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Cosmological simulations are essential for inferring cosmological and galaxy population properties based on forward-modelling, but this typically requires finding the population of (sub)haloes and galaxies that they contain. The properties…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-04 Victor J. Forouhar Moreno , John Helly , Robert McGibbon , Joop Schaye , Matthieu Schaller , Jiaxin Han , Roi Kugel , Yannick M. Bahe

The gas mass fraction of galaxy groups and clusters is a key physical quantity for constraining the impact of feedback processes on large-scale structure. While several modern cosmological simulations use the gas fraction-halo mass relation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Emily E. Costello , Ian G. McCarthy , Jaime Salcido , John C. Helly , Robert J. McGibbon , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

The formation of galaxy clusters in hierarchically clustering universes is investigated by means of high resolution N-body simulations. The simulations are performed using a newly developed multi-mass scheme which combines a PM code with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Huss , B. Jain , M. Steinmetz

We review the theory of the formation of galaxy clusters and discuss their role as cosmological probes. We begin with the standard cosmological framework where we discuss the origin of the CDM matter power spectrum and the growth of density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael L. Norman

The rapidly growing statistical precision of galaxy surveys has lead to a need for ever-more precise predictions of the observables used to constrain cosmological and galaxy formation models. The primary avenue through which such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Joseph DeRose , Risa H. Wechsler , Jeremy L. Tinker , Matthew R. Becker , Yao-Yuan Mao , Thomas McClintock , Sean McLaughlin , Eduardo Rozo , Zhongxu Zhai

One of the key factors influencing galaxy clustering in the nonlinear regime is galaxy assembly bias, which describes the dependence of galaxy clustering on halo properties beyond halo mass. We study this effect by analyzing galaxy samples…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Sergio García-Moreno , Jonás Chaves-Montero

The early release science results from $\textit{JWST}$ have yielded an unexpected abundance of high-redshift luminous galaxies that seems to be in tension with current theories of galaxy formation. However, it is currently difficult to draw…

We use the BAHAMAS and MACSIS hydrodynamic simulations to quantify the impact of baryons on the mass distribution and dynamics of massive galaxy clusters, as well as the bias in X-ray and weak lensing mass estimates. These simulations use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Monique A. Henson , David J. Barnes , Scott T. Kay , Ian G. McCarthy , Joop Schaye

We present a new approach to study galaxy evolution in a cosmological context. We combine cosmological merger trees and semi-analytic models of galaxy formation to provide the initial conditions for multi-merger hydrodynamic simulations. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Benjamin P. Moster , Andrea V. Macciò , Rachel S. Somerville

Upcoming large galaxy surveys will subject the standard cosmological model, $\Lambda$CDM, to new precision tests. These can be tightened considerably if theoretical models of galaxy formation are available that can predict galaxy clustering…

We investigate the properties of the intracluster medium (ICM) that forms within N-body/hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters in a \LambdaCDM cosmology. When radiative cooling and a simple model for galactic feedback are included,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Scott T. Kay , Peter A. Thomas , Adrian Jenkins , Frazer R. Pearce

Self-consistently modeling baryonic effects in survey-scale cosmological simulations has become increasingly important as the diversity, precision, and statistical reach of modern observations continue to improve. The advent of exascale…

We introduce the new cosmological simulation project cosmosTNG, a first-of-its-kind suite of constrained galaxy formation simulations for the universe at Cosmic Noon ($z\sim 2$). cosmosTNG simulates a $0.2$ deg$^2$ patch of the COSMOS field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 Chris Byrohl , Dylan Nelson , Benjamin Horowitz , Khee-Gan Lee , Annalisa Pillepich

In this review, we describe our current understanding of cluster formation: from the general picture of collapse from initial density fluctuations in an expanding Universe to detailed simulations of cluster formation including the effects…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Andrey Kravtsov , Stefano Borgani

Cosmological simulations are a powerful tool to advance our understanding of galaxy formation and many simulations model key properties of real galaxies. A question that naturally arises for such simulations in light of high-quality…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-10 Lingyi Zhou , Stefan T. Radev , William H. Oliver , Aura Obreja , Zehao Jin , Tobias Buck

Results from hydrodynamical SPH simulations of galaxy clusters are used to investigate the dependence of the final cluster X-ray properties on the numerical resolution and the assumed models for the physical gas processes. Two different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Valdarnini

Tidal features provide signatures of recent mergers and offer a unique insight into the assembly history of galaxies. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will enable an unprecedentedly large survey of…

Precise and accurate predictions of the halo mass function for cluster mass scales in $w\nu{\rm CDM}$ cosmologies are crucial for extracting robust and unbiased cosmological information from upcoming galaxy cluster surveys. Here, we present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-31 Delon Shen , Nickolas Kokron , Joseph DeRose , Jeremy Tinker , Risa H. Wechsler , Arka Banerjee , the Aemulus Collaboration

Galaxy clusters are excellent cosmological probes provided that their formation and evolution within the large scale environment are precisely understood. Therefore studies with simulated galaxy clusters have flourished. However detailed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Jenny G. Sorce

We perform an ensemble of $N$-body simulations with $2048^3$ particles for 101 flat $w$CDM cosmological models sampled based on a maximin-distance Sliced Latin Hypercube Design. By using the halo catalogs extracted at multiple redshifts in…