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Robert Thompson
Researcher at University of the Western Cape
Publications - 33
Citations - 2386
Robert Thompson is an academic researcher from University of the Western Cape. The author has contributed to research in topics: Galaxy & Star formation. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 28 publications receiving 2091 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert Thompson include University of Nevada, Las Vegas & University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
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MUFASA: Galaxy Formation Simulations With Meshless Hydrodynamics
TL;DR: The mufasa suite of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations as mentioned in this paper employs the gizmo meshless finite mass (MFM) code including H_2-based star formation, nine-element chemical evolution, two-phase kinetic outflows following scalings from the Feedback in Realistic Environments zoom simulations, and evolving halo mass-based quenching.
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The AGORA high-resolution galaxy simulations comparison project
Ji-hoon Kim,Tom Abel,Oscar Agertz,Oscar Agertz,Greg L. Bryan,Daniel Ceverino,Charlotte Christensen,Charlie Conroy,Avishai Dekel,Nickolay Y. Gnedin,Nickolay Y. Gnedin,Nathan J. Goldbaum,Javiera Guedes,Oliver Hahn,Alexander Hobbs,Philip F. Hopkins,Philip F. Hopkins,Cameron Hummels,Francesca Iannuzzi,Dušan Kereš,Anatoly Klypin,Andrey V. Kravtsov,Mark R. Krumholz,Michael Kuhlen,Michael Kuhlen,Samuel N. Leitner,Piero Madau,Lucio Mayer,Christopher E. Moody,Kentaro Nagamine,Kentaro Nagamine,Michael L. Norman,Jose Oñorbe,Brian W. O'Shea,Annalisa Pillepich,Joel R. Primack,Thomas R. Quinn,Justin I. Read,Brant Robertson,Miguel Rocha,Douglas H. Rudd,Sijing Shen,Britton D. Smith,Alexander S. Szalay,Romain Teyssier,Robert Thompson,Robert Thompson,Keita Todoroki,Matthew J. Turk,James Wadsley,John H. Wise,and Adi Zolotov +51 more
TL;DR: AGORA as mentioned in this paper is a comprehensive numerical study of well-resolved galaxies within the ΛCDM cosmology, which is run with a variety of code platforms to follow the hierarchical growth, star formation history, morphological transformation, and the cycle of baryons in and out of eight galaxies with halo masses M = 0.
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The AGORA High-Resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project
Ji-hoon Kim,Tom Abel,Oscar Agertz,Greg L. Bryan,Daniel Ceverino,Charlotte Christensen,Charlie Conroy,Avishai Dekel,Nickolay Y. Gnedin,Nathan J. Goldbaum,Javiera Guedes,Oliver Hahn,Alexander Hobbs,Philip F. Hopkins,Cameron Hummels,Francesca Iannuzzi,Dušan Kereš,Anatoly Klypin,Andrey V. Kravtsov,Mark R. Krumholz,Michael Kuhlen,Samuel N. Leitner,Piero Madau,Lucio Mayer,Christopher E. Moody,Kentaro Nagamine,Michael L. Norman,Jose Oñorbe,Brian W. O'Shea,Annalisa Pillepich,Joel R. Primack,Thomas R. Quinn,Justin I. Read,Brant Robertson,Miguel Rocha,Douglas H. Rudd,Sijing Shen,Britton D. Smith,Alexander S. Szalay,Romain Teyssier,Robert Thompson,Keita Todoroki,Matthew J. Turk,James Wadsley,John H. Wise,Adi Zolotov +45 more
TL;DR: AGORA as discussed by the authors is a comprehensive numerical study of well-resolved galaxies within the LCDM cosmology, which is run with a variety of code platforms to follow the hierarchical growth, star formation history, morphological transformation, and the cycle of baryons in and out of 8 galaxies with halo masses M_vir ~= 1.7e11, 1.1e10, 1e11 and 1e12.
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The formation of submillimetre-bright galaxies from gas infall over a billion years
Desika Narayanan,Matthew J. Turk,Robert Feldmann,Thomas P. Robitaille,Philip F. Hopkins,Robert Thompson,Christopher C. Hayward,Christopher C. Hayward,David Ball,Claude André Faucher-Giguère,Dušan Kereš +10 more
TL;DR: It is found that groups of galaxies residing in massive dark matter haloes have increasing rates of star formation that peak at collective rates of about 500–1,000 solar masses per year at redshifts of two to three, by which time the interstellar medium is sufficiently enriched with metals that the region may be observed as a submillimetre-selected system.
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Tracing inflows and outflows with absorption lines in circumgalactic gas
Amanda Brady Ford,Romeel Davé,Benjamin D. Oppenheimer,Benjamin D. Oppenheimer,N. Katz,J. A. Kollmeier,Robert Thompson,D. H. Weinberg +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how metal absorption lines within low-redshift galaxy halos trace the dynamical state of circumgalactic gas, using cosmological hydrodynamic simulations that include a well-vetted heuristic model for galactic outflows.