. F.; Rugel, M. R.; Glover, S. C. O.; Klessen, R. S.; Kerp, J.; Urquhart, J. S.; Ott, J.; Roy, N.; Schneider, N.; Smith, R. J.; Longmore, S. N.; Linz, H.

The "Maggie" filament: Physical properties of a giant atomic cloud

01/2022 A&A 657, A1

Pillepich, Annalisa; Nelson, Dylan; Truong, Nhut; Weinberger, Rainer; Martin-Navarro, Ignacio; Springel, Volker; Faber, Sandy M.; Hernquist, Lars

X-ray bubbles in the circumgalactic medium of TNG50 Milky Way- and M31-like galaxies: signposts of supermassive black hole activity

12/2021 MNRAS 508, 4667

Joshi, Gandhali D.; Pillepich, Annalisa; Nelson, Dylan; Zinger, Elad; Marinacci, Federico; Springel, Volker; Vogelsberger, Mark; Hernquist, Lars

The cumulative star formation histories of dwarf galaxies with TNG50. I: environment-driven diversity and connection to quenching

12/2021 MNRAS 508, 1652

Truong, Nhut; Pillepich, Annalisa; Nelson, Dylan; Werner, Norbert; Hernquist, Lars

Predictions for anisotropic X-ray signatures in the circumgalactic medium: imprints of supermassive black hole driven outflows

12/2021 MNRAS 508, 1563

Schauer, Anna T. P.; Bromm, Volker; Boylan-Kolchin, Michael; Glover, Simon C. O.; Klessen, Ralf S.

Globular Clusters and Streaming Velocities: Testing the New Formation Channel in High-resolution Cosmological Simulations

12/2021 ApJ 922, 193

Engler, Christoph; Pillepich, Annalisa; Pasquali, Anna; Nelson, Dylan; Rodriguez-Gomez, Vicente; Chua, Kun Ting Eddie; Grebel, Eva K.; Springel, Volker; Marinacci, Federico; Weinberger, Rainer; Vogelsberger, Mark; Hernquist, Lars

The abundance of satellites around Milky Way- and M31-like galaxies with the TNG50 simulation: a matter of diversity

11/2021 MNRAS 507, 4211

Schauer, Anna T. P.; Glover, Simon C. O.; Klessen, Ralf S.; Clark, Paul

The influence of streaming velocities and Lyman-Werner radiation on the formation of the first stars

10/2021 MNRAS 507, 1775

Donnari, Martina; Pillepich, Annalisa; Nelson, Dylan; Marinacci, Federico; Vogelsberger, Mark; Hernquist, Lars

Quenched fractions in the IllustrisTNG simulations: comparison with observations and other theoretical models

10/2021 MNRAS 506, 4760

Donkov, S.; Stefanov, I. Zh; Veltchev, T. V.; Klessen, R. S.

Density profile of a self-gravitating polytropic turbulent fluid in the context of ensembles of molecular clouds

08/2021 MNRAS 505, 3655

Beattie, James R.; Mocz, Philip; Federrath, Christoph; Klessen, Ralf S.

A multishock model for the density variance of anisotropic, highly magnetized, supersonic turbulence

07/2021 MNRAS 504, 4354

Ksoll, Victor F.; Gouliermis, Dimitrios; Sabbi, Elena; Ryon, Jenna E.; Robberto, Massimo; Gennaro, Mario; Klessen, Ralf S.; Koethe, Ullrich; de Marchi, Guido; Chen, C. -H. Rosie; Cignoni, Michele; Dolphin, Andrew E.

Measuring Young Stars in Space and Time. II. The Pre-main-sequence Stellar Content of N44

06/2021 AJ 161, 257

Measuring Young Stars in Space and Time. I. The Photometric Catalog and Extinction Properties of N44

06/2021 AJ 161, 256

Kong, Shuo; Arce, Héctor G.; Carpenter, John M.; Bally, John; Ossenkopf-Okada, Volker; Sánchez-Monge, Álvaro; Sargent, Anneila I.; Suri, Sümeyye; McGehee, Peregrine; Lis, Dariusz C.; Klessen, Ralf S.; Mairs, Steve; Zucker, Catherine; Smith, Rowan J.; Nakamura, Fumitaka; Pillai, Thushara G. S.; Kauffmann, Jens; Zhang, Shaobo

High-resolution CARMA Observation of Molecular Gas in the North America and Pelican Nebulae

05/2021 AJ 161, 229

Vergara, M. Z. C.; Schleicher, D. R. G.; Boekholt, T. C. N.; Reinoso, B.; Fellhauer, M.; Klessen, R. S.; Leigh, N. W. C.

Stellar collisions in flattened and rotating Population III star clusters

05/2021 A&A 649, A160

Takemura, Hideaki; Nakamura, Fumitaka; Kong, Shuo; Arce, Héctor G.; Carpenter, John M.; Ossenkopf-Okada, Volker; Klessen, Ralf; Sanhueza, Patricio; Shimajiri, Yoshito; Tsukagoshi, Takashi; Kawabe, Ryohei; Ishii, Shun; Dobashi, Kazuhito; Shimoikura, Tomomi; Goldsmith, Paul F.; Sánchez-Monge, Álvaro; Kauffmann, Jens; Pillai, Thushara G. S.; Padoan, Paolo; Ginsberg, Adam; Smith, Rowan J.; Bally, John; Mairs, Steve; Pineda, Jaime E.; Lis, Dariusz C.; Burkhart, Blakesley; Schilke, Peter; Chen, Hope How-Huan; Isella, Andrea; Friesen, Rachel K.; Goodman, Alyssa A.; Harper, Doyal A.

The Core Mass Function in the Orion Nebula Cluster Region: What Determines the Final Stellar Masses?

03/2021 ApJ 910, L6

Orr, Matthew E.; Hatchfield, H. Perry; Battersby, Cara; Hayward, Christopher C.; Hopkins, Philip F.; Wetzel, Andrew; Benincasa, Samantha M.; Loebman, Sarah R.; Sormani, Mattia C.; Klessen, Ralf S.

Fiery Cores: Bursty and Smooth Star Formation Distributions across Galaxy Centers in Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations

02/2021 ApJ 908, L31

Álvarez-Gutiérrez, R. H.; Stutz, A. M.; Law, C. Y.; Reissl, S.; Klessen, R. S.; Leigh, N. W. C.; Liu, H. -L.; Reeves, R. A.

Filament Rotation in the California L1482 Cloud

02/2021 ApJ 908, 86

Martín-Navarro, Ignacio; Pillepich, Annalisa; Nelson, Dylan; Rodriguez-Gomez, Vicente; Donnari, Martina; Hernquist, Lars; Springel, Volker

Anisotropic satellite galaxy quenching modulated by black hole activity

01/2021 Natur 594, 187

Federrath, Christoph; Klessen, Ralf S.; Iapichino, Luigi; Beattie, James R.

The sonic scale of interstellar turbulence

01/2021 NatAs 5, 365

Izquierdo, Andrés F.; Smith, Rowan J.; Glover, Simon C. O.; Klessen, Ralf S.; Treß, Robin G.; Sormani, Mattia C.; Clark, Paul C.; Duarte-Cabral, Ana; Zucker, Catherine

The Cloud Factory II: gravoturbulent kinematics of resolved molecular clouds in a galactic potential

01/2021 MNRAS 500, 5268

Donnari, Martina; Pillepich, Annalisa; Joshi, Gandhali D.; Nelson, Dylan; Genel, Shy; Marinacci, Federico; Rodriguez-Gomez, Vicente; Pakmor, Rüdiger; Torrey, Paul; Vogelsberger, Mark; Hernquist, Lars

Quenched fractions in the IllustrisTNG simulations: the roles of AGN feedback, environment, and pre-processing

01/2021 MNRAS 500, 4004

Kong, Shuo; Ossenkopf-Okada, Volker; Arce, Héctor G.; Bally, John; Sánchez-Monge, Álvaro; McGehee, Peregrine; Suri, Sümeyye; Klessen, Ralf S.; Carpenter, John M.; Lis, Dariusz C.; Nakamura, Fumitaka; Schilke, Peter; Smith, Rowan J.; Mairs, Steve; Goodman, Alyssa; Maureira, María José

The CARMA-NRO Orion Survey: Filament Formation via Collision-induced Magnetic Reconnection—the Stick in Orion A

01/2021 ApJ 906, 80

Ksoll, Victor F.; Ardizzone, Lynton; Klessen, Ralf; Koethe, Ullrich; Sabbi, Elena; Robberto, Massimo; Gouliermis, Dimitrios; Rother, Carsten; Zeidler, Peter; Gennaro, Mario

Stellar parameter determination from photometry using invertible neural networks

12/2020 MNRAS 499, 5447

Tress, Robin G.; Sormani, Mattia C.; Glover, Simon C. O.; Klessen, Ralf S.; Battersby, Cara D.; Clark, Paul C.; Hatchfield, H. Perry; Smith, Rowan J.

Simulations of the Milky Way's central molecular zone - I. Gas dynamics

12/2020 MNRAS 499, 4455

Sormani, Mattia C.; Magorrian, John; Nogueras-Lara, Francisco; Neumayer, Nadine; Schönrich, Ralph; Klessen, Ralf S.; Mastrobuono-Battisti, Alessandra

Jeans modelling of the Milky Way's nuclear stellar disc

11/2020 MNRAS 499, 7

Mardini, Mohammad K.; Placco, Vinicius M.; Meiron, Yohai; Ishchenko, Marina; Avramov, Branislav; Mazzarini, Matteo; Berczik, Peter; Arca Sedda, Manuel; Beers, Timothy C.; Frebel, Anna; Taani, Ali; Donnari, Martina; Al-Wardat, Mashhoor A.; Zhao, Gang

Cosmological Insights into the Early Accretion of r-process-enhanced Stars. I. A Comprehensive Chemodynamical Analysis of LAMOST J1109+0754

11/2020 ApJ 903, 88

De Pree, C. G.; Wilner, D. J.; Kristensen, L. E.; Galván-Madrid, R.; Goss, W. M.; Klessen, R. S.; Mac Low, M. -M.; Peters, T.; Robinson, A.; Sloman, S.; Rao, M.

Time-variable Radio Recombination Line Emission in W49A

11/2020 AJ 160, 234

Soler, J. D.; Beuther, H.; Syed, J.; Wang, Y.; Anderson, L. D.; Glover, S. C. O.; Hennebelle, P.; Heyer, M.; Henning, Th.; Izquierdo, A. F.; Klessen, R. S.; Linz, H.; McClure-Griffiths, N. M.; Ott, J.; Ragan, S. E.; Rugel, M.; Schneider, N.; Smith, R. J.; Sormani, M. C.; Stil, J. M.; Treß, R.; Urquhart, J. S.

The history of dynamics and stellar feedback revealed by the H I filamentary structure in the disk of the Milky Way

10/2020 A&A 642, A163

Henshaw, Jonathan D.; Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik; Longmore, Steven N.; Riener, Manuel; Leroy, Adam K.; Rosolowsky, Erik; Ginsburg, Adam; Battersby, Cara; Chevance, Mélanie; Meidt, Sharon E.; Glover, Simon C. O.; Hughes, Annie; Kainulainen, Jouni; Klessen, Ralf S.; Schinnerer, Eva; Schruba, Andreas; Beuther, Henrik; Bigiel, Frank; Blanc, Guillermo A.; Emsellem, Eric; Henning, Thomas; Herrera, Cynthia N.; Koch, Eric W.; Pety, Jérôme; Ragan, Sarah E.; Sun, Jiayi

Ubiquitous velocity fluctuations throughout the molecular interstellar medium

07/2020 NatAs 4, 1064

Syed, J.; Wang, Y.; Beuther, H.; Soler, J. D.; Rugel, M. R.; Ott, J.; Brunthaler, A.; Kerp, J.; Heyer, M.; Klessen, R. S.; Henning, Th.; Glover, S. C. O.; Goldsmith, P. F.; Linz, H.; Urquhart, J. S.; Ragan, S. E.; Johnston, K. G.; Bigiel, F.

Atomic and molecular gas properties during cloud formation

10/2020 A&A 642, A68

Anderson, L. D.; Sormani, M. C.; Ginsburg, Adam; Glover, Simon C. O.; Heywood, I.; Rammala, I.; Schuller, F.; Csengeri, T.; Urquhart, J. S.; Bronfman, Leonardo

Unusual Galactic H II Regions at the Intersection of the Central Molecular Zone and the Far Dust Lane

09/2020 ApJ 901, 51

Magg, Mattis; Nordlander, Thomas; Glover, Simon C. O.; Hansen, Camilla J.; Ishigaki, Miho; Heger, Alexander; Klessen, Ralf S.; Kobayashi, Chiaki; Nomoto, Ken'ichi

A minimum dilution scenario for supernovae and consequences for extremely metal-poor stars

08/2020 MNRAS 498, 3703

Sormani, Mattia C.; Tress, Robin G.; Glover, Simon C. O.; Klessen, Ralf S.; Battersby, Cara D.; Clark, Paul C.; Hatchfield, H. Perry; Smith, Rowan J.

Simulations of the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone - II. Star formation

07/2020 MNRAS 497, 5024

Sormani, Mattia C.; Li, Zhi

Do nuclear rings in barred galaxies form at the shear minimum of the rotation curve?

05/2020 MNRAS 494, 6030

Wollenberg, Katharina M. J.; Glover, Simon C. O.; Clark, Paul C.; Klessen, Ralf S.

Formation sites of Population III star formation: The effects of different levels of rotation and turbulence on the fragmentation behaviour of primordial gas

02/2020 MNRAS 494, 1871

Alister Seguel, P. J.; Schleicher, D. R. G.; Boekholt, T. C. N.; Fellhauer, M.; Klessen, R. S.

Formation of SMBH seeds in Population III star clusters through collisions: the importance of mass loss

04/2020 MNRAS 493, 2352

Obreja, Aura; Dutton, Aaron A.; Macciò, Andrea V.; Moster, Benjamin; Buck, Tobias; van den Ven, Glenn; Wang, Liang; Stinson, Gregory S.; Zhu, Ling

NIHAO XVI: the properties and evolution of kinematically selected discs, bulges, and stellar haloes

08/2019 MNRAS 487, 4424

Magg, Mattis; Klessen, Ralf S.; Glover, Simon C. O.; Li, Haining

Observational constraints on the survival of pristine stars

07/2019 MNRAS 487, 486

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