Faint Lyman-Break galaxies as a crucial test for galaxy formation models (2009)
Faro, Barbara Lo, Monaco, Pierluigi, Vanzella, Eros, Fontanot, Fabio, Silva, Laura, Cristiani, Stefano
It has recently been shown that galaxy formation models within the LambdaCDM cosmology predict that, compared to the observed population, small galaxies (with stellar masses < 10^{11} M_sun) form too...
On the origin and properties of Ultrafaint Milky Way Satellites in a LCDM Universe (2009)
Maccio', Andrea V., Kang, Xi, Fontanot, Fabio, Somerville, Rachel S., Koposov, Sergey E., Monaco, Pierluigi
We study the origin and properties of satellite galaxies within Milky Way size haloes as predicted in LCDM model, making use of hydrodynamic and N-body simulations as well as of three different...
Fontanot, Fabio, De Lucia, Gabriella, Monaco, Pierluigi, Somerville, Rachel S., Santini, Paola
[abridged] It has been widely claimed that several lines of observational evidence point towards a "downsizing" (DS) of the process of galaxy formation over cosmic time. This behavior is sometimes...
Modeling multi-wavelength properties of high redshift galaxies (2009)
Monaco, Pierluigi, Fontanot, Fabio, Lo Faro, Barbara, De Lucia, Gabriella, Vanzella, Eros, Somerville, Rachel, ...
Fontanot, Fabio, Somerville, Rachel S., Silva, Laura, Monaco, Pierluigi, Skibba, Ramin
The treatment of dust attenuation is crucial in order to compare the predictions of galaxy formation models with multiwavelength observations. Most past studies have either used simple analytic...
The Correlation of Star Formation Quenching with Internal Galaxy Properties and Environment (2008)
Kimm, Taysun, Somerville, Rachel S., Yi, Sukyoung K., Salim, Samir, Fontanot, Fabio, ...
We investigate the correlation of star formation quenching with internal galaxy properties and large scale environment (halo mass) in empirical data and theoretical models. We make use of the...
How does gas cool in dark matter haloes? (2008)
Viola, M., Monaco, Pierluigi, Borgani, Stefano, Murante, Giuseppe, Tornatore, Luca
In order to study the process of cooling in dark-matter (DM) halos and assess how well simple models can represent it, we run a set of radiative SPH hydrodynamical simulations of isolated halos, with...
Reproducing the assembly of massive galaxies within the hierarchical cosmogony (2007)
Fontanot, Fabio, Monaco, Pierluigi, Silva, Laura, Grazian, Andrea
In order to gain insight into the physical mechanisms leading to the formation of stars and their assembly in galaxies, we compare the predictions of the MOdel for the Rise of GAlaxies aNd Active...
Fontanot, Fabio, Cristiani, Stefano, Monaco, Pierluigi, Nonino, Mario, Vanzella, Eros, Brandt, W. Niel, ...
Aims: In this work the luminosity function of QSOs is measured in the redshift range 3.5
The MORGANA model for the rise of galaxies and active nuclei (2007)
Monaco, Pierluigi, Fontanot, Fabio, Taffoni, Giuliano
We present the Model for the Rise of Galaxies and Active Nuclei (MORGANA), a new code for the formation and evolution of galaxies and active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Starting from the merger trees of...
Reproducing the assembly of massive galaxies within the hierarchical cosmogony (2007)
Fontanot, Fabio, Monaco, Pierluigi, Silva, Laura, Grazian, Andrea
In order to gain insight into the physical mechanisms leading to the formation of stars and their assembly in galaxies, we compare the predictions of the MOdel for the Rise of GAlaxies aNd Active...
The luminosity function of high-redshift QSOs (2006)
Fontanot, Fabio, Cristiani, Stefano, Monaco, Pierluigi, Vanzella, Eros, Nonino, Mario, Brandt, W. Niel, ...
We measure the luminosity function of QSOs in the redshift range 3.5 < z < 5.2 for the absolute magnitude interval -21 < M_{145} < -28. Suitable criteria are defined to select faint QSOs in the GOODS...
We present some results of the new MORGANA model for the rise of galaxies and active nuclei, and show that the improved physical motivation of the description of star formation and feedback allows to...
The MORGANA model for the rise of galaxies and active nuclei (2006)
Monaco, Pierluigi, Fontanot, Fabio, Taffoni, Giuliano
We present the MOdel for the Rise of GAlaxies aNd Active nuclei (MORGANA). Starting from the merger trees of dark matter halos and a model for the evolution of substructure within the halos, the...
Monaco, Pierluigi, Murante, Giuseppe, Borgani, Stefano, Fontanot, Fabio
The high end of the stellar mass function of galaxies is observed to have little evolution since z~1. This represents a stringent constraint for merger--based models, aimed at explaining the...
The effect of stellar feedback and quasar winds on the AGN population (2006)
Fontanot, Fabio, Monaco, Pierluigi, Cristiani, Stefano, Tozzi, Paolo
In order to constrain the physical processes that regulate and downsize the AGN population, the predictions of the MOdel for the Rise of GAlaxies aNd Active nuclei (MORGANA) are compared to...
Monaco, Pierluigi, Murante, Giuseppe, Borgani, Stefano, Fontanot, Fabio
The high end of the stellar mass function of galaxies is observed to have little evolution since z~1. This represents a stringent constraint for merger-based models, aimed at explaining the evolution...
The effect of stellar feedback and quasar winds on the active galactic nucleus population (2006)
Fontanot, Fabio, Monaco, Pierluigi, Cristiani, Stefano, Tozzi, Paolo
In order to constrain the physical processes that regulate and downsize the active galactic nucleus (AGN) population, the predictions of the model for the rise of galaxies and active nuclei (MORGANA)...
On the destruction of star-forming clouds (2004)
Type II supernovae (SNe), probably the most important contributors to stellar feedback in galaxy formation, explode within the very dense star-forming clouds, where the injected energy is most easily...
Recovering the Initial Condition of our Local Universe from NOG and PSCz Catalogues (2003)
Fontanot, Fabio, Monaco, Pierluigi, Borgani, Stefano
We apply the ZTRACE algorithm to the optical NOG and infra-red PSCz galaxy catalogues to reconstruct the pattern of primordial fluctuations that have generated our local Universe. We check that the...
The masses of black holes in the nuclei of spirals (2000)
Salucci, Paolo, Ratnam, Charu, Monaco, Pierluigi, Danese, Luigi
We use the innermost kinematics of spirals to investigate whether these galaxies could host the massive black hole remnants that once powered the quasi-stellar object (QSO) phenomenon. Hundreds of...
The masses of black holes in the nuclei of spirals (2000)
Salucci, Paolo, Ratnam, Charu, Monaco, Pierluigi, Danese, Luigi
We use the innermost kinematics of spirals to investigate whether these galaxies could host the massive black hole remnants that once powered the quasi-stellar object (QSO) phenomenon. Hundreds of...
Joint Cosmological Formation of QSOs and Bulge-dominated Galaxies (1999)
Monaco, Pierluigi, Salucci, Paolo, Danese, Luigi
Older and more recent pieces of observational evidence suggest a strong connection between QSOs and galaxies; in particular, the recently discovered correlation between black hole and galactic bulge...
The Cosmological Mass Function with 1D Gravity (1999)
Monaco, Pierluigi, Murante, Giuseppe
The cosmological mass function problem is analyzed in full detail in the case of 1D gravity, with analytical, semi-analytical and numerical techniques. The extended Press & Schechter theory is...
The Nearby Optical Galaxy Sample: The Local Galaxy Luminosity Function (1999)
Marinoni, Christian, Monaco, Pierluigi, Giuricin, Giuliano, Costantini, Barbara
Mass function of dormant black holes and the evolution of active galactic nuclei (1999)
Salucci, Paolo, Szuszkiewicz, Ewa, Monaco, Pierluigi, Danese, Luigi
We derive the mass function of the relic black holes and compared with that of the Massive Dark Objects in galaxies. Under the assumption that accretion onto massive BH's powers the Active Galactic...
The Mass Of Black Holes in the Nuclei Of Spirals (1998)
Salucci, Paolo, Ratnam, Charu, Monaco, Pierluigi, Danese, Luigi
We use rotation curve kinematics of 1000 spiral galaxies to investigate if these galaxies could host BH (Black Hole) remnants that once powered the QSO phenomenon. The rotation curves of both early...
Mass function of dormant black holes and the evolution of the Active Galactic Nuclei (1998)
Salucci, Paolo, Szuszkiewicz, Ewa, Monaco, Pierluigi, Danese, Luigi
We derive the mass function of the relic black holes and compared with that of the Massive Dark Objects in galaxies. Under the assumption that accretion onto massive BH's powers the Active Galactic...
Dynamics in the cosmological mass function (or, why does the Press & Schechter work?) (1998)
The Press & Schechter ``numerical recipe'' is briefly reviewed, together with the recently proposed dynamical mass function theory, in which the mass function is constructed by using the powerful...
Dormant black holes tell a story about the evolution of active galactic nuclei (1998)
Salucci, Paolo, Szuszkiewicz, Ewa, Monaco, Pierluigi, Danese, Luigi
In our recent paper (Salucci et al. 1998) we have investigated the mass distribution function of massive dark objects in galaxies, exploiting the available optical and radio observations. Under the...
The Cosmological Mass Function (1997)
This thesis aims to review the cosmological mass function problem, both from the theoretical and the observational point of view, and to present a new mass function theory, based on realistic...
A Lagrangian Dynamical Theory for the Mass Function of Cosmic Structures: I Dynamics (1996)
A new theory for determining the mass function of cosmic structures is presented. It relies on a realistic treatment of collapse dynamics. Gravitational collapse is analyzed in the Lagrangian...
A Lagrangian Dynamical Theory for the Mass Function of Cosmic Structures: II Statistics (1996)
The statistical tools needed to obtain a mass function from realistic collapse time estimates are presented. Collapse dynamics has been dealt with in paper I of this series by means of the powerful...
THE LOCAL GALAXY DENSITY AND THE BULGE-TO-DISK RATIO OF DISK GALAXIES (1995)
Giuricin, Giuliano, Tektunali, Fusun Limboz, Monaco, Pierluigi, Mardirossian, Fabio, Mezzetti, Marino
Relying on samples of disk galaxies for which a detailed photometric bulge/disk decomposition has been provided in the literature, we examine the dependence of the bulge-to-disk luminosity ratio...
The local galaxy density and the bulge-to-disk ratio of disk galaxies (1995)
Giuricin, Giuliano, Tektunali, Fusun Limboz, Monaco, Pierluigi, Mardirossian, Fabio, Mezzetti, Marino
The Mass Function of Cosmic Structures with Non-Spherical Collapse (1994)
Non-spherical dynamical approximations and models for the gravitational collapse are used to extend the well-known Press \& Schechter (PS) approach, in order to determine analytical expressions for...
Environmental Effects on Local Active Galactic Nuclei (1994)
Monaco, Pierluigi, Giuricin, Giuliano, Mardirossian, Fabio, Mezzetti, Marino
Using an extensive sample of nearby galaxies (the Nearby Galaxies Catalog, by Tully), we investigate the environment of the galaxies hosting low-luminosity AGNs (Seyferts and LINERs). We define the...
Observational Support for the Gurzadyan-Kocharyan Relation in Clusters of Galaxies (1994)
We show that observational data for four Abell clusters of galaxies support the Gur\-za\-dyan-Kocharyan relation between the Hausdorff dimension and the dynamical properties of a galaxy system. The...