Visualisations
The following visualizations and movies are free to use and available via the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license. In short, if you use these, please (1) acknowledge “D. Horta”, and (2) if you re-distribute any of this material, you must carry along this license.
Assembly history of a Milky Way-mass galaxy
The two movies below were created using the FIRE-2 cosmological simulations (m12m), and show the distribution of star particles belonging to different "building-blocks" (i.e., accreted galaxies) consumed by a Milky Way-mass galaxy as a function of time. The GIFs show the merging process in spatial coordinates (X-Z) and in the energy-angular momentum diagram. Each merger is labelled with a different colour.
Spatial Coordinates (X-Z)
Energy-Angular Momentum Diagram