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The Structural Abundance Crisis of Massive Galaxies in Current Cosmological Simulations

  • Authors: Hassen M. Yesuf, Connor Bottrell, Luis C. Ho, Aaron S. G. Robotham, Sabine Bellstedt, Robin H. W. Cook, Lei Hao, Fengshan Liu

Hassen M. Yesuf et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1009 .

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Caption: Figure 5.

Structural Asymmetry function. Number densities of galaxies as a function of i-band asymmetry, A, are shown in panels for three stellar mass bins (﹩{\rm{log}}({M}_{\star }/{M}_{\odot })=10.0﹩–10.5, 10.5–11.0, 11.0–11.5) and three star formation categories (all galaxies, star-forming: ﹩{\rm{\Delta }}\mathrm{log}{\rm{SFR}}\gt -1﹩, quiescent: ﹩{\rm{\Delta }}\mathrm{log}{\rm{SFR}}\lt -1﹩). Each panel displays the logarithmic number density, ﹩{\rm{log}}(\phi (A)/{{\rm{Mpc}}}^{-3})﹩, versus asymmetry. Simulations are indicated by colored lines: TNG50 (dark green, solid), TNG100 (forest green, dotted), EAGLE (crimson, dashed), and SIMBA (dark orange, dashed–dotted). Observational data from HSC+GAMA are shown as blue circles.

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