Simon D. M. White

Research topics

• Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena · 5 papers
• Scientific Research and Discoveries · 2 papers
• Spectroscopy and Laser Applications · 1 paper
• Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies · 1 paper
• Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae · 1 paper
• Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies · 1 paper

Frequent co-authors

• Guinevere Kauffmann · 2 papers
• Timothy M. Heckman · 2 papers
• Christy Tremonti · 2 papers
• J. Brinchmann · 2 papers
• S. Charlot · 2 papers
• Jon Brinkmann · 2 papers
• M. Fukugita · 2 papers
• Carlos Silvestre Frenk · 2 papers

Papers

1. The host galaxies of active galactic nucleiMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2003 · 3,997 citations

   We examine the properties of the host galaxies of 22 623 narrow-line active galactic nuclei (AGN) with 0.02 < z < 0.3 selected from a complete sample of 122 808 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We focus on…

2. Core condensation in heavy halos: a two-stage theory for galaxy formation and clusteringMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1978 · 3,925 citations

   We suggest that most of the material in the Universe condensed at an early epoch into small ‘dark’ objects. Irrespective of their nature, these objects must subsequently have undergone hierarchical clustering, whose present scale we infer from the large-scale distribution…

3. The Origin of the Mass‐Metallicity Relation: Insights from 53,000 Star‐forming Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky SurveyThe Astrophysical Journal · 2004 · 3,621 citations

   We utilize Sloan Digital Sky Survey imaging and spectroscopy of ~53,000 star-forming galaxies at z ~ 0.1 to study the relation between stellar mass and gas-phase metallicity. We derive gas-phase oxygen abundances and stellar masses using new techniques that make…

4. The EAGLE project: simulating the evolution and assembly of galaxies and their environmentsMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2014 · 3,620 citations

   We introduce the Virgo Consortium's Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments (EAGLE) project, a suite of hydrodynamical simulations that follow the formation of galaxies and supermassive black holes in cosmologically representative volumes of a standard Λ cold dark…

5. The evolution of large-scale structure in a universe dominated by cold dark matterThe Astrophysical Journal · 1985 · 3,402 citations

   The results of numerical simulations of nonlinear gravitational clustering in universes dominated by weakly interacting, 'cold' dark matter are presented. The numerical methods used and the way in which initial conditions were generated are described, and the simulations performed are…