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Modelling star-forming galaxies is crucial for upcoming observations of large-scale matter and galaxy distributions with galaxy redshift surveys and line intensity mapping (LIM). We introduce CosmoGLINT (Cosmological Generative model for…

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Modeling galaxy formation in a cosmological context presents one of the greatest challenges in astrophysics today, due to the vast range of scales and numerous physical processes involved. Here we review the current status of models that…

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We discuss early results from the first large N-body/hydrodynamical simulation to resolve the formation of galaxies in a cold dark matter universe. The simulation follows the formation of galaxies by gas cooling within dark halos of mass a…

I review the current state of our understanding of the galaxy formation and evolution process from the modeler's perspective. With the advent of the cold dark matter model and the support of fast computers and advanced simulation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Steinmetz

Dark matter-only simulations are able to produce the cosmic structure of a $\Lambda$CDM universe, at a much lower computational cost than more physically motivated hydrodynamical simulations. However, it is not clear how well smaller…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-12 Roan Haggar , Frazer R. Pearce , Meghan E. Gray , Alexander Knebe , Gustavo Yepes

Galaxies play a key role in our endeavor to understand how structure formation proceeds in the Universe. For any precision study of cosmology or galaxy formation, there is a strong demand for huge sets of realistic mock galaxy catalogs,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-16 Chen-Yu Chuang , Christian Kragh Jespersen , Yen-Ting Lin , Shirley Ho , Shy Genel

We present a method for populating dark matter simulations with haloes of mass below the resolution limit. It is based on stochastically sampling a field derived from the density field of the halo catalogue, using constraints from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Sylvain de la Torre , John A. Peacock

Using N-body+hydro simulations we study relations between the local environments of galaxies on 0.5 Mpc scale and properties of the luminous components of galaxies. Our numerical simulations include effects of star formation and supernova…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Elizondo , G. Yepes , R. Kates , A. Klypin

Image simulations are essential tools for preparing and validating the analysis of current and future wide-field optical surveys. However, the galaxy models used as the basis for these simulations are typically limited to simple parametric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Francois Lanusse , Rachel Mandelbaum , Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Chun-Liang Li , Peter Freeman , Barnabas Poczos

We address the issue of numerical convergence in cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations using a suite of runs drawn from the EAGLE project. Our simulations adopt subgrid models that produce realistic galaxy populations at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-08 Aaron D. Ludlow , Joop Schaye , Matthieu Schaller , Richard Bower

A timely combination of new theoretical ideas and observational discoveries has brought about significant advances in our understanding of cosmic evolution. Computer simulations have played a key role in these developments by providing the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-09 Carlos S. Frenk

Galaxies are biased tracers of the underlying cosmic web, which is dominated by dark matter components that cannot be directly observed. Galaxy formation simulations can be used to study the relationship between dark matter density fields…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-19 Victoria Ono , Core Francisco Park , Nayantara Mudur , Yueying Ni , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

The development of numerical N -body simulations have allowed to study formation process and evolution of galaxies at different scales. This paper presents the fundamental concepts of N-body systems applied to the cosmological evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-12 Jazhiel Chacon , J. Alberto Vazquez , Ruslan Gabbasov

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 present a method for generating suites of dark-matter halo catalogs with only a few $N$-body simulations, focusing on making small changes to the underlying cosmology of a simulation with high precision. In the context of blind…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-26 Lehman H. Garrison , Daniel J. Eisenstein

We study the formation and evolution of dark galaxies using the IllustrisTNG cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. We first identify dark galaxies with stellar-to-total mass ratios, $M_* / M_{\text{tot}}$, smaller than $10^{-4}$, which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-17 Gain Lee , Ho Seong Hwang , Jaehyun Lee , Jihye Shin , Hyunmi Song

The galaxy luminosity function and galaxy stellar mass function are fundamental statistics in the testing of galaxy formation models. Theoretical predictions based on cosmological simulations can deviate from observations, especially at the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-18 Lin Tang , Weipeng Lin , Yang Wang , N. R. Napolitano

The latest observations of molecular gas and the atomic hydrogen content of local and high-redshift galaxies, coupled with how these correlate with star formation activity, have revolutionized our ideas about how to model star formation in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-19 Claudia del P. Lagos , Cedric G. Lacey , Carlton M. Baugh

LCDM is remarkably successful in predicting the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure, and LCDM parameters have been determined with only mild tensions between different types of observations. Hydrodynamical simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Joel R. Primack

To understand the universe and to interpret the cosmological parameters governing its evolution it is necessary to contrast the data from galaxy surveys with simulation. Typically it entails using computationally expensive N -body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-02 Tolga Yapici , Zachery Brown , Regina Demina , Segev BenZvi