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most citedThe FLAMINGO project: cosmological hydrodynamical simulations for large-scale structure and galaxy cluster surveys

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23 papers

astro-ph.CO2026★ 2 cited

The FLAMINGO simulations data release

John C. Helly, Robert J. McGibbon, Joop Schaye +15

We describe the public release of petabytes of data from the FLAMINGO cosmological simulations. The suite consists of hydrodynamical simulations that include radiative cooli…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 6 cited

COLIBRE: calibrating subgrid feedback in cosmological simulations that include a cold gas phase

Evgenii Chaikin, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller +17

We present the calibration of stellar and active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback in the subgrid model for the new COLIBRE hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation. COLIBRE di…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 6 cited

Assessing subhalo finders in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations

Victor J. Forouhar Moreno, John Helly, Robert McGibbon +5

Cosmological simulations are essential for inferring cosmological and galaxy population properties based on forward-modelling, but this typically requires finding the population of…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 5 cited

The FLAMINGO project: cosmology with the redshift dependence of weak gravitational lensing peaks

Jeger C. Broxterman, Matthieu Schaller, Henk Hoekstra +5

Weak gravitational lensing (WL) convergence peaks contain valuable cosmological information in the regime of non-linear collapse. Using the FLAMINGO suite of cosmological hydrodyna…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 5 cited

FLAMINGO: combining kinetic SZ effect and galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements to gauge the impact of feedback on large-scale structure

Ian G. McCarthy, Alexandra Amon, Joop Schaye +13

Energetic feedback processes associated with accreting supermassive black holes can expel gas from massive haloes and significantly alter various measures of clustering on ~Mpc sca…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 23 cited

The FLAMINGO project: Baryon effects on the matter power spectrum

Matthieu Schaller, Joop Schaye, Roi Kugel +2

The effect of baryon physics associated with galaxy formation onto the large-scale matter distribution of the Universe is a key uncertainty in the theoretical modelling required fo…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Hydrostatic mass bias for galaxy groups and clusters in the FLAMINGO simulations

Joey Braspenning, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller +2

The masses of galaxy clusters are commonly measured from X-ray observations under the assumption of hydrostatic equilibrium (HSE). This technique is known to underestimate the true…

astro-ph.CO2024

The FLAMINGO Project: An assessment of the systematic errors in the predictions of models for galaxy cluster counts used to infer cosmological parameters

Roi Kugel, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller +2

Galaxy cluster counts have historically been important for the measurement of cosmological parameters and upcoming surveys will greatly reduce the statistical errors. To exploit th…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 9 cited

Validating the clustering predictions of empirical models with the FLAMINGO simulations

Sergio Contreras, Raul E. Angulo, Jonás Chaves-Montero +3

Context. Mock galaxy catalogues are essential for correctly interpreting current and future generations of galaxy surveys. Despite their significance in galaxy formation and cosmol…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 2 cited

Cosmic Web Dynamics: Forces and Strains

Roi Kugel, Rien van de Weygaert

This study concerns an inventory of the gravitational force and tidal field induced by filaments, walls, cluster nodes and voids on Megaparsec scales and how they assemble and shap…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

The FLAMINGO Project: A comparison of galaxy cluster samples selected on mass, X-ray luminosity, Compton-Y parameter, or galaxy richness

Roi Kugel, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller +5

Galaxy clusters provide an avenue to expand our knowledge of cosmology and galaxy evolution. Because it is difficult to accurately measure the total mass of a large number of indiv…

astro-ph.CO2024

Dark photon constraints from CMB temperature anisotropies

Andres Aramburo-Garcia, Kyrylo Bondarenko, Alexey Boyarsky +6

The resonant conversion, within the inter-galactic medium, of regular photons into dark photons amplifies the anisotropy observed in the CMB, thereby imposing stringent constraints…

astro-ph.CO2024

Relativistic SZ temperatures and hydrostatic mass bias for massive clusters in the FLAMINGO simulations

Scott T. Kay, Joey Braspenning, Jens Chluba +4

The relativistic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect can be used to measure intracluster gas temperatures independently of X-ray spectroscopy. Here, we use the large-volume FLAMINGO sim…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 4 cited

The FLAMINGO project: the coupling between baryonic feedback and cosmology in light of the tension

Willem Elbers, Carlos S. Frenk, Adrian Jenkins +12

Large-scale structure surveys have reported measurements of the density of matter, , and the amplitude of clustering, , that are in tension with the values infer…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

The FLAMINGO simulation view of cluster progenitors observed in the epoch of reionization with JWST

Seunghwan Lim, Sandro Tacchella, Joop Schaye +4

Motivated by the recent JWST discovery of galaxy overdensities during the Epoch of Reionzation, we examine the physical properties of high- protoclusters and their evolution usi…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 14 cited

The FLAMINGO project: Baryonic impact on weak gravitational lensing convergence peak counts

Jeger C. Broxterman, Matthieu Schaller, Joop Schaye +12

Weak gravitational lensing convergence peaks, the local maxima in weak lensing convergence maps, have been shown to contain valuable cosmological information complementary to commo…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

The FLAMINGO Project: Galaxy clusters in comparison to X-ray observations

Joey Braspenning, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller +10

Galaxy clusters are important probes for both cosmology and galaxy formation physics. We test the cosmological, hydrodynamical FLAMINGO simulations by comparing to observations of…

astro-ph.CO2023

Inferring the dark matter splashback radius from cluster gas and observable profiles in the FLAMINGO simulations

Imogen Towler, Scott T. Kay, Joop Schaye +10

The splashback radius, coinciding with the minimum in the dark matter radial density gradient, is thought to be a universal definition of the edge of a dark matter halo. Observatio…

astro-ph.CO2023

The FLAMINGO project: revisiting the tension and the role of baryonic physics

Ian G. McCarthy, Jaime Salcido, Joop Schaye +12

A number of recent studies have found evidence for a tension between observations of large-scale structure (LSS) and the predictions of the standard model of cosmology with the cos…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 3 cited

Non-linear CMB lensing with neutrinos and baryons: FLAMINGO simulations vs. fast approximations

Amol Upadhye, Juliana Kwan, Ian G. McCarthy +11

Weak lensing of the cosmic microwave background is rapidly emerging as a powerful probe of neutrinos, dark energy, and new physics. We present a fast computation of the non-linear…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 7 cited

FLAMINGO: Calibrating large cosmological hydrodynamical simulations with machine learning

Roi Kugel, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller +17

To fully take advantage of the data provided by large-scale structure surveys, we need to quantify the potential impact of baryonic effects, such as feedback from active galactic n…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 258 cited

The FLAMINGO project: cosmological hydrodynamical simulations for large-scale structure and galaxy cluster surveys

Joop Schaye, Roi Kugel, Matthieu Schaller +17

We introduce the Virgo Consortium's FLAMINGO suite of hydrodynamical simulations for cosmology and galaxy cluster physics. To ensure the simulations are sufficiently realistic for…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 60 cited

The importance of black hole repositioning for galaxy formation simulations

Yannick M. Bahé, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller +6

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback from accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is an essential ingredient of galaxy formation simulations. The orbital evolution of SMBHs is…