Semi-Analytic Galaxy Evolution (SAGE): Model Calibration and Basic Results
Abstract
This paper describes a new publicly available codebase for modelling galaxy formation in a cosmological context, the "Semi-Analytic Galaxy Evolution" model, or SAGE for short. SAGE is a significant update to that used in Croton et al. (2006) and has been rebuilt to be modular and customisable. The model will run on any N-body simulation whose trees are organised in a supported format and contain a minimum set of basic halo properties. In this work we present the baryonic prescriptions implemented in SAGE to describe the formation and evolution of galaxies, and their calibration for three N-body simulations: Millennium, Bolshoi, and GiggleZ. Updated physics include: gas accretion, ejection due to feedback, and reincorporation via the galactic fountain; a new gas cooling--radio mode active galactic nucleus (AGN) heating cycle; AGN feedback in the quasar mode; a new treatment of gas in satellite galaxies; and galaxy mergers, disruption, and the build-up of intra-cluster stars. Throughout, we show the results of a common default parameterization on each simulation, with a focus on the local galaxy population.
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@article{arxiv.1601.04709,
title = {Semi-Analytic Galaxy Evolution (SAGE): Model Calibration and Basic Results},
author = {Darren J. Croton and Adam R. H. Stevens and Chiara Tonini and Thibault Garel and Maksym Bernyk and Antonio Bibiano and Luke Hodkinson and Simon J. Mutch and Gregory B. Poole and Genevieve M. Shattow},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.04709},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
15 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in ApJS. SAGE is a publicly available codebase for modelling galaxy formation in a cosmological context, available at https://github.com/darrencroton/sage Questions and comments can be sent to Darren Croton: dcroton@astro.swin.edu.au