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Higher Order Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Sampling for Cosmological Large-Scale Structure Analysis
Mónica Hernández-Sánchez, Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Metin Ata +1
We investigate higher order symplectic integration strategies within Bayesian cosmic density field reconstruction methods. In particular, we study the fourth-order discretisation o…
The Hydrangea simulations: galaxy formation in and around massive clusters
Yannick M. Bahé, David J. Barnes, Claudio Dalla Vecchia +12
We introduce the Hydrangea simulations, a suite of 24 cosmological hydrodynamic zoom-in simulations of massive galaxy clusters (M_200c = 10^14-10^15 M_Sun) with baryon particle mas…
The Cluster-EAGLE project: global properties of simulated clusters with resolved galaxies
David J. Barnes, Scott T. Kay, Yannick M. Bahe +10
We introduce the Cluster-EAGLE (C-EAGLE) simulation project, a set of cosmological hydrodynamical zoom simulations of the formation of galaxy clusters in the mass range $10^{1…
A numerical study of interactions and stellar bars
Inma Martinez-Valpuesta, J. Alfonso L. Aguerri, A. César González-García +2
For several decades it has been known that stellar bars in disc galaxies can be triggered by interactions, or by internal processes such as dynamical instabilities. In this work, w…
Barred galaxies in the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamical simulation
David G. Algorry, Julio F. Navarro, Mario G. Abadi +8
We examine the properties of barred disc galaxies in a LCDM cosmological hydrodynamical simulation from the EAGLE project. Our study follows the formation of 269 discs identified a…
The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmological implications of the Fourier space wedges of the final sample
Jan Niklas Grieb, Ariel G. Sánchez, Salvador Salazar-Albornoz +25
We extract cosmological information from the anisotropic power spectrum measurements from the recently completed Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), extending the conce…
Supermassive black holes in the EAGLE Universe. Revealing the observables of their growth
Yetli Rosas-Guevara, Richard G. Bower, Joop Schaye +5
We investigate the evolution of supermassive black holes in the `Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments' (EAGLE) cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. The large…
The Aurora radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of reionization: calibration and first results
Andreas H. Pawlik, Alireza Rahmati, Joop Schaye +2
We introduce a new suite of radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation and reionization called Aurora. The Aurora simulations make use of a spatially adaptive radiati…
The EAGLE simulations of galaxy formation: the importance of the hydrodynamics scheme
Matthieu Schaller, Claudio Dalla Vecchia, Joop Schaye +5
We present results from a subset of simulations from the "Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments" (EAGLE) suite in which the formulation of the hydrodynamics sch…
nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations I: dark matter & non-radiative models
Federico Sembolini, Gustavo Yepes, Frazer R. Pearce +24
We have simulated the formation of a galaxy cluster in a CDM universe using twelve different codes modeling only gravity and non-radiative hydrodynamics (\art, \arepo, \hydra\ a…
The First Billion Years Project: The escape fraction of ionizing photons in the epoch of reionization
Jan-Pieter Paardekooper, Sadegh Khochfar, Claudio Dalla Vecchia
Proto-galaxies forming in low-mass dark matter haloes are thought to provide the majority of ionizing photons needed to reionize the Universe, due to their high escape fractions of…
The EAGLE simulations of galaxy formation: calibration of subgrid physics and model variations
Robert A. Crain, Joop Schaye, Richard G. Bower +11
We present results from thirteen cosmological simulations that explore the parameter space of the "Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments" (EAGLE) simulation pro…
Baryon effects on the internal structure of LCDM halos in the EAGLE simulations
Matthieu Schaller, Carlos S. Frenk, Richard G. Bower +7
We investigate the internal structure and density profiles of halos of mass in the Evolution and Assembly of Galaxies and their Environment (EAGLE) simula…
The effect of baryons on the inner density profiles of rich clusters
Matthieu Schaller, Carlos S. Frenk, Richard G. Bower +7
We use the "Evolution and assembly of galaxies and their environments" (EAGLE) cosmological simulation to investigate the effect of baryons on the density profiles of rich galaxy c…
The EAGLE project: Simulating the evolution and assembly of galaxies and their environments
Joop Schaye, Robert A. Crain, Richard G. Bower +19
We introduce the Virgo Consortium's EAGLE project, a suite of hydrodynamical simulations that follow the formation of galaxies and black holes in representative volumes. We discuss…
Bent by baryons: the low mass galaxy-halo relation
Till Sawala, Carlos S. Frenk, Azadeh Fattahi +11
The relation between galaxies and dark matter halos is of vital importance for evaluating theoretical predictions of structure formation and galaxy formation physics. We show that…
The First Billion Years project: birthplaces of direct collapse black holes
Bhaskar Agarwal, Claudio Dalla Vecchia, Jarrett L. Johnson +2
We investigate the environment in which direct-collapse black holes may form by analysing a cosmological, hydrodynamical simulation that is part of the First Billion Years project.…
The First Billion Years project: dark matter haloes going from contraction to expansion and back again
Andrew J. Davis, Sadegh Khochfar, Claudio Dalla Vecchia
We study the effect of baryons on the inner dark matter profile of the first galaxies using the First Billion Years simulation between z=16-6 before secular evolution sets in. Usin…
The Impact of Different Physical Processes on the Statistics of Lyman-limit and Damped Lyman-alpha Absorbers
Gabriel Altay, Tom Theuns, Joop Schaye +2
We compute the z = 3 neutral hydrogen column density distribution function f(NHI) for 19 simulations drawn from the OWLS project using a post-processing correction for self-shieldi…
Physical properties of simulated galaxy populations at z=2 - II. Effects of cosmology, reionization and ISM physics
Marcel R. Haas, Joop Schaye, C. M. Booth +4
We use hydrodynamical simulations from the OWLS project to investigate the dependence of the physical properties of galaxy populations at redshift 2 on the assumed star formation l…
Physical properties of simulated galaxy populations at z=2 - I. Effect of metal-line cooling and feedback from star formation and AGN
Marcel R. Haas, Joop Schaye, C. M. Booth +4
We use hydrodynamical simulations from the OWLS project to investigate the dependence of the physical properties of galaxy populations at redshift 2 on metal-line cooling and feedb…
Ubiquitous seeding of supermassive black holes by direct collapse
Bhaskar Agarwal, Sadegh Khochfar, Jarrett L. Johnson +3
We study for the first time the environment of massive black hole (BH) seeds (~10^4-5 Msun) formed via the direct collapse of pristine gas clouds in massive haloes (>10^7 Msun) at…
Simulating galactic outflows with thermal supernova feedback
Claudio Dalla Vecchia, Joop Schaye
Cosmological simulations make use of sub-grid recipes for the implementation of galactic winds driven by massive stars because direct injection of supernova energy in thermal form…
The Origin of Disks and Spheroids in Simulated Galaxies
Laura V. Sales, Julio F. Navarro, Tom Theuns +5
In the simplest scenario, disk galaxies form predominantly in halos with high angular momentum and quiet recent assembly history, whereas spheroids are the slowly-rotating remnants…