For a guaranteed list of up-to-date EAGLE publications, it’s best to check with the ADS, but we provide here a list of the reference and methods papers.
Publications
Reference articles | Database description | Methods articles | Analysis papers | Database articles
Reference papers (please cite both if referring to the project):
| Title | Authors | Link |
|---|---|---|
| The EAGLE project: Simulating the evolution and assembly of galaxies and their environments | Schaye et al. (2015) | ADS |
| The EAGLE simulations of galaxy formation: calibration of subgrid physics and model variations | Crain et al. (2015) | ADS |
The public release and database description:
The halo and galaxy catalogues, plus other data products, are available for public download via the same SQL web interface as used by the Millennium Simulation. To access the data, please register as a user.
| Title | Authors | Link |
|---|---|---|
| The EAGLE simulations of galaxy formation: public release of halo and galaxy catalogues | McAlpine et al. (2015) | ADS |
Methods papers
| Element | Paper | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| Gravity solver | The cosmological simulation code GADGET-2 | Springel (2005) |
| Radiative cooling | The effect of photoionization on the cooling rates of enriched, astrophysical plasmas | Wiersma, Schaye & Smith. (2009) |
| ISM dynamics & star formation | On the relation between the Schmidt and Kennicutt-Schmidt star formation laws and its implications for numerical simulations | Schaye & Dalla Vecchia (2008) |
| Chemical enrichment | Chemical enrichment in cosmological, smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations | Wiersma et al. (2009) |
| Stellar feedback | Simulating galactic outflows with thermal supernova feedback | Dalla Vecchia & Schaye (2012) |
| Black hole feedback | Cosmological simulations of the growth of supermassive black holes and feedback from active galactic nuclei: method and tests | Booth & Schaye (2009) |
| Black hole growth | The impact of angular momentum on black hole accretion rates in simulations of galaxy formation | Rosas-Guevara et al. (2015) |
| Time stepping | Implementation of feedback in smoothed particle hydrodynamics: towards concordance of methods | Durier & Dalla Vecchia (2012) |
Analysis papers
The following are papers written in collaboration with the EAGLE team under the EAGLE publication policy.
| Paper | Authors | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Evolution of galaxy stellar masses and star formation rates in the EAGLE simulations | Furlong et al. (2015) | ADS |
| The EAGLE simulations of galaxy formation: the importance of the hydrodynamics scheme | Schaller et al. (2015) | ADS |
| Baryon effects on the internal structure of ΛCDM haloes in the EAGLE simulations | Schaller et al. (2015) | ADS |
| The effect of baryons on the inner density profiles of rich clusters | Schaller et al. (2015) | ADS |
| Colours and luminosities of z = 0.1 galaxies in the EAGLE simulation | Trayford et al. (2015) | ADS |
| The distribution of neutral hydrogen around high-redshift galaxies and quasars in the EAGLE simulation | Rahmati et al. (2015) | ADS |
| Molecular hydrogen abundances of galaxies in the EAGLE simulations | Lagos et al. (2015) | ADS |
| The alignment and shape of dark matter, stellar, and hot gas distributions in the EAGLE and cosmo-OWLS simulations | Velliscig et al. (2015) | ADS |
| Intrinsic alignments of galaxies in the EAGLE and cosmo-OWLS simulations | Velliscig et al (2015) | ADS |
| Simulated Milky Way analogues: implications for dark matter indirect searches | Calore et al (2015) | ADS |
| The unexpected diversity of dwarf galaxy rotation curves | Oman et al. (2015) | ADS |
| Bent by baryons: the low-mass galaxy-halo relation | Sawala et al. (2015) | ADS |
| Recycled stellar ejecta as fuel for star formation and implications for the origin of the galaxy mass-metallicity relation | Segers et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Dark matter annihilation radiation in hydrodynamic simulations of Milky Way haloes | Schaller et al. (2016) | ADS |
| The distribution of atomic hydrogen in EAGLE galaxies: morphologies, profiles, and H I holes | Bahe et al. (2016) | ADS |
| The chosen few: the low-mass haloes that host faint galaxies | Sawala et al. (2016) | ADS |
| The APOSTLE project: Local Group kinematic mass constraints and simulation candidate selection | Fattahi et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Cosmic distribution of highly ionized metals and their physical conditions in the EAGLE simulations | Rahmati et al. (2016) | ADS |
| The APOSTLE simulations: solutions to the Local Group's cosmic puzzles | Sawala et al. (2016) | ADS |
| The brighter galaxies reionized the Universe | Sharma et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Bimodality of low-redshift circumgalactic O VI in non-equilibrium EAGLE zoom simulations | Oppenheimer et al. (2016) | ADS |
| The offsets between galaxies and their dark matter in Λ cold dark matter | Schaller et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Simulated Milky Way analogues: implications for dark matter direct searches | Bozorgnia et al. (2016) | ADS |
| The link between the assembly of the inner dark matter halo and the angular momentum evolution of galaxies in the EAGLE simulation | Zavala et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Galaxies in the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation and in the Durham and Munich semi-analytical models | Guo et al. (2016) | ADS |
| The low abundance and insignificance of dark discs in simulated Milky Way galaxies | Schaller et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Alignments between galaxies, satellite systems and haloes | Shao et al (2016) | ADS |
| The origin of compact galaxies with anomalously high black hole masses | Barber et al. (2016) | ADS |
| On the connection between the metal-enriched intergalactic medium and galaxies: an O VI-galaxy cross-correlation study at z < 1 | Finn et al. (2016) | ADS |
| The Fundamental Plane of star formation in galaxies revealed by the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulations | Lagos et al. (2016a) | ADS |
| The EAGLE simulations: atomic hydrogen associated with galaxies | Crain et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Supermassive black holes in the EAGLE Universe. Revealing the observables of their growth | Rosas-Guevara et al. (2016) | ADS |
| The origin of the $\alpha$-enhancement of massive galaxies | Segers et al. (2016) | ADS |
| The effect of baryons on redshift space distortions and cosmic density and velocity fields in the EAGLE simulation | Hellwing et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Music from the heavens - Gravitational waves from supermassive black hole mergers in the EAGLE simulations | Salcido et al. (2016) | ADS |
| The low-mass end of the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation | Sales et al. (2016) | ADS |
| It's not easy being green: The evolution of galaxy colour in the EAGLE simulation | Trayford et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Size evolution of normal and compact galaxies in the EAGLE simulation | Furlong et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Subhalo abundance matching and assembly bias in the EAGLE simulation | Chaves-Montero et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Observations of metals in the $zapprox3.5$ intergalactic medium and comparison to the EAGLE simulations | Turner et al. (2016) | ADS |
| The low abundance and insignificance of dark discs in simulated Milky Way galaxies | Schaller et al. (2016) | ADS |
| The environmental dependence of HI in galaxies in the EAGLE simulations | Marasco et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Winds of change: reionization by starburst galaxies | Sharma et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Size matters: abundance matching, galaxy sizes, and the Tully-Fisher relation in EAGLE | Ferrero et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Far-infrared and dust properties of present-day galaxies in the EAGLE simulations | Camps et al. (2016) | ADS |
| The dark nemesis of galaxy formation: why hot haloes trigger black hole growth and bring star formation to an end | Bower et al. (2016) | ADS |
| How to get cool in the heat: comparing analytic models of halo gas cooling with EAGLE | Stevens et al. (2016) | ADS |
| The origin of scatter in the stellar mass - halo mass relation of central galaxies in the EAGLE simulation | Matthee et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Being WISE II: Reducing the Influence of Star Formation History on the Mass-to-Light Ratio of Quiescent Galaxies | Norris et al. (2016) | ADS |
| The origin of the enhanced metallicity of satellite galaxies | Bahe et al. (2016) | ADS |
| The properties of "dark" LCDM halos in the Local Group | Benitez-Llambay et al. (2016) | ADS |
| The oldest and most metal poor stars in the APOSTLE Local Group simulations | Starkenburg et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Barred galaxies in the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamical simulation | Algorry et al. (2016) | ADS |
| A chronicle of galaxy mass assembly in the EAGLE simulation | Qu et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Baryon effects on void statistics in the EAGLE simulation | Paillas et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Angular momentum evolution of galaxies in EAGLE | Lagos et al. (2016b) | ADS |
| Predictions for the detection of Tidal Streams with Gaia using Great Circle Methods | Mateu et al. (2016) | ADS |
| The low abundance and insignificance of dark discs in simulated Milky Way galaxies | Schaller et al. (2016) | ADS |
| What to expect from dynamical modelling of galactic haloes | Wang et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Missing dark matter in dwarf galaxies? | Oman et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Shaken and Stirred: The Milky Way's Dark Substructures | Sawala et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Knowing the unknowns: uncertainties in simple estimators of dynamical masses | Campbell et al. (2016) | ADS |
| The Mass-Discrepancy Acceleration Relation: a Natural Outcome of Galaxy Formation in CDM halos | Ludlow et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Properties of Local Group galaxies in hydrodynamical simulations of sterile neutrino dark matter cosmologies | Lovell et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Tidal features of classical Milky Way satellites in a ΛCDM universe | Wang et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Origins of carbon enhanced metal poor stars | Sharma et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Small-scale galaxy clustering in the EAGLE simulation | Artale et al. (2016) | ADS |
Public database papers
The following are papers written by the wider astronomy community (occasionally including EAGLE team members), using data made publicly available by the EAGLE team via the Virgo Consortium’s SQL database. This list may well be incomplete, as it’s difficult to keep track of all such publications.
| Paper | Authors | Link |
|---|---|---|
| A large difference in the progenitor masses of active and passive galaxies in the EAGLE simulation | Clauwens, Franx & Schaye (2016) | ADS |
| The baryonic Tully-Fisher relation cares about the galaxy sample | Sorce & Guo | ADS |
| An Overmassive Dark Halo around an Ultra-diffuse Galaxy in the Virgo Cluster | Beasley et al. (2016) | ADS |
| The impact of baryonic physics on the subhalo mass function and implications for gravitational lensing | Despali & Vegetti | ADS |
| Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): M_star - R_e relations of z = 0 bulges, discs and spheroids | Lange et al. (2016) | ADS |
| Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the absence of stellar mass segregation in galaxy groups and consistent predictions from GALFORM and EAGLE simulations | Kafle et al. (2016) | ADS |
| MUFASA: galaxy formation simulations with meshless hydrodynamics | Davé, Thompson & Hopkins (2016) | ADS |
| The Metal Abundances across Cosmic Time (MACT) Survey. II. Evolution of the Mass-metallicity Relation over 8 Billion Years, Using [OIII]4363AA-based Metallicities | Ly et al. (2016) | ADS |
| The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS): dynamical properties, gas and dark matter fractions of typical z ˜ 1 star-forming galaxies | Stott et al. (2016) | ADS |
| The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS): the Tully-Fisher relation at z ˜ 1 | Tiley et al. (2016) | ADS |