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Publications

29 papers, grouped by my role and listed in reverse chronological order within each group.

First-author papers (6) Papers led by my students (3) Second- and third-author papers (4) Co-author papers (14) White papers (2)

First-author papers 6

Studies I designed and led.

  1. 1. An Atlas of the Gas Motions in the TNG-Cluster Simulation: from Cluster Cores to the Outskirts

    A&A, 2024

    M. Ayromlou, D. Nelson, A. Pillepich, E. Rohr, N. Truong, Y. Li, A. Simionescu, K. Lehle, W. Lee

  2. 2. Feedback reshapes the baryon distribution within haloes, in halo outskirts, and beyond: the closure radius from dwarfs to massive clusters

    MNRAS, 2023

    M. Ayromlou, D. Nelson, A. Pillepich

  3. 3. The Physical Origin of Galactic Conformity: From Theory to Observation

    MNRAS, 2023

    M. Ayromlou, G. Kauffmann, A. Anand, S. D. M. White

    Catalogues of backsplash and fly-by galaxies are publicly available at this link

  4. 4. Galaxy formation with L-GALAXIES: Modelling the environmental dependency of galaxy evolution and comparing with observations

    MNRAS, 2021

    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

  5. 5. Comparing galaxy formation in the L-GALAXIES semi-analytical model and the IllustrisTNG simulations

    MNRAS, 2021

    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

  6. 6. A New Method to Quantify Environment and Model Ram-Pressure Stripping in N-Body Simulations

    MNRAS, 2019

    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 3

Work led by students I supervise.

  1. 7. Environmental Quenching of High-Redshift Galaxies: Interpreting JWST Observations with Simulations

    Submitted to A&A, 2026

    A. Döven, M. Ayromlou, C. Porciani

  2. 8. The abundance and origin of cool gas in galaxy clusters in the TNG-Cluster simulation

    A&A, 2025

    M. Staffehl, D. Nelson, M. Ayromlou, E. Rohr, A. Pillepich

  3. 9. Probing galaxy evolution from z = 0 to z = 10 through galaxy scaling relations in three L-Galaxies flavours

    MNRAS, 2025

    A. Vani, M. Ayromlou, G. Kauffmann, V. Springel

Second- and third-author papers 4

Projects where I contributed methods, analysis, or code.

  1. 10. Unveiling the (in)consistencies among the galaxy stellar mass function, star formation histories, satellite abundances and intracluster light from a semi-empirical perspective

    MNRAS, 2024

    H. Fu, F. Shankar, M. Ayromlou, I. Koutsouridou, A. Cattaneo, C. Bertemes, S. Bellstedt, I. Martín-Navarro, J. Leja, V. Allevato, M. Bernardi, L. Boco, P. Dimauro, C. Gruppioni, A. Lapi, N. Menci, A. Puglisi, A. V. Alonso-Tetilla

  2. 11. Introducing the TNG-Cluster Simulation: overview and physical properties of the gaseous intracluster medium

    A&A, 2024

    D. Nelson, A. Pillepich, M. Ayromlou, W. Lee, K. Lehle, E. Rohr, N. Truong

  3. 12. 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, 2022

    H. Fu, F. Shankar, M. Ayromlou, M. Dickson, I. Koutsouridou, Y. Rosas-Guevara, C. Marsden, K. Brocklebank, M. Bernardi, N. Shiamtanis, J. Williams, L. Zanisi, V. Allevato, L. Boco, S. Bonoli, A. Cattaneo, P. Dimauro, F. Jiang, A. Lapi, N. Menci, S. Petropoulou, C. Villforth

  4. 13. Excursion set approach: Stratonovich approximation and Cholesky decomposition

    MNRAS, 2018

    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 14

Collaborations across TNG-Cluster, L-Galaxies and observational teams.

  1. 14. 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, 2026

    H. Fu et al.

  2. 15. MUSE-ALMA Haloes XIII: Kinematics and Stellar Properties of Tidal Features associated with Gas-rich Galaxies

    MNRAS, 2026

    A. Karki et al.

  3. 16. ERGO-ML: A continuous organization of the X-ray galaxy cluster population in TNG-Cluster with contrastive learning

    MNRAS, 2026

    U. Chadayammuri, L. Eisert, A. Pillepich, K. Lehle, M. Ayromlou, D. Nelson

  4. 17. The role of black hole feedback on galaxy star formation and the degeneracy with halo quenching

    A&A, 2025

    H. Fu et al.

  5. 18. Jellyfish galaxies with the IllustrisTNG simulations — Supermassive black hole activity in dense environments with ram-pressure stripped satellites

    MNRAS, 2025

    S. Kurinchi-Vendhan, E. Rohr, A. Pillepich, E. Zinger, M. Ayromlou, G. D. Joshi

  6. 19. Extreme AGN feedback in the fossil galaxy group SDSSTG 4436

    A&A, 2025

    D. Eckert, F. Gastaldello, L. Lovisari, S. McGee, T. Pasini, M. Brienza, K. Kolokythas, E. O'Sullivan, A. Simionescu, M. Sun, M. Ayromlou, M. Bourne, Y. Chen, W. Cui, S. Ettori, A. Finoguenov, G. Gozaliasl, R. Kale, F. Mernier, B. Oppenheimer, G. Schellenberger, R. Seppi, E. Tempel

  7. 20. Cross-correlations between X-ray clusters and the general galaxy population

    A&A, 2025

    J. Comparat et al.

  8. 21. 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, 2025

    H. Fu, L. Boco, F. Shankar, A. Lapi, M. Ayromlou, D. Roberts, Y. Peng, A. Rodriguez-Puebla, F. Yuan, C. Cleland, S. Mei, N. Menci

  9. 22. The cooler past of the intracluster medium in TNG-Cluster

    MNRAS, 2025

    E. Rohr, A. Pillepich, D. Nelson, M. Ayromlou, C. Péroux, E. Zinger

  10. 23. The hot circumgalactic media of thousands of massive cluster satellites with the TNG-Cluster simulation, and how to detect them

    A&A, 2024

    E. Rohr, A. Pillepich, D. Nelson, M. Ayromlou, E. Zinger

  11. 24. X-ray inferred kinematics of the core ICM in Perseus-like clusters: insights from the TNG-Cluster simulation

    A&A, 2024

    N. Truong, A. Pillepich, D. Nelson, I. Zhuravleva, W. Lee, M. Ayromlou, K. Lehle

  12. 25. MUSE-ALMA Haloes IX: Morphologies and Stellar Properties of Gas-rich Galaxies

    MNRAS, 2023

    A. Karki, V. Kulkarni, S. Weng, C. Péroux, R. Augustin, M. Hayes, M. Ayromlou et al.

  13. 26. A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) XV. The Hα luminosity function of the Virgo cluster

    A&A, 2023

    A. Boselli, M. Fossati, P. Côté, J. C. Cuillandre, L. Ferrarese, S. Gwyn, P. Amram, M. Ayromlou, M. Balogh, G. Bellusci, M. Boquien, G. Gavazzi, G. Hensler, A. Longobardi, D. Nelson, A. Pillepich, J. Roediger, R. Sánchez-Janssen, M. Sun, G. Trinchieri

  14. 27. Jellyfish galaxies with the IllustrisTNG simulations — When, where, and for how long does ram pressure stripping of cold gas occur?

    MNRAS, 2023

    E. Rohr, A. Pillepich, D. Nelson, E. Zinger, G. Joshi, M. Ayromlou

White papers 2

Mission and instrument science cases.

  1. 28. Exploring chemical enrichment of the intracluster medium with the Line Emission Mapper

    LEM IGM Science Paper, 2023

    F. Mernier and the LEM Team (incl. M. Ayromlou)

  2. 29. Line Emission Mapper (LEM): Probing the physics of cosmic ecosystems

    LEM White Paper, 2022

    R. Kraft and the LEM Team (incl. M. Ayromlou)