mitigating the overcooling problem with sink-based bursty star formation in a high-z dwarf galaxy

arXiv:2607.08846 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-07-09 · Read on arXiv

Cheonsu Kang, Taysun Kimm, Daniel Han, Maxime Rey, Fred Thompson, Martin P. Rey, Harley Katz

astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-07-09

Comments: 24 pages, 23 figures, submitted to A&A

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Metallicity — 17× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Stellar Feedback — 17× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accretion Efficiency — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Dust Attenuation — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Clustering — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance Matching Technique — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Gravitational Lensing — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Initial Mass Function (IMF) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Momentum transfer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Star Formation Efficiency (SFE) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Velocity Dispersion — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• From short-lived to long-lived clouds: impact of star formation models on giant molecular cloud evolution in simulations of an NGC 300-like galaxy
• Introducing the THESAN-ZOOM project: radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of high-redshift galaxies with a multi-phase interstellar medium
• PRISM: A Non-Equilibrium, Multiphase Interstellar Medium Model for Radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations of Galaxies
• The angular momentum of baryons and dark matter halos revisited
• Stochastic star formation and the abundance of $z>10$ UV-bright galaxies
• The COLIBRE project: cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation and evolution

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