Jaime E. Forero-Romero

Contact

Research

• What physical processes did shape the youngest galaxy generations? The observational properties of distant galaxy populations will be thoroughly explored in the up-coming decade. I develop models, mostly based on hydrodynamical simulations, that are useful for the interpretation of recent and future observations of such galaxies.
  
  
• How did the Milky Way form? Understanding the formation of our own Galaxy will influence the development of different topics, including experiments aiming at detecting the dark matter particle. I take part in the CLUES collaboration building models of the Milky Way assembly.
  
  
• What is the impact of the cosmic web on the formation and evolution of galaxies? The 3D spatial distribution of galaxies form a distinctive pattern known as cosmic web. I implement algorithms that describe this filamentary network and help me track the different processes shaping galaxy evolution depending on the location of these galaxies inside the web. I develop this work in collaboration with researchers in the Bolshoi Project and MultiDark Consortium.

Refereed Publications

• [14] The kinematics of the Local Group in a cosmological context,
  J.E. Forero-Romero, Y. Hoffman, S. Bustamante, S. Gottlöber, G. Yepes, ApJ Letters, Volume 767, Number 1 (2013)
  ArXiv:1303.2690
  
  
• [13] The velocity shear tensor: tracer of halo alignment,
  N. I. Libeskind, Y. Hoffman, J.E. Forero-Romero, S. Gottlöber, A. Knebe, M. Steinmetz, A. Klypin, MNRAS 428, 2489 (2013)
  ArXiv:1210.4559
  
  
• [12] Effects of Star Formation Stochasticity on the Ly alpha & Lyman Continuum Emission from Dwarf Galaxies,
  J. E. Forero-Romero, M. Dijkstra. MNRAS 428, 2163 (2013)
  ArXiv:1206.0726
  
  
• [11] A kinematic classification of the cosmic web,
  Y. Hoffman, O. Metuki , G. Yepes, S. Gottloeber, J. E. Forero-Romero, N. I. Libeskind, A. Knebe, MNRAS, 425, 2049, (2012).
  ArXiv:1201.3367
  
  
• [10] The MultiDark Database: Release of the Bolshoi and MultiDark Cosmological Simulations ,
  K. Riebe , A. M. Partl, H. Enke, J. Forero-Romero, S. Gottloeber, A. Klypin, G. Lemson, F. Prada, J. R. Primack, M. Steinmetz, V. Turchaninov, New Astronomy submitted (2011).
  ArXiv:1109.0003
  
  
• [9] Modelling the fraction of Lyman Break Galaxies with strong Lyman-alpha emission at 5 < z < 7,
  Forero-Romero J.E., Yepes G., Gottloeber S., Prada F., MNRAS, 419, 952, (2012)
  ArXiv:1109.0288
  
  
• [8] The dark matter assembly of the Local Group in constrained cosmological simulations of a LCDM universe,
  Forero-Romero J.E., Hoffman Y., Yepes G., Gottloeber S., Piontek R., Klypin A., Steinmetz M., MNRAS, 417, 1434, (2011)
  ArXiv:1107.0017
  
  
• [7] Halo based reconstruction of the cosmic mass density field ,
  Munoz-Cuartas J. C., Mueller V, Forero-Romero J. E., MNRAS, 417, 1303, (2011)
  ArXiv:1107.1062
  
  
• [6] CLARA's view on the escape fraction of Lyman-alpha photons in high redshift galaxies,
  Forero-Romero J. E., Yepes G., Gottloeber S., Knollmann S. R., Cuesta A. J., Prada F., MNRAS, 415, 3666 (2011).
  ArXiv:1104.5586
  
  
• [5] Bullet Clusters in the MareNostrum Universe,
  Forero-Romero J. E., Gottloeber S., Yepes G., ApJ, Volume 725, 1, (2010).
  ArXiv:1007.3902
  
  
• [4] Simulated vs. observed UV emission at high redshift: a hint for a clumpy ISM?,
  Forero-Romero J. E., Yepes G., Gottloeber S., Knollmann S. R., Khalatyan A., Cuesta A. J. Prada, F., MNRAS: Letters, 403, (2010).
  ArXiv:0912.0664
  
  
• [3] The coarse geometry of merger trees in LambdaCDM,
  Forero-Romero J. E., MNRAS, 399, (2009).
  ArXiv:0801.1955
  
  
• [2] A Dynamical Classification of the Cosmic Web,
  Forero-Romero, J. E., Hoffman Y., Gottloeber S., Klypin, A., Yepes G., MNRAS, 396, (2009).
  ArXiv:0809.4135
  
  
• [1] LeMoMaF: Lensed Mock Map Facility,
  Forero-Romero J.E., Blaizot J., Devriendt J., Van Waerbeke L., Guiderdoni B., MNRAS, 379, (2007).
  ArXiv:0611932
  
  

Outside astrophysics

• [1] Visualising Matter and Cosmologies: A Transhistorical Example,
  Ayala, L. Forero-Romero J.E., Column 7, New Imaging: Transdisciplinary strategies for art beyond the new media, ed. by Su Baker, Melanie Oliver and Paul Thomas (2011).
  ArXiv:1110.6772