Ruffled Feathers: Merger-driven galaxy size growth and structural transformation in EAGLE

arXiv:2608.05835 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-08-06 · Read on arXiv

Kai Wang, Carlton Baugh, Sownak Bose, Shaun Cole, Carlos S. Frenk, Cedric Lacey, Shengdong Lu, Peder Norberg, Isabel Santos-Santos, Francesco Shankar, Tom Theuns, Tao Wang

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-08-06

Comments: 14 pages, 7 + 7 figures, main results: Figs. 1, 4 and 5

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

Terminology

• Aperture — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Systematic Bias — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Information Gain — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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