GAEA - Publications

Model Presentation Papers

(1) De Lucia et al. 2014: Elemental abundances in Milky Way-like galaxies from a hierarchical galaxy formation model

(2) Hirschmann et al. 2016: Galaxy assembly, stellar feedback and metal enrichment: the view from the GAEA model

(3) Xie et al. 2017: H2-based star formation laws in hierarchical models of galaxy formation

(4) Fontanot et al. 2017: Variations of the stellar initial mass function in semi-analytical models: implications for the mass assembly and the chemical enrichment of galaxies in the GAEA model

(5) Fontanot et al. 2018: Variations of the stellar initial mass function in semi-analytical models - II. The impact of cosmic ray regulation

(6) Fontanot et al. 2020: The rise of active galactic nuclei in the galaxy evolution and assembly semi-analytic model

(7) Xie et al. 2020: The influence of environment on satellite galaxies in the GAEA semi-analytic model

(8) De Lucia et al. 2024a: On the origin of globular clusters in a hierarchical Universe

(9) De Lucia et al. 2024b: Tracing the Quenching Journey across Cosmic Time

(10) Fontanot et al. 2024: Variation of the stellar initial mass function in semi-analytical models. III. Testing the cosmic-ray regulated integrated galaxy-wide initial mass function

(11) Fontanot et al. 2025: Galaxy assembly and evolution in the P-Millennium simulation: galaxy clustering

(12) Osman et al. 2026: Dust evolution across cosmic times as seen through DUSTY-GAEA

GAEA Papers by team members or collaborations in which team members are heavily involved

(1) Zoldan et al. 2017: H I-selected galaxies in hierarchical models of galaxy formation and evolution

(2) De Lucia et al. 2017: AGN feedback and the origin of the α enhancement in early-type galaxies - insights from the GAEA model

(3) Fontanot et al. 2017: Strong Stellar-driven Outflows Shape the Evolution of Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn

(4) Fontanot et al. 2018: On the shape and evolution of a cosmic-ray-regulated galaxy-wide stellar initial mass function

(5) Xie et al. 2018: On the influence of environment on star-forming galaxies

(6) Zoldan et al. 2018: Structural and dynamical properties of galaxies in a hierarchical Universe: sizes and specific angular momenta

(7) De Lucia et al. 2019: Nature versus nurture: what regulates star formation in satellite galaxies?

(8) Zoldan et al. 2019: The evolution of sizes and specific angular momenta in hierarchical models of galaxy formation and evolution

(9) Spinelli et al. 2020: The atomic hydrogen content of the post-reionization Universe

(10) Di Gioia et al. 2020: Damped Ly α absorbers and atomic hydrogen in galaxies: the view of the GAEA model

(11) De Lucia et al. 2020: Gas accretion regulates the scatter of the mass-metallicity relation

(12) Fontanot et al. 2021: The evolution of the mass-metallicity relations from the VANDELS survey and the GAEA semi-analytic model

(13) Fontanot et al. 2023: Variation of the stellar initial mass function in semi-analytic models III: testing the cosmic ray regulated integrated galaxy-wide initial mass function

(14) Zakharova et al. 2023: The filament determination depends on the tracer: comparing filaments based on dark matter particles and galaxies in the GAEA semi-analytic model

(15) Xie et al. 2024: The first quenched galaxies, when and how?

(16) Scharré et al. 2024: Euclid preparation: XLV. Optical emission-line predictions of intermediate-z galaxy populations in GAEA for the Euclid Deep and Wide Surveys

(17) Zakharova et al. 2024: Virgo Filaments: III. The gas content of galaxies in filaments as predicted by the GAEA semi-analytic mode

(18) Böhringer et al. 2025: Euclid preparation: LV. Exploring the properties of proto-clusters in the simulated Euclid Wide Survey

(19) Conger et al. 2025: Virgo Filaments. IV. Using WISE to measure the modification of star-forming disks in the extended regions around the Virgo cluster

(20) Cammelli et al. 2025: The formation of supermassive black holes from Population III.1 seeds. III. Galaxy evolution and black hole growth from semi-analytic modelling

(21) Xie et al. 2025: The impact of ram pressure on cluster galaxies, insights from GAEA and TNG

(22) Malavasi et al. 2025: Euclid preparation. Establishing the quality of the 2D reconstruction of the filaments of the cosmic web with DisPerSE using Euclid photometric redshifts

(23) Zakharova et al. 2025: Environmental history of filament galaxies: stellar mass assembly and star-formation of filament galaxies

(24) Faisst et al. 2025: The ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST Survey: The Fast Metal Enrichment of Massive Galaxies at z~5

(25) Tan et al. 2025: A semi-analytical mock galaxy catalog for the CSST extragalactic surveys from the Jiutian simulations

(26) Cantarella et al. 2025: Probing the dawn of galaxies: star formation and feedback in the JWST era through the GAEA model

(27) De Lucia et al. 2025: Where Giants Dwell: Probing the Environments of Early Massive Quiescent Galaxies

(28) Fontanot et al. 2025: Do z>6 quasars reside in protoclusters?

(29) Mayor et al. 2026: Simulations of 21cm emission line for upcoming large-scale HI galaxy surveys

(30) Fontanot et al. 2026: Reinterpreting the puzzling properties of z>6 galaxies within a variable IMF framework

(31) Kraljic et al. 2026: 3D reconstruction of the cosmic web with Euclid Deep spectroscopic samples

(32) Papini et al. 2026: Probing galaxy evolution within cosmic voids in Euclid-like simulations

(33) Cleland et al. 2026: The evolution of the passive-density and morphology-density relations between z=0.25 and z=1

(34) Kamran et al. 2026: Modeling the HI-Halo connection: evolution, scatter, and halo-based prescriptions for 21-cm mock catalogues

Other papers using GAEA results

Disclaimer: this list might be incomplete (we are happy to share our model results and a few predictions are publicly available - see dedicated section)

(1) Wang et al. 2019: Starburst galaxies in semi-analytic models of galaxy formation and evolution

(2) Cunnington et al. 2019: Impact of foregrounds on H I intensity mapping cross-correlations with optical surveys

(3) Guaita et al. 2020: The VANDELS survey: Discovery of massive overdensities of galaxies at z > 2. Location of Lyα-emitting galaxies with respect to environment

(4) Calabro' et al. 2021: The VANDELS survey: The relation between the UV continuum slope and stellar metallicity in star-forming galaxies at z∼3

(5) Aguirre Tagliaferro et al. 2021: Dynamical analysis of clusters of galaxies from cosmological simulations

(6) Zhang et al. 2021: An Empirical Determination of the Dependence of the Circumgalactic Mass Cooling Rate and Feedback Mass Loading Factor on Galactic Stellar Mass

(7) Zhaoting et al. 2021: Extracting HI astrophysics from interferometric intensity mapping

(8) Saxena et al. 2021: The VANDELS Survey: new constraints on the high-mass X-ray binary populations in normal star-forming galaxies at 3 < z < 5.5

(9) Calabro' et al. 2022: The environmental dependence of the stellar and gas-phase mass-metallicity relation at 2 < z < 4

(10) Spinelli et al. 2022: SKAO HI intensity mapping: blind foreground subtraction challenge

(11) Lustig et al. 2023: Massive quiescent galaxies at z∼3: a comparison of selection, stellar population and structural properties with simulation predictions

(12) Saracco et al. 2023: The star formation history and the nature of the mass-metallicity relation of passive galaxies at 1.0 < z < 1.4 from VANDELS

(13) Meng et al. 2023: Galaxy populations in Groups and Clusters: evidence for a characteristic stellar mass scale at M*~10^9.5 Msun

(14) Tripodi et al. 2023: Dynamical signature of a stellar bulge in a quasar-host galaxy at z~6

(15) Alonso-Tetilla et al. 2024: Probing the roles of orientation and multiscale gas distributions in shaping the obscuration of active galactic nuclei through cosmic time

(16) Shah et al. 2024: Identification and characterization of six spectroscopically confirmed massive protoclusters at 2.5 < z < 4.5

(17) Chen et al. 2024: Environmental effects on satellite galaxies from the perspective of cold gas

(18) Bevacqua et al. 2024: A new perspective on the stellar mass-metallicity relation of quiescent galaxies from the LEGA-C survey

(19) Grazian et al. 2024: What are the pillats of reionization? Revisiting the AGN luminosity function at z~5

(20) Forrest et al. 2024: MAGAZ3NE: Massive, extremely dusty galaxies at z~2 lead to photometric overestimation of the number densities of the most massive galaxies at 3<z<4

(21) Lagos et al. 2025: The diverse star formation histories of early massive, quenched galaxies in modern galaxy formation simulations

(22) Valenzuela et al. 2025: Globular cluster ages and their relation to high-redshift stellar cluster formation times from different globular cluster models

(23) Hung et al. 2025: Discovering large-scale structure at 2<z<5 in the C3VO Survey

(24) Salvestrini et al. 2025: Molecular gas and dust properties in z>7 quasar hosts

(25) de Graaff et al. 2025: Efficient formation of a massive quiescent galaxy at redshift 4.9

(26) Welsh et al. 2025: The clustering of C IV and Si IV at the end of reionization: A perspective from the E-XQR-30 survey

(27) Alonso-Tetilla et al. 2025: Characterizing the roles of transitory obscured phases and inner torus in shaping the fractions of obscured AGN at cosmic noon

(28) Giddings et al. 2025: The HST-Hyperion Survey: Companion Fraction and Overdensity in a z~2.5 Proto-supercluster

(29) Ito et al. 2025: A merging pair of massive quiescent galaxies at z = 3.44 in the Cosmic Vine

(30) Wen et al. 2025: NEUTRALUNIVERSEMACHINE: Predictions of H I gas in different theoretical models

(31) Biviano et al. 2025: CLASH-VLT: The variance of the velocity anisotropy profiles of galaxy clusters

(32) Arizo-Borrillo et al. 2025: J-PLUS: The stellar mass function of quiescent and star forming galaxies at 0.05 <= z <= 0.2

(33) Yang et al. 2025: A census of quiescent galaxies across 0.5<z<8 with JWST/MIRI: Mass-dependent number density evolution of quiescent galaxies in the early Universe

(34) Traina et al. 2025: The observed total star formation rate function up to z~6: complementary UV and IR contributions and comparison with state-of-the-art galaxy formation models

(35) de Santi et al. 2025: Galaxy Phase-Space and Field-Level Cosmology: The Strength of Semi-Analytic Models

(36) Van Kempen et al. 2025: Group Therapy for Halos: Advancing Halo Mass Estimation for Galaxy Groups

(37) Singh et al. 2025: Black hole merger rates for LISA and LGWA from semi-analytical modelling of light seeds

(38) Santini et al. 2025: The Early Maturity of High-Redshift Galaxies: Insights from sSFR, M/L and SFHs at z~7-14

(39) Valenzuela et al. 2025: Globular cluster ages and their relation to high-redshift stellar cluster formation times from different globular cluster models

(40) Shuntov et al. 2025: COSMOS-Web: stellar mass assembly in relation to dark matter halos across 0.2 < z < 12 of cosmic history

(41) Franco et al. 2025: Physical properties of galaxies and the UV luminosity function from z~6 to z~14 in COSMOS-Web

(42) Welsh et al. 2025: The clustering of CIV and SiIV at the end of reionization: a perspective from the E-XQR-30 survey

(43) Qu et al. 2025: ViT-based Local Volume Dwarf Galaxy Identification (VIDA) in the CSST survey

(44) Tripodi et al. 2025: Extreme properties of a compact and massive accretion black hole host in the first 500 Myr

(45) Hamadouche et al. 2026: DeepDive: Tracing the early quenching pathways of massive quiescent galaxies at z>3 from their star-formation histories and chemical abundances

(46) Vulcani et al. 2026: Mechanisms Affecting Galaxies Nearby and Environmental Trends (MAGNET)

(47) Yang et al. 2026: A census of quiescent galaxies across 0.5 < z < 8 with JWST/MIRI: mass-dependent number density evolution of quiescent galaxies in the early Universe

(48) Shuntov et al. 2026: The stellar mass function of quiescent and star-forming galaxies and its dependence on morphology in COSMOS-Web

(49) Noble et al. 2026: Probing the large-scale structure with 21cm galaxy cross-bispectrum: estimates from simulations and forecasts for upcoming cosmological surveys

(50) Alonso-Tettilla et al. 2026: Characterizing the roles of transitory obscured phases and inner torus in shaping the fractions of obscured Active Galactic Nuclei at cosmic noon

(51) Zhang et al. 2026: Star formation powers optical line emission from the CGM

(52) Guo et al. 2026: Limited imprint of high-mass initial mass function variations on sodium abundances in main sequence galaxies

(53) Nasirudin et al. 2026: Predicted number counts and clustering of HI galaxies from future radio surveys