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Cosmological simulations of galaxy clusters typically find that the weight of a cluster at a given radius is not balanced entirely by the thermal gas pressure of the hot ICM, with theoretical studies emphasizing the role of random turbulent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Taotao Fang , Philip J. Humphrey , David A. Buote

The surface brightness fluctuations (SBF) method measures the variance in a galaxy's light distribution arising from fluctuations in the numbers and luminosities of individual stars per resolution element. Once calibrated for stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-06 John Blakeslee

We present a full-wave Maxwell-density matrix simulation tool including c-number stochastic noise terms for the modeling of the spatiotemporal dynamics in active photonic devices, such as quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) and quantum dot (QD)…

A new semi-analytic modelling of galaxy evolution in the IR/submm is hereafter outlined. This type of approach successfully reproduces the optical properties of galaxies. We illustrate a simple extension to the IR/submm wavelength range by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Guiderdoni , E. Hivon , F. R. Bouchet

We present cosmological simulations of galaxy clusters, with focus on the cluster outskirts. We show that large-scale cosmic accretion and mergers produce significant internal gas motions and inhomogeneous gas distribution ("clumpiness") in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-10 Daisuke Nagai

We present results of large N-body-hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy formation. Our simulations follow the formation of galaxies in cubic volumes of side 100Mpc, in two versions of the cold dark matter (CDM) cosmogony: the standard,…

(Summary) Using the conditional luminosity function (CLF) -- the luminosity distribution of galaxies in a dark matter halo -- as the fundamental building block, we present an empirical model for the galaxy distribution. The model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Asantha Cooray

An overview over the current status of modeling galaxies by means of numerical simulations is given. After a short description of how galaxies form in hierarchically clustering scenarios, success and failures of current simulations are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Steinmetz

For the next generation of spectroscopic galaxy surveys, it is important to forecast their performances and to accurately interpret their large data sets. For this purpose, it is necessary to consistently simulate different populations of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-01 Martina Fagioli , Luca Tortorelli , Jörg Herbel , Dominik Zürcher , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara

We model the two-point correlation function of galaxies in a cold dark matter Universe by combining two powerful theoretical tools - dissipationless N-body simulations of dark matter clustering (specifically the GIF simulations carried out…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. Benson , S. Cole , C. S. Frenk , C. M. Baugh , C. G. Lacey

We present an in-depth study of surface brightness fluctuations (SBFs) in low-luminosity stellar systems. Using the MIST models, we compute theoretical predictions for absolute SBF magnitudes in the LSST, HST ACS/WFC, and proposed Roman…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-23 Johnny P. Greco , Pieter van Dokkum , Shany Danieli , Scott G. Carlsten , Charlie Conroy

We present a generic algorithm for generating Gaussian random initial conditions for cosmological simulations on periodic rectangular lattices. We show that imposing periodic boundary conditions on the real-space correlator and choosing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ue-Li Pen

We report new B-band CCD surface photometry on a sample of 76 disk galaxies brighter than B_T = 14.5 mag in the Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies, which are confined within a volume located in the outer part of the Local Supercluster.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Nanyao Y. Lu

We discuss the statistical distribution of galaxy shapes and viewing angles under the assumption of triaxiality by deprojecting observed Surface Brightness (SB) profiles of 56 Brightest Cluster Galaxies coming from a recently published…

We calculated spatial correlation functions of galaxies, $\xi(r)$, structure functions, $g(r)=1 +\xi(r)$, gradient functions, $\gamma(r)= d \log g(r)/ d \log r$, and fractal dimension functions, $D(r)= 3+\gamma(r)$, using dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 J. Einasto , G. Hütsi , T. Kuutma , M. Einasto

Modern galaxy surveys demand extensive survey volumes and resolutions surpassing current dark matter-only simulations' capabilities. To address this, many methods employ effective bias models on the dark matter field to approximate object…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-08 Daniel Forero-Sánchez , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Francesco Sinigaglia , Jose María Coloma-Nadal , Jean-Paul Kneib

We study the Globular Cluster (GC) system of the nearby elliptical galaxy M87 using the newly available dataset with accurate kinematics (Strader et al.2011). We find evidence for three distinct sub-populations of GCs in terms of colours,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Agnello , N. W. Evans , A. J. Romanowsky , J. P. Brodie

Dwarf galaxies are important tracers of small-scale cosmological structure, yet much of our knowledge about these systems comes from the limited sample of dwarf galaxies within the Local Group. To make a comprehensive inventory of dwarf…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-27 Lauren M. Foster , James E. Taylor , John P. Blakeslee

We introduce the new TNG-Cluster project, an addition to the IllustrisTNG suite of cosmological magnetohydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation. Our objective is to significantly increase the statistical sampling of the most massive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-08 Dylan Nelson , Annalisa Pillepich , Mohammadreza Ayromlou , Wonki Lee , Katrin Lehle , Eric Rohr , Nhut Truong

We present a Gaussian-process (GP) emulator for the monopole of the redshift-space halo power spectrum in $\Lambda$CDM cosmologies with massive neutrinos. The emulator is trained on 1000 COLA simulations distributed in a Latin-hypercube…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Jixin Gan , Yonghao Feng , Gong-Bo Zhao