My publications
33 papers, grouped by my role and listed in reverse chronological order within each group.
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First-author papers 7
Studies I designed and led.
- 2026 1.
And Then There WEre Baryons (ATWEB): The Baryon Budget of the Universe in Halos and the IGM over 13 Billion Years of Cosmic Time
A&A Submitted
M. Ayromlou, M. Voit, T. H. Reiprich, C. Porciani, D. Eckert
- 2024 2.
An Atlas of the Gas Motions in the TNG-Cluster Simulation: from Cluster Cores to the Outskirts
A&A
M. Ayromlou, D. Nelson, A. Pillepich, E. Rohr, N. Truong, Y. Li, A. Simionescu, K. Lehle, W. Lee
- 2023 3.
Feedback reshapes the baryon distribution within haloes, in halo outskirts, and beyond: the closure radius from dwarfs to massive clusters
MNRAS
M. Ayromlou, D. Nelson, A. Pillepich
- 2023 4.
The Physical Origin of Galactic Conformity: From Theory to Observation
MNRAS
M. Ayromlou, G. Kauffmann, A. Anand, S. D. M. White
Catalogues of backsplash and fly-by galaxies are publicly available at this link
- 2021 5.
Galaxy formation with L-GALAXIES: Modelling the environmental dependency of galaxy evolution and comparing with observations
MNRAS
M. Ayromlou, G. Kauffmann, R. M. Yates, D. Nelson, S. D. M. White
The full model output and model description are publicly available at this link
- 2021 6.
Comparing galaxy formation in the L-GALAXIES semi-analytical model and the IllustrisTNG simulations
MNRAS
M. Ayromlou, D. Nelson, R. M. Yates, G. Kauffmann, M. Renneby, S. D. M. White
The full catalogues of L-Galaxies run on the IllustrisTNG simulations are publicly available at this link
- 2019 7.
A New Method to Quantify Environment and Model Ram-Pressure Stripping in N-Body Simulations
MNRAS
M. Ayromlou, D. Nelson, R. M. Yates, G. Kauffmann, S. D. M. White
The full catalogue of local background environment properties of galaxies is publicly available at this link
Papers led by my students 4
Work led by students I supervise.
- 2026 8.
Galaxies in the first two billion years: Earlier formation and quenching with surface-density modulated star formation and feedback
MNRAS Submitted
A. Vani, M. Ayromlou, G. Kauffmann, V. Springel
- 2026 9.
Environmental Quenching of High-Redshift Galaxies: Interpreting JWST Observations with Simulations
A&A
A. Döven, M. Ayromlou, C. Porciani
- 2025 10.
The abundance and origin of cool gas in galaxy clusters in the TNG-Cluster simulation
A&A
M. Staffehl, D. Nelson, M. Ayromlou, E. Rohr, A. Pillepich
- 2025 11.
Probing galaxy evolution from z = 0 to z = 10 through galaxy scaling relations in three L-Galaxies flavours
MNRAS
A. Vani, M. Ayromlou, G. Kauffmann, V. Springel
Second- and third-author papers 5
Projects where I contributed methods, analysis, or code.
- 2026 12.
Mergers may not be the main channel for galaxy stellar mass growth at redshift z>5: Predictions from cosmological hierarchical models and simulations
ApJ Submitted
H. Fu, M. Ayromlou, F. Shankar, L. Hernquist, A. Lapi, D. Roberts and 10 others
- 2024 13.
Unveiling the (in)consistencies among the galaxy stellar mass function, star formation histories, satellite abundances and intracluster light from a semi-empirical perspective
MNRAS
H. Fu, F. Shankar, M. Ayromlou, I. Koutsouridou, A. Cattaneo, C. Bertemes and 12 others
- 2024 14.
Introducing the TNG-Cluster Simulation: overview and physical properties of the gaseous intracluster medium
A&A
D. Nelson, A. Pillepich, M. Ayromlou, W. Lee, K. Lehle, E. Rohr, N. Truong
- 2022 15.
Testing the key role of the stellar mass-halo mass relation in galaxy merger rates and morphologies via DECODE, a novel Discrete statistical sEmi-empiriCal mODEl
MNRAS
H. Fu, F. Shankar, M. Ayromlou, M. Dickson, I. Koutsouridou, Y. Rosas-Guevara and 16 others
- 2018 16.
Excursion set approach: Stratonovich approximation and Cholesky decomposition
MNRAS
F. Nikakhtar, M. Ayromlou, S. Baghram, S. Rahvar, M. R. R. Tabar, R. K. Sheth
Codes and halo mass function data for different window functions and initial conditions are available on request
Co-author papers 15
Collaborations across TNG-Cluster, L-Galaxies and observational teams.
- 2026 17.
The Deep Learning Halo Definer: A Multimodal Framework for Halo Mass and Gas Fraction Inference on Galaxy Groups and Clusters
OJAp Submitted
C. Ogle, K. N. Poncelet Adams, B. D. Oppenheimer, N. Gluck, M. Ho, D. Nagai, J. N. Burchett, M. Ayromlou
- 2026 18.
How galaxies acquire their stellar mass at high redshift: High star formation efficiencies and the relative roles of dust and initial mass function
A&A
H. Fu, F. Shankar, F. Fontanot, A. Lapi, F. Yuan, M. Ayromlou and 6 others
- 2026 19.
MUSE-ALMA Haloes XIII: Kinematics and Stellar Properties of Tidal Features associated with Gas-rich Galaxies
MNRAS
A. Karki, V. P. Kulkarni, S. Weng, C. Péroux, M. Halley, R. Augustin, M. Ayromlou, M. Hayes, G. G. Kacprzak
- 2026 20.
ERGO-ML: A continuous organization of the X-ray galaxy cluster population in TNG-Cluster with contrastive learning
MNRAS
U. Chadayammuri, L. Eisert, A. Pillepich, K. Lehle, M. Ayromlou, D. Nelson
- 2025 21.
The role of black hole feedback on galaxy star formation and the degeneracy with halo quenching
A&A
H. Fu, F. Shankar, F. Yuan, D. Roberts, L. Boco, …, M. Ayromlou and 6 others
- 2025 22.
Jellyfish galaxies with the IllustrisTNG simulations — Supermassive black hole activity in dense environments with ram-pressure stripped satellites
MNRAS
S. Kurinchi-Vendhan, E. Rohr, A. Pillepich, E. Zinger, M. Ayromlou, G. D. Joshi
- 2025 23.
Extreme AGN feedback in the fossil galaxy group SDSSTG 4436
A&A
D. Eckert, F. Gastaldello, L. Lovisari, S. McGee, T. Pasini, …, M. Ayromlou and 17 others
- 2025 24.
Cross-correlations between X-ray clusters and the general galaxy population
A&A
J. Comparat, J. Macias-Perez, C. Combet, A. Merloni, D. Eckert, M. Ayromlou, K. Nandra, R. Seppi
- 2025 25.
Shedding light on the star formation rate-halo accretion rate connection and halo quenching mechanism via DECODE, the Discrete statistical sEmi-empiriCal mODEl
A&A
H. Fu, L. Boco, F. Shankar, A. Lapi, M. Ayromlou, D. Roberts and 6 others
- 2025 26.
The cooler past of the intracluster medium in TNG-Cluster
MNRAS
E. Rohr, A. Pillepich, D. Nelson, M. Ayromlou, C. Péroux, E. Zinger
- 2024 27.
The hot circumgalactic media of thousands of massive cluster satellites with the TNG-Cluster simulation, and how to detect them
A&A
E. Rohr, A. Pillepich, D. Nelson, M. Ayromlou, E. Zinger
- 2024 28.
X-ray inferred kinematics of the core ICM in Perseus-like clusters: insights from the TNG-Cluster simulation
A&A
N. Truong, A. Pillepich, D. Nelson, I. Zhuravleva, W. Lee, M. Ayromlou, K. Lehle
- 2023 29.
MUSE-ALMA Haloes IX: Morphologies and Stellar Properties of Gas-rich Galaxies
MNRAS
A. Karki, V. P. Kulkarni, S. Weng, C. Péroux, R. Augustin, …, M. Ayromlou and 12 others
- 2023 30.
A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) XV. The Hα luminosity function of the Virgo cluster
A&A
A. Boselli, M. Fossati, P. Côté, J. C. Cuillandre, L. Ferrarese, …, M. Ayromlou and 14 others
- 2023 31.
Jellyfish galaxies with the IllustrisTNG simulations — When, where, and for how long does ram pressure stripping of cold gas occur?
MNRAS
E. Rohr, A. Pillepich, D. Nelson, E. Zinger, G. Joshi, M. Ayromlou
White papers 2
Mission and instrument science cases.
- 2023 32.
Exploring chemical enrichment of the intracluster medium with the Line Emission Mapper
LEM IGM Science Paper
F. Mernier and the LEM Team (incl. M. Ayromlou)
- 2022 33.
Line Emission Mapper (LEM): Probing the physics of cosmic ecosystems
LEM White Paper
R. Kraft and the LEM Team (incl. M. Ayromlou)
Data, code and more
Several of these papers come with public catalogues, and PROFI and CENSAT are open source. For anything else behind a paper, get in touch.