Jellyfish galaxies with the IllustrisTNG simulations - citizen-science results towards large distances, low-mass hosts, and high redshifts

Elad Zinger, Gandhali D. Joshi,Annalisa Pillepich, Eric Rohr,Dylan Nelson

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY(2024)

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We present the 'Cosmological Jellyfish' project - a citizen-science classification program to identify jellyfish (JF) galaxies within the IllustrisTNG cosmological simulations. JF are satellite galaxies that exhibit long trailing gas features -'tails' - extending from their stellar body. Their distinctive morphology arises due to ram-pressure stripping (RPS) as they move through the background gaseous medium. Using the TNG50 and TNG100 simulations, we construct a sample of similar to 80 000 satellite galaxies spanning an unprecedented range of stellar masses, 10(8.3) -10(12. 3) M-circle dot, and host masses, M-200,M-c = 10(10.4)-10(14.6) M-circle dot back to z = 2. Based on this sample, similar to 90 000 galaxy images were presented to volunteers in the citizen-science Zooniverse platform, who were asked to determine whether the galaxy image resembles a JF. Based on volunteer votes, each galaxy received a score determining if it is a JF or not. This paper describes the project, the inspected satellite sample, the methodology, and the classification process that resulted in a data set of 5307 visually identified JF galaxies. We find that JF is common in nearly all group- and cluster-sized systems, with the JF fraction increasing with host mass and decreasing with satellite stellar mass. We highlight JF galaxies in three relatively unexplored regimes: low-mass hosts of M-200,M-c similar to 10(11.5)-10(13) M-circle dot, radial positions within hosts exceeding the virial radius R-200,R- c, and at high redshift up to z = 2. The full data set of our JF scores is publicly available and can be used to select and study JF galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulations.
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galaxies: evolution,galaxies: formation,galaxies: haloes
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