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We present a technique for estimating the mass in the outskirts of galaxy clusters where the usual assumption of dynamical equilibrium is not valid. The method assumes that clusters form through hierarchical clustering and requires only…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Antonaldo Diaferio

Due to the inherently nonlinear nature of gravity cosmological N-body simulations have become an invaluable tool when the growth of structure is being studied and modelled closer to the present epoch. Large simulations with high dynamical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-16 Sami-Matias Niemi

We have used a combination of high resolution cosmological N-body simulations and semi-analytic modelling of galaxy formation to investigate the processes that determine the spatial distribution of galaxies in cold dark matter (CDM) models.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. J. Benson , S. Cole , C. S. Frenk , C. M. Baugh , C. G. Lacey

We examine two extreme models for the build-up of the stellar component of luminous elliptical galaxies. In one case, we assume the build-up of stars is dissipational, with centrally accreted gas radiating away its orbital and thermal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Claire N. Lackner , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We present results from recent simulations of the formation and evolution of clusters of galaxies in a LambdaCDM cosmology. These simulations contain our most physically complete input physics to date including radiative cooling, star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. M. Motl , J. O. Burns , M. L. Norman , G. L. Bryan

In this paper we present a critical discussion of the algorithms commonly used in N-body simulations of Galaxy Formation to deal with the energy equation governing heating and cooling, to model star formation and the star formation rate,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Fulvio Buonomo , Giovanni Carraro , Cesare Chiosi , Cesario Lia

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…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-23 Rachel S. Somerville , Romeel Davé

I review the results of recent N--body/hydrodynamical simulations of the formation of galaxies in hierarchical universes, with special emphasis on the structure of dark matter halos, as well as on the mass and angular momentum of gaseous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julio F. Navarro

We employ high-resolution dissipationless simulations of the concordance LCDM cosmology to model the observed luminosity dependence and evolution of galaxy clustering through most of the age of the universe, from z~5 to z~0. We use a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Charlie Conroy , Risa H. Wechsler , Andrey V. Kravtsov

We present hydrodynamical N-body simulations of clusters of galaxies with feedback taken from semi-analytic models of galaxy formation. The advantage of this technique is that the source of feedback in our simulations is a population of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 C. J. Short , P. A. Thomas

Two methods generating warped galaxies with N-body simulations are presented. One uses an external potential as a disturber while the other is based on material accretion. The results of both methods are compared. A particular attention is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yves Revaz , Daniel Pfenniger

We use N-body simulations combined with semi-analytic models to compute the clustering properties of modeled galaxies at z~3, and confront these predictions with the clustering properties of the observed population of Lyman-break galaxies…

Cosmologists at the Institute of Computational Cosmology, Durham University, have developed a state of the art model of galaxy formation known as Galform, intended to contribute to our understanding of the formation, growth and subsequent…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-05-21 Ian Vernon , Michael Goldstein , Richard Bower

Despite having entered the era of "precision cosmology," the formation of galaxies within the favored CDM cosmological paradigm remains problematic. By relating our N-body/smooth particle hydro-dynamical simulation to an extensive range of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. B. Brook , H. Martel , B. K. Gibson , D. Kawata

We model the galaxy formation in a series of high-resolution N-body simulations using the semi-analytical approach. Unlike many earlier investigations based on semi-analytical models, we make use of the subhalos resolved in the $N$-body…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-19 X. Kang , Y. P. Jing , H. J. Mo , G. Boerner

Cosmological (LambdaCDM) TreeSPH simulations of the formation and evolution of galaxy groups and clusters have been performed. The simulations invoke star formation, chemical evolution with non-instantaneous recycling, metal dependent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alessio D. Romeo , Laura Portinari , Jesper Sommer-Larsen

High resolution gravity plus smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations are used to study the formation of galaxies within the context of hierarchical structure formation. The simulations have sufficient dynamic range to resolve from ten…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F J Summers

We analyze the properties of a disk galaxy simulated with unprecedented numerical resolution in the Lambda CDM cosmogony. The galaxy is assembled through a number of high-redshift mergers followed by a period of quiescent accretion after…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mario G. Abadi , Julio F. Navarro , Matthias Steinmetz , Vincent R. Eke

The theory of structure formation predicts that galaxies form within extended massive dark matter halos built from smaller pieces that collided and merged, resulting in the hierarchy of galaxies, groups, and clusters observed today. Here we…

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