Quenching massive galaxies across cosmic time with the semi-analytic model SHARK v2.0
We introduce version 2.0 of the SHARK semi-analytic model of galaxy formation after many improvements to the physics included. The most significant being: (i) a model describing the exchange of angular momentum (AM) between the interstellar medium and stars; (ii) a new active galactic nuclei feedbac...
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Zusammenfassung: | We introduce version 2.0 of the SHARK semi-analytic model of galaxy formation
after many improvements to the physics included. The most significant being:
(i) a model describing the exchange of angular momentum (AM) between the
interstellar medium and stars; (ii) a new active galactic nuclei feedback model
which has two modes, a wind and a jet mode, with the jet mode tied to the jet
energy production; (iii) a model tracking the development of black hole (BH)
spins; (iv) more sophisticated modelling of environmental effects on satellite
galaxies; and (v) automatic parameter exploration using Particle Swarm
Optimisation. We focus on two timely research topics: the structural properties
of galaxies and the quenching of massive galaxies. For the former, SHARK v2.0
is capable of producing a more realistic stellar size-mass relation with a
plateau marking the transition from disk- to bulge-dominated galaxies, and
scaling relations between specific AM and mass that agree well with
observations. For the quenching of massive galaxies, SHARK v2.0 produces
massive galaxies that are more quenched than the previous version, reproducing
well the observed relations between star formation rate (SFR) and stellar mass,
and specific SFR and BH mass at $z=0$. SHARK v2.0 produces a number density of
massive-quiescent galaxies >1dex higher than the previous version, in good
agreement with JWST observations at $z\le 5$; predicts a stellar mass function
of passive galaxies in reasonably good agreement with observations at
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2309.02310 |