davé, romeel2022-12-052022-12-052019Francisco Rodríguez Montero, Romeel Davé, Vivienne Wild, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Desika Narayanan, Mergers, starbursts, and quenching in the SIMBA simulation, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 490, Issue 2, December 2019, Pages 2139–2154, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz25802331-8422http://hdl.handle.net/10566/8225We use the SIMBAcosmological galaxy formation simulation to investigate the relationship between major mergers (4:1), starbursts, and galaxy quenching. Mergers are identified via sudden jumps in stellar mass M∗ well above that expected from in situ star formation, while quenching is defined as going from specific star formation rate (sSFR) > t−1 H to < 0.2t −1 H , where tH is the Hubble time.en-USgalaxiesevolutionformationArticle