Oral title: Formation and properties of galactic bulges in MW-sized haloes in the AURIGA simulations

Oral abstract: We study the formation and properties of galactic bulges in the Auriga simulations, a 
suite of forty cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical zoom-in simulations of late-type galaxies in 
MW-sized Dark Matter haloes performed with the moving-mesh code AREPO. We aim to 
characterize the formation mechanisms of bulges of an unprecedented large number of galaxies 
simulated with high levels of resolution in a cosmological context. The bulges of the Auriga galaxies 
show variety in their shapes, sizes and formation histories. A few of them resemble the X-shape of 
the MW bulge. Most of the Auriga bulges have less than 25% of accreted stellar particles. We search 
for correlations between bulge properties such as  major-to-minor axis ratios, metallicities, ages, and 
accretion fraction to define observable properties that will help constraining bulges' origins. Our 
results are well-suited to compare with current observations of the Milky Way bulge and shed light 
into its formation.