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Laura V. Sales
Researcher at University of California, Riverside
Publications - 129
Citations - 7768
Laura V. Sales is an academic researcher from University of California, Riverside. The author has contributed to research in topics: Galaxy & Dark matter. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 114 publications receiving 6526 citations. Previous affiliations of Laura V. Sales include Max Planck Society & National University of Cordoba.
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The merger rate of galaxies in the Illustris simulation: a comparison with observations and semi-empirical models
Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez,Shy Genel,Shy Genel,Mark Vogelsberger,Debora Sijacki,Annalisa Pillepich,Laura V. Sales,Laura V. Sales,Paul Torrey,Paul Torrey,Greg Snyder,Dylan Nelson,Volker Springel,Volker Springel,Chung-Pei Ma,Lars Hernquist +15 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors constructed merger trees for galaxies in the Illustris simulation by directly tracking the baryonic content of subhaloes and used them to calculate the galaxy-galaxy merger rate as a function of descendant stellar mass.
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The illustris simulation: Public data release
Dylan Nelson,Annalisa Pillepich,Shy Genel,Shy Genel,Mark Vogelsberger,Volker Springel,Volker Springel,Paul Torrey,Paul Torrey,Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez,Debora Sijacki,Gregory F. Snyder,Brendan F. Griffen,Federico Marinacci,Laura Blecha,Laura V. Sales,Dandan Xu,Lars Hernquist +17 more
TL;DR: The full public release of all data from the Illustris simulation project is presented, including the flagship Illustris-1 run, and a comprehensive, web-based API which allows programmatic access to search and data processing tasks is released.
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The stellar mass assembly of galaxies in the Illustris simulation: growth by mergers and the spatial distribution of accreted stars
Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez,Annalisa Pillepich,Laura V. Sales,Laura V. Sales,Shy Genel,Mark Vogelsberger,Qirong Zhu,Sarah Wellons,Dylan Nelson,Paul Torrey,Paul Torrey,Volker Springel,Volker Springel,Chung-Pei Ma,Lars Hernquist +14 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Illustris simulation to study the relative contributions of in situ star formation and stellar accretion to the build-up of galaxies over an unprecedentedly wide range of masses.
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The formation of massive, compact galaxies at z = 2 in the Illustris simulation
Sarah Wellons,Paul Torrey,Paul Torrey,Chung-Pei Ma,Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez,Mark Vogelsberger,Mariska Kriek,Pieter van Dokkum,Erica J. Nelson,Shy Genel,Shy Genel,Annalisa Pillepich,Volker Springel,Volker Springel,Debora Sijacki,Gregory F. Snyder,Dylan Nelson,Laura V. Sales,Lars Hernquist +18 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the formation processes and quantify the assembly histories of compact galaxies in Illustris, a suite of hydrodynamical cosmological simulations encompassing a sufficiently large volume to include rare objects, while simultaneously resolving the internal structure of galaxies.
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The origin of discs and spheroids in simulated galaxies
Laura V. Sales,Julio F. Navarro,Tom Theuns,Tom Theuns,Joop Schaye,Simon D. M. White,Carlos S. Frenk,Robert A. Crain,Claudio Dalla Vecchia +8 more
TL;DR: The major morphological features of a galaxy are thought to be determined by the assembly history and net spin of its surrounding dark halo as mentioned in this paper, which is very poorly correlated with their halo properties: discs form in haloes with high and low net spin, and mergers play a negligible role in the formation of spheroids.