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We present a study of the effect of AGN feedback on metal enrichment and thermal properties of the intracluster medium (ICM) in hydrodynamical simulations. The cosmological simulations are performed for a set of clusters using a version of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 D. Fabjan , S. Borgani , L. Tornatore , A. Saro , G. Murante , K. Dolag

We examine the correlation between the star formation rate (SFR) and black hole accretion rate (BHAR) across a suite of different AGN feedback models, using the time evolution of a merger simulation. By considering three different stages of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Robert J. Thacker , C. MacMackin , James Wurster , Alexander Hobbs

We compare the results of thirteen cosmological gasdynamical codes used to simulate the formation of a galaxy in the LCDM structure formation paradigm. The various runs differ in their hydrodynamical treatment (SPH, moving-mesh and AMR) but…

Galaxy mergers have been investigated for decades using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), but recent work highlighting inaccuracies inherent in the traditional SPH technique calls into question the reliability of previous studies. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-26 Christopher C. Hayward , Paul Torrey , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist , Mark Vogelsberger

We compare the results of two techniques used to calculate the evolution of cooling gas during galaxy formation: Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations and semi-analytic modelling. We improve upon the earlier statistical comparison…

We present simulations of galaxy formation, based on the GADGET-3 code, in which a sub-resolution model for star formation and stellar feedback is interfaced with a new model for AGN feedback. Our sub-resolution model describes a multiphase…

We investigate a new implementation of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics technique (SPH) designed to improve the realism with which galaxy formation can be simulated. In situations where cooling leads to the coexistence of phases of very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 S. Marri , S. D. M. White

We present a detailed investigation of different approaches to modeling feedback in simulations of galaxy formation. Gas-dynamic forces are evaluated using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) while star formation and supernova feedback…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-04 R. J. Thacker , H. M. P. Couchman

We analyze the basic properties of Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) produced by state of the art cosmological zoom-in hydrodynamical simulations. These simulations have been run with different sub-grid physics included. Here we focus on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Cinthia Ragone-Figueroa , Gian Luigi Granato , Giuseppe Murante , Stefano Borgani , Weiguang Cui

We present a hybrid active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback model that features three accretion disc states (the thick, thin, and slim discs at low, moderate, and super-Eddington accretion rates, respectively), and two feedback modes:…

We use the Simba suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to investigate the importance of various stellar and AGN feedback mechanisms in partitioning the cosmic baryons between the intergalactic (IGM) and circumgalactic (CGM) media…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-06 Ilya S. Khrykin , Daniele Sorini , Khee-Gan Lee , Romeel Davé

We compare several common sub-grid implementations of AGN feedback, focusing on the effects of different triggering mechanisms and the differences between thermal and kinetic feedback. Our main result is that pure thermal feedback that is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-12 Gregory R. Meece , G. Mark Voit , Brian W. O'Shea

Based on two-dimensional high resolution hydrodynamic numerical simulation, we study the mechanical and radiative feedback effects from the central AGN on the cosmological evolution of an isolated elliptical galaxy. Physical processes such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Zhaoming Gan , Feng Yuan , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Luca Ciotti , Gregory S. Novak

(Abridged) We present a method that tracks the growth of supermassive black holes (BHs) and the feedback from AGN in cosmological simulations. Our model is a substantially modified version of the one by Springel et al. (2005). Because…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. M. Booth , Joop Schaye

We investigate how the way galaxies acquire their gas across cosmic time in cosmological hydrodynamic simulations is modified by a comprehensive physical model for baryonic feedback processes. To do so, we compare two simulations -- with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Dylan Nelson , Shy Genel , Mark Vogelsberger , Volker Springel , Debora Sijacki , Paul Torrey , Lars Hernquist

We study the interaction of feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) and a multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM), in simulations including explicit stellar feedback, multi-phase cooling, accretion-disk winds, and Compton heating. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-09 Philip F. Hopkins , Paul Torrey , Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere , Eliot Quataert , Norman Murray

The interplay between cosmic gas accretion on to galaxies and galaxy mergers drives the observed morphological diversity of galaxies. By comparing the state-of-the-art hydrodynamical cosmological simulations Horizon-AGN and Horizon-noAGN,…

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

The interplay between radiative cooling of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and feedback heating governs the evolution of the universe's most massive galaxies. This paper presents simulations of feedback processes in massive galaxies showing…

The outskirts of galaxy clusters are characterised by the interplay of gas accretion and dynamical evolution involving turbulence, shocks, magnetic fields and diffuse radio emission. The density and velocity structure of the gas in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-29 Luigi Iapichino , Christoph Federrath , Ralf S. Klessen