Gas kinematics, morphology and angular momentum in the FIRE simulations

Abstract We study the z = 0 gas kinematics, morphology and angular momentum content of isolated galaxies in a suite of cosmological zoom-in simulations from the FIRE project spanning Mstar = 106–11 M⊙. Gas becomes increasingly rotationally supported with increasing galaxy mass. In the lowest mass ga...

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Published in:Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2018-01, Vol.473 (2), p.1930-1955
Main Authors: El-Badry, Kareem, Quataert, Eliot, Wetzel, Andrew, Hopkins, Philip F., Weisz, Daniel R., Chan, T. K., Fitts, Alex, Boylan-Kolchin, Michael, Kereš, Dušan, Faucher-Giguère, Claude-André, Garrison-Kimmel, Shea
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Language:English
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Summary:Abstract We study the z = 0 gas kinematics, morphology and angular momentum content of isolated galaxies in a suite of cosmological zoom-in simulations from the FIRE project spanning Mstar = 106–11 M⊙. Gas becomes increasingly rotationally supported with increasing galaxy mass. In the lowest mass galaxies (Mstar 
ISSN:0035-8711
1365-2966
DOI:10.1093/mnras/stx2482