Numerical studies of galaxy formation using special purpose hardware
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
I review recent progress in numerically simulating the formation and evolution of galaxies in hierarchically clustering universes. Special emphasis is given to results based on high-resolution gas dynamical simulations using the N-body hardware integrator GRAPE. Applications address the origin of the spin of disk galaxies, the structure and kinematics of damped Lyman-alpha systems, and the origin of galaxy morphology and of galaxy scaling laws.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0201427,
title = {Numerical studies of galaxy formation using special purpose hardware},
author = {Matthias Steinmetz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0201427},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
12 pages, invited review presented at the IAU Symposium 208 "Astrophysical Supercomputing using Particle Simulations", Tokyo, July 2001