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Numerical hydro-N-body simulations are very important tools for making theoretical predictions for the formation of galaxy clusters. They show that the atmospheres of clusters of galaxies have quite complex angular and thermal structures.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Gardini , E. Rasia , P. Mazzotta , G. Tormen , S. De Grandi , L. Moscardini

Reliable extraction of cosmological information from clustering measurements of galaxy surveys requires estimation of the error covariance matrices of observables. The accuracy of covariance matrices is limited by our ability to generate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-29 Mohammadjavad Vakili , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Yu Feng , Gustavo Yepes , Cheng Zhao , Chia-Hsun Chuang , ChangHoon Hahn

Galaxy clusters are important cosmological probes that have helped to establish the $\mathrm{\Lambda}$CDM paradigm as the standard model of cosmology. However, recent tensions between different types of high-accuracy data highlight the need…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Nikolaos Triantafyllou , Giorgos Korkidis , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Paolo Bonfini

Most hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy cluster formation carried out to date have tried to model the cosmic gas as an ideal, inviscid fluid, where only a small amount of (unwanted) numerical viscosity is present, arising from practical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Debora Sijacki , Volker Springel

We study galaxy clustering using halo models, where gravitational clustering is described in terms of dark matter halos. At small scales, clustering statistics are dominated by halo density profiles, whereas at large scales, correlations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Roman Scoccimarro , Ravi K. Sheth , Lam Hui , Bhuvnesh Jain

We apply machine learning, a powerful method for uncovering complex correlations in high-dimensional data, to the galaxy-halo connection of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. The mapping between galaxy and halo variables is stochastic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-16 Richard Stiskalek , Deaglan J. Bartlett , Harry Desmond , Dhayaa Anbajagane

This is the first attempt to construct detailed X-ray spectra of clusters of galaxies from the results of high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations and simulate X-ray observations in order to study velocity fields of the intracluster medium…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yutaka Fujita , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Keiichi Wada , Tae Furusho

Measurements of the shear induced by weak gravitational lensing around galaxy cluster lines of sight are the gold standard for calibrating cluster observable-mass relations, thereby enabling a robust and precise inference of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 S. Bocquet , A. Fumagalli , C. T. Davies , K. Dolag , S. Grandis , J. J. Mohr

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

Recently, rapid observational and theoretical progress has established that black holes (BHs) play a decisive role in the formation and evolution of individual galaxies as well as galaxy groups and clusters. In particular, there is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-20 Ewald Puchwein , Debora Sijacki , Volker Springel

We use giga-particle N-body simulations to study galaxy cluster populations in Hubble Volumes of LCDM (Omega_m=0.3, Omega_Lambda=0.7) and tCDM (Omega_m=1) world models. Mapping past light-cones of locations in the computational space, we…

The increase in the observed volume in cosmological surveys imposes various challenges on simulation preparations. Firstly, the volume of the simulations required increases proportionally to the observations. However, large-volume…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Daniel Forero-Sánchez , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Sergio Rodríguez-Torres , Gustavo Yepes , Stefan Gottlöber , Cheng Zhao

The mass of galaxy clusters estimated from weak-lensing observations is affected by projection effects, leading to a systematic underestimation compared to the true cluster mass, varying with both mass and redshift. The magnitude depends on…

The combination of galaxy-galaxy lensing and galaxy clustering data has the potential to simultaneously constrain both the cosmological and galaxy formation models. In this paper we perform a comprehensive exploration of these signals and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Laura Marian , Robert E. Smith , Raul E. Angulo

We present a study of the galaxy population predicted by hydrodynamical simulations for a set of 19 galaxy clusters based on the GADGET-2 Tree+SPH code. These simulations include gas cooling, star formation, a detailed treatment of stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Saro , S. Borgani , L. Tornatore , K. Dolag , G. Murante , A. Biviano , F. Calura , S. Charlot

Precise determination of galaxy cluster masses is crucial for establishing reliable mass-observable scaling relations in cluster cosmology. We employ graph neural networks (GNNs) to estimate galaxy cluster masses from radially sampled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Asif Iqbal , Subhabrata Majumdar , Elena Rasia , Gabriel W. Pratt , Daniel de Andres , Jean-Baptiste Melin , Weiguang Cui

The thermal properties of hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters are usually compared to observations by relying on the emission-weighted temperature T_ew, instead of on the spectroscopic X-ray temperature T_spec, which is obtained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Rasia , P. Mazzotta , S. Borgani , L. Moscardini , K. Dolag , G. Tormen , A. Diaferio , G. Murante

Identifying galaxies in hydrodynamical simulations is a difficult task, particularly in regions of high density such as galaxy groups and clusters. We present a new scale-free shape-independent algorithm to robustly and accurately identify…

We use the Millennium Simulation database to compare how different versions of the Durham and Munich semi-analytical galaxy formation models populate dark matter haloes with galaxies. The models follow the same physical processes but differ…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Sergio Contreras , Carlton Baugh , Peder Norberg , Nelson Padilla

I present a large set of high resolution simulations, called CosmicGrowth Simulations, which were generated with either 8.6 billion or 29 billion particles. As the nominal cosmological model that can match nearly all observations on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-28 Y. P. Jing