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Modelling the growth histories of specific galaxies often involves generating the entire population of objects that arise in a given cosmology and selecting systems with appropriate properties. This approach is highly inefficient when…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-24 Ethan O. Nadler , Andrew Benson , Trey Driskell , Xiaolong Du , Vera Gluscevic

Taking advantage of a high-resolution simulation coupled with a state-of-art semi-analytic model of galaxy formation, we probe the mass segregation of galaxies in groups and clusters, focusing on which physical mechanisms are driving it. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-26 Emanuele Contini , Xi Kang

We examine whether large-scale environment affects the mass assembly history of their central galaxies. To facilitate this, we constructed dark matter halo merger trees from a cosmological N-body simulation and calculated the formation and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-02 Intae Jung , Jaehyun Lee , Sukyoung K. Yi

We investigate the evolution of the galaxy merger rate predicted by two semi-analytical galaxy formation models implemented on the Millennium Simulation of dark matter structure growth. The fraction of merging galaxy pairs at each time-step…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-21 Abilio Mateus

In the CDM cosmological framework structures grow from merging with smaller structures. Merging should have observable effects on galaxies including destroying disks and creating spheroids. This proceeding aims to give a brief overview of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-31 Ariyeh H. Maller

Both numerical hydrodynamic and semi-analytic cosmological models of galaxy formation struggle to match observed star formation histories of galaxies in low mass halos (M$_{\rm{H}} \lesssim 10^{11} M_\odot$), predicting more star formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Catherine E. White , Rachel S. Somerville , Henry C. Ferguson

Merger trees track the evolution of halos across multiple snapshots. They assign for halos of a particular snapshot, the set of halos from previous snapshots they possibly originated from. In this work, Association rule analysis a well…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 B. Hareesh Gautham , Rahul Nigam

We construct a physically motivated model for predicting the properties of the remnants of gaseous galaxy mergers, given the properties of the progenitors and the orbit. The model is calibrated using a large suite of SPH merger simulations.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Covington , A. Dekel , T. J. Cox , P. Jonsson , J. R. Primack

The standard treatment of cooling in Cold Dark Matter halos assumes that all of the gas within a ``cooling radius'' cools and contracts monolithically to fuel galaxy formation. Here we take into account the expectation that the hot gas in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Ariyeh H. Maller , James S. Bullock

In this work, we compare large scale structure observables for stellar mass selected samples at $z=0$, as predicted by two galaxy models, the hydrodynamical simulation IllustrisTNG and the Santa-Cruz semi-analytic model (SC-SAM). Although…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Sonya Liu , Rachel S. Somerville , Austen Gabrielpillai , Sownak Bose , Daniel Eisenstein , Lars Hernquist

We use semi-analytic models of galaxy formation combined with high resolution N-body simulations to make predictions for galaxy-dark matter correlations and apply them to galaxy-galaxy lensing. We analyze cross-correlation spectra between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jacek Guzik , Uros Seljak

Galaxy cluster mergers drive powerful shock fronts that heat the intracluster medium (ICM) and accelerate particles, redistributing the energy in a merger. A665 is one of only a few clusters with such a powerful shock ($\mathcal{M}\sim$3),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-21 Christian Norseth , Daniel R. Wik , Craig L. Sarazin , Ming Sun , Fabio Gastaldello

Semi-analytic models (SAMs) systematically predict higher stellar-mass scatter at a given halo mass than hydrodynamical simulations and most empirical models. Our goal is to investigate the physical origin of this scatter by exploring…

Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations as well as observations indicate that spiral galaxies are comprised of five different components: dark matter halo, stellar disc, stellar bulge, gaseous disc and gaseous halo. While the first four…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Benjamin P. Moster , Andrea V. Maccio' , Rachel S. Somerville , Thorsten Naab , Thomas J. Cox

An XMM-Newton imaging spectroscopy analysis of the galaxy cluster A1644 is presented. A1644 is a complex merging system consisting of a main and a sub cluster. A trail of cool, metal-rich gas has been discovered close to the sub cluster.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Thomas H. Reiprich , Craig L. Sarazin , Joshua C. Kempner , Eric Tittley

We extend existing semi-analytic models of galaxy formation to track atomic and molecular gas in disk galaxies. Simple recipes for processes such as cooling, star formation, supernova feedback, and chemical enrichment of the stars and gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-12 Jian Fu , Qi Guo , Guinevere Kauffmann , Mark R. Krumholz

Semi-analytic models are a widely used approach to simulate galaxy properties within a cosmological framework, relying on simplified yet physically motivated prescriptions. They have also proven to be an efficient alternative for generating…

We examine the reliability of the merger trees generated for the Monte-Carlo modeling of galaxy formation. In particular we focus on the cold gas fraction predicted from the merger trees with different assumptions on the progenitor…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Mamoru Shimizu , Tetsu Kitayama , Shin Sasaki , Yasushi Suto

We use the cosmo-OWLS suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to investigate the scatter and evolution of the global hot gas properties of large simulated populations of galaxy groups and clusters. Our aim is to compare the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Amandine M. C. Le Brun , Ian G. McCarthy , Joop Schaye , Trevor J. Ponman

A modified version of the extended Press-Schechter model for the growth of dark-matter haloes was introduced in two previous papers with the aim at explaining the mass-density relation shown by haloes in high-resolution cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Raig , G. Gonzalez-Casado , E. Salvador-Sole