In TNG-50, 80% of Milky Way-mass galaxies align their present-day angular momentum with the orbital angular momentum of their most massive merger, and 81% of their stellar halos rotate prograde relative to the disk.
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Analysis of 3 million HSC galaxies finds that galaxy bulge-to-total ratio depends on environment at fixed stellar mass, with the strength and scale of this dependence varying by redshift and galaxy mass.
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Galaxy mergers and disk angular momentum evolution: stellar halos as a critical test
In TNG-50, 80% of Milky Way-mass galaxies align their present-day angular momentum with the orbital angular momentum of their most massive merger, and 81% of their stellar halos rotate prograde relative to the disk.
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Environmental Sculpting of Galaxy Structure at Fixed Stellar Mass: A Multi-Scale Analysis Across Cosmic Time using 3 Million HSC Galaxies
Analysis of 3 million HSC galaxies finds that galaxy bulge-to-total ratio depends on environment at fixed stellar mass, with the strength and scale of this dependence varying by redshift and galaxy mass.