Hydrodynamical simulations of the galaxy population: enduring successes and outstanding challenges

RA Crain, F van de Voort - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
We review the progress in modeling the galaxy population in hydrodynamical simulations of
the ΛCDM cosmogony. State-of-the-art simulations now broadly reproduce the observed …

Dark matter self-interactions and small scale structure

S Tulin, HB Yu - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
We review theories of dark matter (DM) beyond the collisionless paradigm, known as self-
interacting dark matter (SIDM), and their observable implications for astrophysical structure …

Introducing the thesan project: radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the epoch of reionization

R Kannan, E Garaldi, A Smith, R Pakmor… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We introduce the thesan project, a suite of large volume () radiation-magnetohydrodynamic
simulations that simultaneously model the large-scale statistical properties of the …

Simulating cosmic structure formation with the gadget-4 code

V Springel, R Pakmor, O Zier… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Numerical methods have become a powerful tool for research in astrophysics, but their utility
depends critically on the availability of suitable simulation codes. This calls for continuous …

The Arepo public code release

R Weinberger, V Springel… - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We introduce the public version of the cosmological magnetohydrodynamical moving-mesh
simulation code A repo. This version contains a finite-volume magnetohydrodynamics …

The milky way total mass profile as inferred from Gaia DR2

M Cautun, A Benitez-Llambay… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT We determine the Milky Way (MW) mass profile inferred from fitting physically
motivated models to the Gaia DR2 Galactic rotation curve and other data. Using various …

FIRE-2 simulations: physics versus numerics in galaxy formation

PF Hopkins, A Wetzel, D Kereš… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) project explores feedback in
cosmological galaxy formation simulations. Previous FIRE simulations used an identical …

The Auriga Project: the properties and formation mechanisms of disc galaxies across cosmic time

RJJ Grand, FA Gómez, F Marinacci… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We introduce a suite of 30 cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical zoom simulations of the
formation of galaxies in isolated Milky Way mass dark haloes. These were carried out with …

Universal structure of dark matter haloes over a mass range of 20 orders of magnitude

J Wang, S Bose, CS Frenk, L Gao, A Jenkins… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Cosmological models in which dark matter consists of cold elementary particles predict that
the dark halo population should extend to masses many orders of magnitude below those at …

Introducing the NEWHORIZON simulation: Galaxy properties with resolved internal dynamics across cosmic time

Y Dubois, R Beckmann, F Bournaud, H Choi… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Hydrodynamical cosmological simulations are increasing their level of realism by
considering more physical processes and having greater resolution or larger statistics …