New Papers from FIRE
The past several months have been highly productive for the FIRE project, with a large number of new papers submitted on a variety of science …
AuthorClaude-Andre Faucher-Giguere
The Creation and Persistence of a Misaligned Gas Disc in a Simulated Early-type Galaxy
In a new paper, Freeke van de Voort and collaborators use a simulation of a massive galaxy from the FIRE project to study misaligned gas …
The Origin and Evolution of the Galaxy Mass-Metallicity Relation
In another recent paper led by Xiangcheng Ma, we use the FIRE simulations to study the origin of the mass-metallicity relation in galaxies. The mass-metallicity …
The escape of ionizing photons from early galaxies in FIRE
In a new paper led by Xiangcheng Ma, we use high-resolution simulations of early dwarf galaxies run with the FIRE stellar feedback physics to study …
GIZMO
A recent paper by Phil Hopkins introduces GIZMO, a flexible magneto-hydrodynamics+gravity code. GIZMO is derived from Gadget-3, with substantial improvements to the gravity and hydrodynamics …
Forged in FIRE: cusps, cores, and baryons in low-mass dwarf galaxies
Several studies have suggested that energy injection by time-variable stellar feedback can significantly affect the inner profiles of dark matter halos, especially in dwarf galaxies. …
Gusty, gaseous flows of FIRE
One of the key aspects of the FIRE simulations is that the explicit implementation of stellar feedback processes (photoionization, radiation pressure, stellar winds, and supernovae) …
Neutral hydrogen in galaxy halos at the peak of the cosmic star formation history
The FIRE simulations are uniquely well suited for studies of the circum-galactic medium (CGM), where the cosmological inflows and galactic winds that regulate star formation …
CIERA hosts FIRE workshop
On July 24-26, CIERA hosted a workshop for the FIRE project at Northwestern University. This workshop brought together FIRE collaborators and enabled us to make …
Galactic r-process enrichment by neutron star mergers in cosmological simulations of a Milky Way-mass galaxy
In a new paper (van de Voort et al.), available on the arXiv, we use simulations of a Milky Way-mass galaxy from the FIRE project …