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• Yang, H., Liao, S., Fattahi, A., Frenk, C. S., Gao, L., Guo, Q., Shao, S., Wang, L., Wright, R. J., & Zeng, G. (2024). Apostle–Auriga: Effects of stellar feedback subgrid models on the evolution of angular momentum in disc galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 535(2), 1394-1405. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2411
• Brown, S. T., Fattahi, A., McCarthy, I. G., Font, A. S., Oman, K. A., & Riley, A. H. (2024). ARTEMIS emulator: exploring the effect of cosmology and galaxy formation physics on Milky Way-mass haloes and their satellites. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532(2), 1223-1240. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1378
• McLeod, A. F., Fattahi, A., Belfiore, F., Rowland, L. E., Cresci, G., Hunt, L., Krumholz, M., Kumari, N., Marasco, A., & Venturi, G. (2024). Pre-supernova stellar feedback in nearby starburst dwarf galaxies. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 685, Article A46. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202348029
• Santos-Santos, I., Bozorgnia, N., Fattahi, A., & Navarro, J. F. (2024). Are there any extragalactic high speed dark matter particles in the Solar neighborhood?. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2024(03), Article 046. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2024/03/046
• Pakmor, R., Bieri, R., van de Voort, F., Werhahn, M., Fattahi, A., Guillet, T., Pfrommer, C., Springel, V., & Talbot, R. Y. (2024). Magnetic field amplification in cosmological zoom simulations from dwarf galaxies to galaxy groups. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 528(2), 2308-2325. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae112
• Carrillo, A., Deason, A. J., Fattahi, A., Callingham, T. M., & Grand, R. J. J. (2024). Can we really pick and choose? Benchmarking various selections of Gaia Enceladus/Sausage stars in observations with simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(2), 2165–2184. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3274
• Orkney, M. D. A., Laporte, C. F. P., Grand, R. J. J., Gómez, F. A., van de Voort, F., Fattahi, A., Marinacci, F., Pakmor, R., Fragkoudi, F., & Springel, V. (2023). Exploring the diversity and similarity of radially anisotropic Milky Way-like stellar haloes: implications for disrupted dwarf galaxy searches. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 525(1), 683-705. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad2361
• Blanchette, K., Piccirillo, E., Bozorgnia, N., Strigari, L. E., Fattahi, A., Frenk, C. S., Navarro, J. F., & Sawala, T. (2023). Velocity-dependent J-factors for Milky Way dwarf spheroidal analogues in cosmological simulations. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2023(03), Article 021. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2023/03/021
• Belokurov, V., Vasiliev, E., Deason, A. J., Koposov, S. E., Fattahi, A., Dillamore, A. M., Davies, E. Y., & Grand, R. J. (2023). Energy wrinkles and phase-space folds of the last major merger. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518(4), 6200-6215. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3436
• Deason, A. J., Koposov, S. E., Fattahi, A., & Grand, R. J. (2023). Unravelling the mass spectrum of destroyed dwarf galaxies with the metallicity distribution function. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 520(4), 6091-6103. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad535
• Evans, T. A., Fattahi, A., Deason, A. J., & Frenk, C. S. (2022). Observing EAGLE galaxies with JWST: predictions for Milky Way progenitors and their building blocks. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 516(3), 3861-3877. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2410
• Sales, L. V., Wetzel, A., & Fattahi, A. (2022). Baryonic solutions and challenges for cosmological models of dwarf galaxies. Nature Astronomy, 6(8), 897-910. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-022-01689-w
• Borukhovetskaya, A., Navarro, J. F., Errani, R., & Fattahi, A. (2022). Galactic tides and the Crater II dwarf spheroidal: a challenge to LCDM?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512(4), 5247-5257. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac653
• Borukhovetskaya, A., Errani, R., Navarro, J. F., Fattahi, A., & Santos-Santos, I. (2022). The tidal evolution of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal and its globular clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 509(4), 5330-5339. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2912
• Santos-Santos, I. M., Fattahi, A., Sales, L. V., & Navarro, J. F. (2021). Magellanic satellites in ΛCDM cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of the Local Group. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 504(3), 4551-4567. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1020
• Board, E., Bozorgnia, N., Strigari, L. E., Grand, R. J., Fattahi, A., Frenk, C. S., Marinacci, F., Navarro, J. F., & Oman, K. A. (2021). Velocity-dependent J-factors for annihilation radiation from cosmological simulations. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2021(04), Article 070. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2021/04/070
• Thomas, G. F., Martin, N. F., Fattahi, A., Ibata, R. A., Helly, J., McConnachie, A. W., Frenk, C., Gómez, F. A., Grand, R. J., Gwyn, S., Mackey, D., Marinacci, F., & Pakmor, R. (2021). Observing the Stellar Halo of Andromeda in Cosmological Simulations: The AURIGA2PANDAS Pipeline. Astrophysical Journal, 910(2), Article 92. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abdfd2
• Deason, A. J., Erkal, D., Belokurov, V., Fattahi, A., Gómez, F. A., Grand, R. J., Pakmor, R., Xue, X.-X., Liu, C., Yang, C., Zhang, L., & Zhao, G. (2021). The mass of the Milky Way out to 100 kpc using halo stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 501(4), 5964-5972. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3984
• Deason, A. J., Oman, K. A., Fattahi, A., Schaller, M., Jauzac, M., Zhang, Y., Montes, M., Bahé, Y. M., Dalla Vecchia, C., Kay, S. T., & Evans, T. A. (2021). Stellar splashback: the edge of the intracluster light. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 500(3), 4181-4192. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3590
• Lovell, M., Hellwing, W., Ludlow, A., Zavala, J., Robertson, A., Fattahi, A., Frenk, C., & Hardwick, J. (2020). Local group star formation in warm and self-interacting dark matter cosmologies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 498(1), 702-717. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2525
• Evans, T. A., Fattahi, A., Deason, A. J., & Frenk, C. S. (2020). How Unusual is the Milky Way’s Assembly History?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 497(4), 4311-4321. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2202
• Fattahi, A., Deason, A. J., Frenk, C. S., Simpson, C. M., Gómez, F. A., Grand, R. J., Monachesi, A., Marinacci, F., & Pakmor, R. (2020). A tale of two populations: surviving and destroyed dwarf galaxies and the build-up of the Milky Way’s stellar halo. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 497(4), 4459-4471. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2221
• Pakmor, R., Marinacci, F., Gómez, F. A., Fragkoudi, F., Fattahi, A., Deason, A. J., Belokurov, V., Kawata, D., & Grand, R. J. (2020). The dual origin of the Galactic thick disc and halo from the gas-rich Gaia-Enceladus-Sausage merger. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 497(2), 1603-1618. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2057
• Deason, A. J., Fattahi, A., Frenk, C. S., Grand, R. J., Oman, K. A., Garrison-Kimmel, S., Simpson, C. M., & Navarro, J. F. (2020). The Edge of the Galaxy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 496(3), 3929-3942. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1711
• Bozorgnia, N., Fattahi, A., Frenk, C., Cheek, A., Cerdeño, D., Gómez, F., Grand, R., & Marinacci, F. (2020). The dark matter component of the Gaia radially anisotropic substructure. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2020(7), Article 036. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2020/07/036
• Santos-Santos, I. M., Navarro, J. F., Robertson, A., Benítez-Llambay, A., Oman, K. A., Lovell, M. R., Frenk, C. S., Ludlow, A. D., Fattahi, A., & Ritz, A. (2020). Baryonic clues to the puzzling diversity of dwarf galaxy rotation curves. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495(1), 58-77. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1072
• Cautun, M., Benítez-Llambay, A., Deason, A. J., Frenk, C. S., Fattahi, A., Gómez, F. A., Grand, R. J., Oman, K. A., Navarro, J. F., & Simpson, C. M. (2020). The Milky Way total mass profile as inferred from Gaia DR2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 494(3), 4291-4313. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1017
• Grand, R. J., Evans, N. W., Deason, A. J., Smith, M. C., Fattahi, A., Sanders, J. L., & Belokurov, V. (2020). The biggest Splash. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 494(3), 3880-3898. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa876
• Fattahi, A., Navarro, J. F., & Frenk, C. S. (2020). The missing dwarf galaxies of the Local Group. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 493(2), 2596-2605. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa375
• Richings, J., Frenk, C., Jenkins, A., Robertson, A., Fattahi, A., Grand, R. J., Navarro, J., Pakmor, R., Gomez, F. A., Marinacci, F., & Oman, K. (2020). Subhalo destruction in the Apostle and Auriga simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(4), 5780-5793. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3448
• Lane, J. M., Navarro, J. F., Fattahi, A., Oman, K. A., & Bovy, J. (2020). The Ophiuchus stream progenitor: a new type of globular cluster and its possible Sagittarius connection. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(3), 4164-4174. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa095
• Genina, A., Frenk, C. S., Benítez-Llambay, A., Cole, S., Navarro, J. F., Oman, K. A., & Fattahi, A. (2019). The distinct stellar metallicity populations of simulated Local Group dwarfs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 488(2), 2312-2331. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1852
• Riley, A. H., Fattahi, A., Pace, A. B., Strigari, L. E., Frenk, C. S., Gómez, F. A., Grand, R. J., Marinacci, F., Navarro, J. F., Pakmor, R., Simpson, C. M., & White, S. D. (2019). The velocity anisotropy of the Milky Way satellite system. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486(2), 2679-2694. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz973
• Bozorgnia, N., Fattahi, A., Cerdeño, D. G., Frenk, C. S., Gómez, F. A., Grand, R. J., Marinacci, F., & Pakmor, R. (2019). On the correlation between the local dark matter and stellar velocities. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2019(06), Article 045. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2019/06/045
• Deason, A. J., Fattahi, A., Belokurov, V., Evans, N. W., Grand, R. J., Marinacci, F., & Pakmor, R. (2019). The local high-velocity tail and the Galactic escape speed. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485(3), 3514-3526. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz623
• Fattahi, A., Belokurov, V., Deason, A. J., Frenk, C. S., Gómez, F. A., Grand, R. J., Marinacci, F., Pakmor, R., & Springel, V. (2019). The origin of galactic metal-rich stellar halo components with highly eccentric orbits. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(4), 4471-4483. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz159
• Digby, R., Navarro, J. F., Fattahi, A., Simpson, C. M., Oman, K., Gomez, F. A., Frenk, C. S., Grand, R. J., & Pakmor, R. (2019). The star formation histories of dwarf galaxies in Local Group cosmological simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485(4), 5423-5437. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz745
• Genina, A., Benítez-Llambay, A., Frenk, C. S., Cole, S., Fattahi, A., Navarro, J. F., Oman, K. A., Sawala, T., & Theuns, T. (2017). The core–cusp problem: a matter of perspective. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(1), 1398-1411. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2855
• Fattahi, A., Navarro, J. F., Starkenburg, E., Barber, C. R., & McConnachie, A. W. (2013). Galaxy pairs in the Local Group. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 431(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slt011