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

258 citations · 318 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The star-forming past and quenching of brightest cluster galaxies in TNG-Cluster

Sunna Gottschewski, Joey Braspenning, Annalisa Pillepich +2

The Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) in the most massive galaxy clusters of our Universe are, at present, mostly quiescent, elliptical, and red. However, their formation histories…

astro-ph.GA2026

The host halo masses of AGNs and quasars at with TNG-Cluster, FLAMINGO and other cosmological galaxy simulations

Akanksha Kapahtia, Annalisa Pillepich, Joey Braspenning +5

Most observations and clustering analyses suggest that quasars inhabit a narrow range of dark-matter halo masses ( M) across cosmic time (). Recen…

astro-ph.GA2026

Bulk vs. turbulent motions at the centres of galaxy clusters: AGN-driven turbulence according to TNG-Cluster

Bipradeep Saha, Annalisa Pillepich, Joey Braspenning +3

The highly dynamic intracluster medium (ICM) influences cluster thermodynamic evolution and probes key physical processes. Quantifying the non-thermal motions is therefore essentia…

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.CO2026★ 1 cited

The FLAMINGO Project: Exploring the X-ray--cosmic-shear cross-correlation as a probe of large-scale structure

William McDonald, Joop Schaye, Konrad Kuijken +3

Baryonic feedback processes associated with galaxy formation directly influence the large-scale structure by redistributing gas. Recent measurements of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovi…

astro-ph.GA2026

MUSEQuBES: Probing Anisotropies in Gas and Metal Distributions in the Circumgalactic Medium

Sayak Dutta, Sowgat Muzahid, Joop Schaye +9

We investigate the azimuthal dependence of HI and OVI-bearing gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of 113 isolated galaxies in the redshift range , including 91 new…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

The impact of strong feedback on galaxy group scaling relations

D. Eckert, R. Seppi, J. Braspenning +16

Feedback from active supermassive black holes alters the distribution of matter in the Universe by injecting energy in the neighbouring hot gaseous medium, which leads to ejection…

astro-ph.CO2025

The origin of scatter in the X-ray luminosity - halo mass relation of galaxy clusters

Joey Braspenning, Joop Schaye, Annalisa Pillepich +1

Galaxy groups and clusters are excellent probes of large-scale structure and are shaped by some of the most energetic physical processes in the Universe. They follow a tight scalin…

astro-ph.GA2025

Mass Proxy Quality of Massive Halo Properties in the IllustrisTNG and FLAMINGO Simulations: I. Hot Gas

Eddie Aljamal, August E. Evrard, Arya Farahi +5

We examine scale and redshift dependence of mass-property relations (MPRs) for five hot gas properties of two large group- and cluster-scale halo samples realized by the IllustrisT…

astro-ph.CO2025

Characterising galaxy cluster scaling relations as cosmic isotropy tracers using FLAMINGO simulations

Yujie He, Konstantinos Migkas, Joop Schaye +2

The standard cosmological model, CDM, assumes isotropy on large cosmic scales. However, recent studies using galaxy cluster scaling relations have reported an apparent ani…

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★ 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

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.GA2024★ 9 cited

MAGAZ3NE: Massive, Extremely Dusty Galaxies at Lead to Photometric Overestimation of Number Densities of the Most Massive Galaxies at

Ben Forrest, M. C. Cooper, Adam Muzzin +17

We present rest-frame optical spectra from Keck/MOSFIRE and Keck/NIRES of 16 candidate ultramassive galaxies targeted as part of the Massive Ancient Galaxies at Near-Infrared…

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.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.GA2022★ 9 cited

Sensitivity of non-radiative cloud-wind interactions to the hydrodynamics solver

Joey Braspenning, Joop Schaye, Josh Borrow +1

Cloud-wind interactions are common in the interstellar and circumgalactic media. Many studies have used simulations of such interactions to investigate the effect of particular phy…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 2 cited

MCMC generation of cosmological fields far beyond Gaussianity

Joey R. Braspenning, Elena Sellentin

Structure formation in our Universe creates non-Gaussian random fields that will soon be observed over almost the entire sky by the Euclid satellite, the Vera-Rubin observatory, an…