COLIBRE Publications

This page contains a list of publications submitted to arXiv which make use of the COLIBRE simulations. The analysis papers are listed in chronological order based on when they were uploaded to arXiv. Please let us know if we have missed your paper!

Reference papers

  1. The COLIBRE project: cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation and evolution
    Joop Schaye, Evgenii Chaikin, Matthieu Schaller, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Filip Huško, Rob McGibbon, James Trayford, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Camila Correa, Carlos Frenk, Alexander Richings, Victor Forouhar Moreno, Yannick Bahé, Josh Borrow, Anna Durrant, Andrea Gebek, John Helly, Adrian Jenkins, Cedric Lacey, Aaron Ludlow, Folkert Nobels
    MNRAS (2026), ADS, arXiv

  2. COLIBRE: calibrating subgrid feedback in cosmological simulations that include a cold gas phase
    Evgenii Chaikin, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Yannick Bahé, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Camila Correa, Victor Forouhar Moreno, Carlos Frenk, Filip Huško, Roi Kugel, Rob McGibbon, Alexander Richings, James Trayford, Josh Borrow, Rob Crain, John Helly, Cedric Lacey, Aaron Ludlow, Folkert Nobels
    MNRAS (2026), ADS, arXiv

Papers introducing methods developed for COLIBRE

  1. A thermal-kinetic subgrid model for supernova feedback in simulations of galaxy formation
    Evgenii Chaikin, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Folkert Nobels, Sylvia Ploeckinger
    MNRAS (2023), ADS, arXiv

  2. Tests of subgrid models for star formation using simulations of isolated disc galaxies
    Folkert Nobels, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Evgenii Chaikin, and Alexander Richings
    MNRAS (2024), ADS, arXiv

  3. Hybrid-chimes: A model for radiative cooling and the abundances of ions and molecules in simulations of galaxy formation
    Sylvia Ploeckinger, Alexander Richings, Joop Schaye, James Trayford, Matthieu Schaller, Evgenii Chaikin
    MNRAS (2025), ADS, arXiv

  4. Modelling the evolution and influence of dust in cosmological simulations that include the cold phase of the interstellar medium
    James Trayford, Joop Schaye, Camila Correa, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Alexander Richings, Evgenii Chaikin, Matthieu Schaller, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Carlos Frenk, Filip Huško
    MNRAS (2026), ADS, arXiv

  5. A hybrid active galactic nucleus feedback model with spinning black holes, winds and jets
    Filip Huško, Cedric Lacey, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller, Evgenii Chaikin, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Alexander Richings, James Trayford
    MNRAS (2026), ADS, arXiv

  6. Non-explosive pre-supernova feedback in the COLIBRE model of galaxy formation
    Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Joop Schaye, Alexander Richings, Evgenii Chaikin, Matthieu Schaller, James Trayford, Carlos Frenk, Filip Huško, Camila Correa
    MNRAS (2026), ADS, arXiv

  7. A subgrid model for chemical enrichment in cosmological simulations
    Camila Correa, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller, James Trayford, Evgenii Chaikin, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Carlos Frenk, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Alexander Richings
    MNRAS (2026), ADS, arXiv

COLIBRE collaboration analysis papers

  1. The COLIBRE project: cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation and evolution
    Joop Schaye, Evgenii Chaikin, Matthieu Schaller, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Filip Huško, Robert J. McGibbon, James W. Trayford, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Camila Correa, Carlos S. Frenk, Alexander J. Richings, Victor J. Forouhar Moreno, Yannick M. Bahé, Josh Borrow, Anna Durrant, Andrea Gebek, John C. Helly, Adrian Jenkins, Cedric G. Lacey, Aaron Ludlow, Folkert S. J. Nobels
    MNRAS (2026), ADS, arXiv

  2. COLIBRE: calibrating subgrid feedback in cosmological simulations that include a cold gas phase
    Evgenii Chaikin, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Yannick M. Bahé, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Camila Correa, Victor J. Forouhar Moreno, Carlos S. Frenk, Filip Huško, Roi Kugel, Robert McGibbon, Alexander J. Richings, James W. Trayford, Josh Borrow, Robert A. Crain, John C. Helly, Cedric G. Lacey, Aaron Ludlow, Folkert S. J. Nobels
    MNRAS (2026), ADS, arXiv

  3. A hybrid active galactic nucleus feedback model with spinning black holes, winds and jets
    Filip Huško, Cedric G. Lacey, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller, Evgenii Chaikin, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Alejandro Benítez Llambay, Alexander J. Richings, James W. Trayford
    MNRAS (2026), ADS, arXiv

  4. The evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function and star formation rates in the COLIBRE simulations from redshift 17 to 0
    Evgenii Chaikin, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Carlos S. Frenk, Filip Huško, Robert J. McGibbon, Alexander J. Richings, James W. Trayford
    MNRAS (2026), ADS, arXiv, Download plot data

  5. Gravitational potential drives the concentration dependence of the stellar mass─halo mass relation
    Kai Wang, Joop Schaye, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Evgenii Chaikin, Carlos S. Frenk, Filip Huško, Robert J. McGibbon, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Alexander J. Richings, Matthieu Schaller, James W. Trayford
    MNRAS (2026), ADS, arXiv

  6. Dynamical disequilibrium in dwarf galaxies: rethinking gas dynamics, rotation curves, and dark matter inference
    Diego Dado, Kyle A. Oman, Katherine E. Harborne, Francesca Fragkoudi, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Evgenii Chaikin, Carlos S. Frenk, Filip Huško, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Alexander J. Richings
    MNRAS (2026), ADS, arXiv

  7. Kennicutt─Schmidt relation of galaxies over 13 billion years in the COLIBRE hydrodynamical simulations
    Claudia del P. Lagos, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller, Danail Obreschkow, Yannick M. Bahé, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Evgenii Chaikin, Camila Correa, Timothy A. Davis, Carlos S. Frenk, Filip Huško, Melanie Kaasinen, Robert J. McGibbon, Kyle Oman, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Alexander J. Richings, James W. Trayford, Jing Wang, Ruby J. Wright
    MNRAS (2026), ADS, arXiv

  8. Unveiling the population of massive quenched galaxies at z >= 2 in the COLIBRE simulations - I. Galaxy demographics
    Ángel Chandro-Gómez, Claudia del P. Lagos, Chris Power, William M. Baker, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Evgenii Chaikin, Harry G. Chittenden, Camila Correa, Carlos S. Frenk, Filip Huško, Robert J. McGibbon, Themiya Nanayakkara, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Alexander J. Richings, Matthieu Schaller, Joop Schaye, James W. Trayford
    MNRAS (2026), ADS, arXiv

  9. The importance of super-Eddington black hole accretion for the emergence of massive quiescent galaxies at high redshift
    Evgenii Chaikin, Joop Schaye, Filip Huško, Cedric G. Lacey, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Matthieu Schaller
    MNRAS (2026), ADS, arXiv

  10. The evolution of the sizes and angular momentum content of galaxies in the COLIBRE simulations
    Aaron D. Ludlow, Katy L. Proctor, Joop Schaye, Filip Huško, Victor J. Forouhar Moreno, Danail Obreschkow, Evgenii Chaikin, Matthieu Schaller, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Kyle A. Oman, Robert J. McGibbon, James W. Trayford, Carlos S. Frenk, Alexander J. Richings
    MNRAS (2026), ADS, arXiv

  11. The tidal evolution of satellite galaxies in cosmological simulations: insights from COLIBRE
    Feihong He, Jiaxin Han, Joop Schaye, Wenting Wang, Zhaozhou Li, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Evgenii Chaikin, Robert J. McGibbon, Filip Huško, Matthieu Schaller, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Alexander J. Richings, James W. Trayford, Carlos S. Frenk, Fangzhou Jiang
    MNRAS (2026), ADS, arXiv

  12. The morphologies of present-day galaxies in the COLIBRE simulations
    Victor J. Forouhar Moreno, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller, Aaron Ludlow, Robert J. McGibbon, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Evgenii Chaikin, Carlos S. Frenk, Filip Huško, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Alexander J. Richings, James W. Trayford
    MNRAS (2026), ADS, arXiv

  13. Galaxy luminosity functions from far-UV to submillimetre at z = 0 in the COLIBRE simulations
    Shengdong Lu, Carlos S. Frenk, Cedric G. Lacey, Andrea Gebek, Joop Schaye, Shaun Cole, Sownak Bose, Nick Andreadis, Maarten Baes, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Evgenii Chaikin, Robert A. Crain, Anna Durrant, Filip HuÅ¡ko, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Alexander J. Richings, Matthieu Schaller, James W. Trayford
    MNRAS (2026), ADS, arXiv

  14. The galaxy ultraviolet luminosity function from $z=7$ to $20$ in the COLIBRE simulations
    Shengdong Lu, Carlos S. Frenk, Cedric G. Lacey, Andrea Gebek, Joop Schaye, Shaun Cole, Sownak Bose, Anna Durrant, Nick Andreadis, Maarten Baes, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Evgenii Chaikin, Camila Correa, Robert A. Crain, Filip Huško, Robert J. McGibbon, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Alexander J. Richings, Matthieu Schaller, James W. Trayford
    arxiv (2026), ADS, arXiv

  15. Unveiling the population of massive quenched galaxies at z >= 2 in the COLIBRE simulations - II. The role of AGN feedback and environment on their emergence
    Ángel Chandro-Gómez, Claudia del P Lagos, Chris Power, William M Baker, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Evgenii Chaikin, Harry G Chittenden, Camila Correa, Carlos S Frenk, Filip Huško, Kei Ito, Robert J McGibbon, Themiya Nanayakkara, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Alexander J Richings, Matthieu Schaller, Joop Schaye, James W Trayford, Francesco Valentino
    MNRAS (2026), ADS, arXiv

  16. The evolution of the galaxy gas-phase mass-metallicity relation from $z=15$ to $z=0$ in the COLIBRE cosmological simulations
    Piyush Sharda, Joop Schaye, Robert J. McGibbon, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Evgenii Chaikin, Carlos S. Frenk, Jacqueline Hodge, Filip Huško, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Alexander J. Richings, Matthieu Schaller
    arxiv (2026), ADS, arXiv

  17. The COLIBRE-SKIRT pipeline: Calibration-free dust radiative transfer postprocessing for cosmological simulations
    Andrea Gebek, Maarten Baes, Nick Andreadis, Joop Schaye, Anand Utsav Kapoor, Connor Bottrell, Shengdong Lu, Cedric G. Lacey, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Peter Camps, Evgenii Chaikin, Anna Durrant, Carlos S. Frenk, Filip Huško, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Alexander J. Richings, Matthieu Schaller, James W. Trayford, Aswin P. Vijayan
    arxiv (2026), ADS, arXiv

  18. Cosmological simulations of the high-redshift galaxy population adopting a variable stellar initial mass function
    Anna Durrant, Robert A. Crain, Cedric G. Lacey, Joop Schaye, Renske Smit, Andrea Gebek, Matthieu Schaller, Shengdong Lu, Evgenii Chaikin, Nick Andreadis, Maarten Baes, Matthew R. Bate, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Carlos S. Frenk, Filip Huško, Robert J. McGibbon, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Alexander J. Richings
    arxiv (2026), ADS, arXiv

  19. The evolution of galaxy dust scaling relations in the COLIBRE simulations
    Aswin P. Vijayan, James W. Trayford, Joop Schaye, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Andrea Gebek, Nick Andreadis, Maarten Baes, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Evgenii Chaikin, Carlos S. Frenk, Filip Huško, Robert J. McGibbon, Alexander J. Richings, Matthieu Schaller
    arxiv (2026), ADS, arXiv

  20. The influence of feedback on the baryonic content of haloes in the COLIBRE simulations
    Jonathan J. Davies, Joop Schaye, Filip Huško, Ruby J. Wright, Evgenii Chaikin, Matthieu Schaller, Robert J. McGibbon, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Alexander J. Richings
    arxiv (2026), ADS, arXiv

  21. The effect of galaxy interactions on star formation rates in the COLIBRE simulations
    Quinten W. E. van Zegveld, Evgenii Chaikin, Joop Schaye, David R. Patton, Sara L. Ellison, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Filip Huško, Robert J. McGibbon, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Alexander J. Richings, Matthieu Schaller
    arxiv (2026), ADS, arXiv

  22. The progenitors of $z\gtrsim10$ JWST galaxies in the COLIBRE simulations
    Evgenii Chaikin, Andrew Pontzen, Carlos S. Frenk, Joop Schaye, Shengdong Lu, Robert A. Crain, Anna Durrant
    arxiv (2026), ADS, arXiv

  23. The descendants of $z \gtrsim 10$ JWST galaxies in the COLIBRE simulations
    Xu Zhao, Carlos S. Frenk, Andrew Pontzen, Kyle A. Oman, Evgenii Chaikin, Isabel Santos-Santos, Shengdong Lu, Joop Schaye, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Filip Huško, Alexander J. Richings, Matthieu Schaller
    arxiv (2026), ADS, arXiv

  24. The origin of the stellar mass-size relation of satellite galaxies in the COLIBRE simulations
    Bruno M. Celiz, Julio F. Navarro, Joop Schaye, Mario G. Abadi, Alejandro Benitez-Llambay, Evgenii Chaikin, Carlos S. Frenk, Filip Huško, Aaron D. Ludlow, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Alexander J. Richings, Matthieu Schaller
    arxiv (2026), ADS, arXiv

  25. The atomic multiphase interstellar medium of galaxies in the COLIBRE simulations
    Moa Huppenkothen, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Joop Schaye, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Evgenii Chaikin, Filip Huško, Alexander J. Richings, James W. Trayford, Alvaro Hacar, Juan D. Soler
    arxiv (2026), ADS, arXiv

  26. Clustering-based halo mass assignment for high-redshift galaxies: method, validation, and application to JWST
    Seunghwan Lim, Sandro Tacchella, Sara Saleh, Roberto Maiolino, Lily Whitler, Joop Schaye, Evgenii Chaikin, Carlos S. Frenk, Filip Huško, Alexander J. Richings
    arxiv (2026), ADS, arXiv

  27. Resolving the physics of Quasar Ly$α$ Nebulae (RePhyNe): II. The dense and clumpy CGM of Quasars at $z \sim$ 3.5
    Titouan Lazeyras, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Andrea Travascio, Nicolas Ledos, Joop Schaye, Gabriele Pezzulli, Federico Baraggioni, Alessandro Lupi, Andrea V. Macciò, Marta Galbiati, Antonio Pensabene, Giada Quadri, Weichen Wang
    arxiv (2026), ADS, arXiv

Community papers showing COLIBRE results (incomplete)

  1. On the unique evolutionary mechanisms of massive quiescent galaxies in the epoch of reionization
    Harry George Chittenden, Karl Glazebrook, Themiya Nanayakkara, Lalitwadee Kawinwanichakij, Claudia Lagos, Lucas Kimmig, Rhea-Silvia Remus
    MNRAS (2026), ADS, arXiv

  2. Interstellar Dust Production, Destruction and Effects of Dust Depletion in Galaxies
    Francesco Calura
    Galaxies (2026), ADS, arXiv

  3. Modeling Galaxy Formation in Cosmological Simulations with CRK-HACC
    Nicholas Frontiere, J. D. Emberson, Michael Buehlmann, Salman Habib, Katrin Heitmann, Nesar Ramachandra, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère
    arxiv (2025), ADS, arXiv

  4. The contribution of stars, dust, neutral gas, and supermassive black holes in galaxies to the cosmic baryon inventory
    Jordan C. J. D'Silva, Simon P. Driver, Aaron S. G. Robotham, Andrew Battisti, Elisabete da Cunha, Luke J. M. Davies, Stephen Eales, Claudia del P. Lagos
    MNRAS (2026), ADS, arXiv

  5. The JWST EXCELS survey: the ages and abundances of 3 < z < 5 massive quiescent galaxies show that downsizing was already in place by z ≃ 4
    Ho-Hin Leung, Adam C. Carnall, Elizabeth Taylor, Struan D. Stevenson, Aliza G. Beverage, Fergus Cullen, James S. Dunlop, Derek J. McLeod, Ross J. McLure, Ryan Begley, Omar Almaini, Stella Antonogiannaki, Karla Z. Arellano-Córdova, Laia Barrufet, Cecilia Bondestam, Callum T. Donnan, Isaac J. B. Holst, Feng-Yuan F. Liu, Kate Rowlands, Ryan L. Sanders, Dirk Scholte, Maya Skarbinski, Thomas M. Stanton, Vivienne Wild
    MNRAS (2026), ADS, arXiv

  6. Characterising Lyα damping wings at the onset of reionisation: Evidence for highly efficient star formation driven by dense, neutral gas in UV-bright galaxies at z > 9
    Clara L. Pollock et al.
    Astronomy and Astrophysics (2026), ADS, arXiv

  7. Unseen Astronomy
    J. W. Trayford
    Astronomy and Geophysics (2026), ADS, arXiv

  8. A search for the first galaxies across $>0.6$ deg$^2$ of JWST imaging: new evidence for a rapid decline in star-formation activity at $z>12$
    D. J. McLeod, J. S. Dunlop, R. J. McLure, C. T. Donnan, R. Begley, S. Antonogiannaki, D. Magee, G. D. Illingworth, P. Arrabal Haro, C. Bondestam, A. C. Carnall, F. Cullen, M. Dickinson, R. S. Ellis, B. L. Frye, H. Golawska, N. A. Grogin, I. J. B. Holst, P. S. Kamieneski, H.-H. Leung, F.-Y. Liu, T. M. Stanton, E. R. Tittley
    arxiv (2026), ADS, arXiv

  9. Cosmological Galaxy Formation Modelling in the Era of the Square Kilometre Array
    Claudia D. P. Lagos, Carlton M. Baugh, Connor Bottrell, Romeel Dave, Gabriella De Lucia, Jindra Gensior, Filip Husko, Cedric Lacey, Danail Obreschkow, Kyle Oman, Chris Power, Nicole Thomas, Ruby J. Wright, Lizhi Xie
    Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA I (2026), ADS, arXiv

  10. JWST spectroscopy of galaxies at $z>10$: Damped Ly$α$ absorbers reveal efficient star formation and hidden redshift biases
    Kasper E. Heintz et al.
    arxiv (2026), ADS, arXiv

  11. Diverse ionized gas conditions in a dynamically hot, interacting galaxy at $z = 9.31$ revealed by JWST/NIRSpec IFU
    Ryota Ikeda, Takahiro Morishita, Massimo Stiavelli, Antonello Calabrò
    arxiv (2026), ADS, arXiv

  12. Resolved Dust-Gas-Metallicity relations in nearby spiral galaxies
    Vidhi Tailor, Viviana Casasola, Francesco Calura, Francesca Pozzi, Jacopo Fritz, Maritza Lara-López, Marco Palla, Simone Bianchi, Santiago Álvarez-Córdoba, Matteo Bonato, María Emilia De Rossi, Sami Dib, Luis E. Garduño, Andrea Giannetti, Omar López Cruz, Marina M. Puebla, Evangelos D. Paspaliaris, Leonid S. Pilyugin, Guillermo Valé, Mabel Valerdi
    arxiv (2026), ADS, arXiv

  13. Resolved SED modelling with JWST and ALMA: the role of stellar mass surface density in regulating star formation in cosmic noon galaxies
    Cheng-Lin Liao et al.
    MNRAS (2026), ADS, arXiv

  14. PRISMS. GHZ1. A standard tale of galaxy evolution with atypical ionizing conditions at $z=9.878$
    Borja Pérez-Díaz et al.
    arxiv (2026), ADS, arXiv

  15. ALMA Chemical Evolution (ACE) survey: dust-to-gas ratios in sub-solar metallicity galaxies at cosmic noon
    N. N. Geesink, G. Popping, L. A. Boogaard, I. Langan, A. Pope, R. Popescu, I. Shivaei, M. Solimano, M. Kaasinen, B. Mobasher, D. Narayanan, M. Parente, N. Reddy, R. L. Sanders
    arxiv (2026), ADS, arXiv

  16. Quiescent Galaxies at $z > 2$ from CAPERS spectroscopy and their Number densities
    Lu Shen et al.
    arxiv (2026), ADS, arXiv

  17. JWST evidence for a sharp "Cosmic Daybreak" at z = 15
    Jiashuo Zhang, Tom Broadhurst, Tzihong Chiueh, Hsi-Yu Schive, Keiichi Umetsu, Jose M. Diego, Paloma Morilla, Alvaro Pozo, Chian-Chou Chen, Jeremy Lim, Pablo G. Perez-Gonzalez, Rogier Windhorst
    arxiv (2026), ADS, arXiv



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