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Gravitational redshifts and other relativistic effects are beginning to be studied in the context of galaxy clustering. Distortions consistent with those expected in General Relativity have been measured in galaxy cluster redshift profiles…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-18 Hongyu Zhu , Shadab Alam , Rupert A. C. Croft , Shirley Ho , Elena Giusarma

The core structure of galaxy clusters is fundamentally important. Even though self-gravitating systems have no stable equilibrium state due to their negative heat capacity, numerical simulations find density profiles which are universal in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Matthias Bartelmann , Marceau Limousin , Massimo Meneghetti , Robert Schmidt

Baryon fraction in clusters, combined with constraints from primordial nucleosynthesis is currently used to provide a robust upper limit on the cosmological density parameter $\Omega_0$. Current analyses lead to gas fractions at virial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. Sadat , A. Blanchard

The properties of galaxies are intricately linked to the characteristics of their host dark-matter haloes. We use a suite of controlled simulations of isolated galaxies to quantify how halo spin, concentration, inner density profile, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-28 Guangze Sun , Fangzhou Jiang , Jing Wang

Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation often rely on prescriptions for star formation and feedback that depend on halo properties such as halo mass, central over-density, and virial temperature. In this paper we address the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Trenti , B. D. Smith , E. J. Hallman , S. W. Skillman , J. M. Shull

We use cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to investigate how the inclusion of physical processes relevant to galaxy formation (star formation, metal-line cooling, stellar winds, supernovae and feedback from Active Galactic Nuclei, AGN)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-09 Marco Velliscig , Marcel P. van Daalen , Joop Schaye , Ian G. McCarthy , Marcello Cacciato , Amandine M. C. Le Brun , Claudio Dalla Vecchia

We study the effect of baryonic processes on the halo mass function in the galaxy cluster mass range using a catalogue of 153 high resolution cosmological hydrodynamical simulations performed with the AMR code ramses. We use the results of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Davide Martizzi , Irshad Mohammed , Romain Teyssier , Ben Moore

We study the dissipative effects of baryon physics on cosmic statistics at small scales using a cosmological simulation of a (50 Mpc/h)^3 volume of the universe. The MareNostrum simulation was performed using the AMR code RAMSES, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Guillet , R. Teyssier , S. Colombi

We study the baryon mass fraction in a set of hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters performed using the Tree+SPH code GADGET-2. We investigate the dependence of the baryon fraction upon the radiative cooling, star formation,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Ettori , K. Dolag , S. Borgani , G. Murante

We measure the baryons contained in both the stellar and hot gas components for twelve galaxy clusters and groups at z~0.1 with M=1-5e14 Msun. This paper improves upon our previous work through the addition of XMM data, enabling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Anthony H. Gonzalez , Suresh Sivanandam , Ann I. Zabludoff , Dennis Zaritsky

The distribution of galaxies, halo abundance, and peculiar velocities are influenced by non-linear gravitational interactions, making the study of non-linear evolution crucial for accurate cosmological predictions. We explore these aspects…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-24 Swati Gavas

Mock galaxy catalogues are often constructed from dark-matter-only simulations based on the galaxy-halo connection. Although modern mocks can reproduce galaxy clustering to some extent, the absence of baryons affects the spatial and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Sergio Contreras , Raul E. Angulo , Sownak Bose , Boryana Hadzhiyska , Lars Hernquist , Francisco Maion , Ruediger Pakmor , Volker Springel

We use the NIHAO simulations to investigate the effects of baryonic physics on the time evolution of Dark Matter central density profiles. The sample is made of $\approx 70$ independent high resolution hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy…

The physics of baryons in halos, and their subsequent influence on the total matter phase space, has a rich phenomenology and must be well understood in order to pursue a vast set of questions in both cosmology and astrophysics. We use the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-21 Mufan Shao , Dhayaa Anbajagane , Chihway Chang

Systematic uncertainties in the mass measurement of galaxy clusters limit the cosmological constraining power of future surveys that will detect more than $10^5$ clusters. Previously, we argued that aperture masses can be inferred more…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Stijn N. B. Debackere , Henk Hoekstra , Joop Schaye

With the ever increasing size and complexity of fully self-consistent simulations of galaxy formation within the framework of the cosmic web, the demands upon object finders for these simulations has simultaneously grown. To this extent we…

We carry out ``full-physics'' hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation in the normal-branch Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati (nDGP) braneworld model using a new modified version of the {\sc Arepo} code and the IllustrisTNG galaxy formation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-15 César Hernández-Aguayo , Christian Arnold , Baojiu Li , Carlton M. Baugh

We quantify two main pathways through which baryonic physics biases cluster count cosmology. We create mock cluster samples that reproduce the baryon content inferred from X-ray observations. We link clusters to their counterparts in a dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-22 Stijn N. B. Debackere , Joop Schaye , Henk Hoekstra

We discuss an extended set of Tree+SPH simulations of galaxy clusters, with the goal of investigating the interplay between numerical resolution effects and star-formation/feedback processes. The simulated clusters span the mass range…

The distribution of baryons provides a significant way to understand the formation of galaxy clusters by revealing the details of its internal structure and changes over time. In this paper, we present theoretical studies on the scaled…