The current status of galaxy formation

By J. Silk, G. Mamon. 2012

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Understanding galaxy formation is one of the most pressing issues in cosmology. We review the current status of galaxy formation from both an observational and a theoretical perspective, and summarize the prospects for future advances.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation

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UniverseMachine: The correlation between galaxy growth and dark matter halo assembly from z = 0−10 (2018, background): “While the broad contours of galaxy formation physics are known (see Silk & Mamon 2012; Somerville & Davé 2015, for reviews), a fully predictive framework from first principles does not yet exist (see Naab & Ostriker 2017, for a review).”
ATLASGAL — towards a complete sample of massive star forming clumps ⋆ (2014, background): “However, the underlying physical processes involved in the formation of massive stars are still poorly defined and this presents a major hurdle to furthering understanding of the massive star formation itself and how galaxies evolve (e.g. Silk & Mamon 2012; Scannapieco et al. 2012).”
Cool Gas in High-Redshift Galaxies (2013, background): “Galaxy evolution has been the subject of many reviews in recent years (e.g. Shapley 2011, Renzini 2006, Giavalisco 2002, Silk & Mamon 2012) and the last decade has seen dramatic advances in our understanding of cosmic structure formation.”
The Evolution of Galaxy Structure Over Cosmic Time (2014, background): “For a general review of galaxy properties at z > 2 see Shapley (2011) for an observational perspective and Silk & Mamon (2012) for a theoretical one.”
The ALPINE-ALMA [CII] survey (2020, background): “…assembly in galaxies at different epochs is the result of several physical processes which, in combination, produce the remarkable observed evolution of the star formation rate density (SFRD) with cosmic time (Silk & Mamon 2012; Madau & Dickinson 2014; Dayal & Ferrara 2018, and references therein).”
PICO: Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins (2019, background): “What are the main physical mechanisms shaping the properties of galaxies [177, 178]: in situ processes, interactions, mergers, or cold flows from the intergalactic medium? And how do feedback processes work? To settle these issues we need direct information on the structure and dynamics of high-z ga”
General Relativity and Cosmology: Unsolved Questions and Future Directions (2016, background): “From a component which behaves like photons (since the particles have a very small mass and relativistic speeds), massive neutrinos lose energy and start behaving like baryonic matter [300,301].”
The massive end of the luminosity and stellar mass functions: Dependence on the fit to the light profile (2013, background): “…questions about the impact of feedback from active galactic nuclei, in the quasar and/or radio modes (e.g., Granato et al. 2004; Croton et al. 2006; Silk & Mamon 2012); even more so, if one considers that the baryon fraction of ellipticals at their formation epoch (z > 1) must have been even…”
Galaxies as simple dynamical systems: observational data disfavor dark matter and stochastic star formation (2014, unknown): “[151, 248–250]).”
Star formation sustained by gas accretion (2014, background): “Numerical simulations predict that accretion of metal-poor gas from the cosmic web fuels the formation of disk galaxies (e.g., Dekel & Birnboim 2006, Dekel et al. 2009, Silk & Mamon 2012, Genel et al. 2012b; see also Fig.”