{"paper":{"title":"The origin of the diverse morphologies and kinematics of Milky Way-mass galaxies in the FIRE-2 simulations","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.GA","authors_text":"Andrew Wetzel, Christopher C. Hayward, Claude-Andr\\'e Faucher-Gigu\\`ere, Dusan Keres, Eliot Quataert, Freeke van de Voort, James S. Bullock, Kareem El-Badry, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Philip F. Hopkins, Robyn E. Sanderson, Shea Garrison-Kimmel, Xiangcheng Ma, Zachary Hafen","submitted_at":"2017-12-11T19:00:03Z","abstract_excerpt":"We use hydrodynamic cosmological zoom-in simulations from the FIRE project to explore the morphologies and kinematics of fifteen Milky Way (MW)-mass galaxies. Our sample ranges from compact, bulge-dominated systems with 90% of their stellar mass within 2.5 kpc to well-ordered disks that reach $\\gtrsim15$ kpc. The gas in our galaxies always forms a thin, rotation-supported disk at $z=0$, with sizes primarily determined by the gas mass. For stars, we quantify kinematics and morphology both via the fraction of stars on disk-like orbits and with the radial extent of the stellar disk. In this mass "},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1712.03966","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}