The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. III. Cosmological Zoom-in Simulation of a Milky Way-mass Halo

Autor: Ikkoh Shimizu, Avishai Dekel, Kentaro Nagamine, Joel R. Primack, Ki Won Kim, Britton D. Smith, Clayton Strawn, Bili Dong, Oliver Hahn, Tom Abel, Ji-hoon Kim, Johnny W. Powell, Daniel Ceverino, Santi Roca-Fàbrega, Yves Revaz, Matthew J. Turk, Thomas R. Quinn, Michael Buehlmann, Cameron Hummels, Alessandro Lupi, Loic Hausammann, Romain Teyssier, Héctor Velázquez
Přispěvatelé: UAM. Departamento de Física Teórica, Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AGORA, Roca-Fabrega, S, Kim, J, Hausammann, L, Nagamine, K, Lupi, A, Powell, J, Shimizu, I, Ceverino, D, Primack, J, Quinn, T, Revaz, Y, Velazquez, H, Abel, T, Buehlmann, M, Dekel, A, Dong, B, Hahn, O, Hummels, C, Kim, K, Smith, B, Strawn, C, Teyssier, R, Turk, M
Předmět:
Astrofísica
chemical enrichment
Hydrodynamical simulation
Astrophysics
01 natural sciences
Chemical Enrichment
Astronomical simulation
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysic
Stellar Feedback
010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Physics
Galaxy formation
Star-Formation
Dust Formation
sph simulations
astro-ph.CO
stellar feedback
Halo
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
Stellar mass
disc galaxy
Evolution
Milky Way
astro-ph.GA
FOS: Physical sciences
Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Metric expansion of space
SPH Simulations
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxie
0103 physical sciences
evolution
Galaxy formation and evolution
[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det]
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
dust formation
star-formation
010308 nuclear & particles physics
Star formation
Code
Física
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Redshift
redshift
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Galaxy
Astronomía
Disc Galaxy
Space and Planetary Science
Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
hydrodynamics
code
Hydrodynamics
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic
[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
astro-ph.IM
Zdroj: Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
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The Astrophysical Journal
2021, ' The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. III : Cosmological zoom-in simulation of a Milky Way-mass halo ', Astrophysical Journal, vol. 917, no. 2, 64, pp. 1-24 . https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac088a
E-Prints Complutense. Archivo Institucional de la UCM
Popis: We present a suite of high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations to $z=4$ of a $10^{12}\,{\rm M}_{\odot}$ halo at $z=0$, obtained using seven contemporary astrophysical simulation codes widely used in the numerical galaxy formation community. Physics prescriptions for gas cooling, heating, and star formation, are similar to the ones used in our previous {\it AGORA} disk comparison but now account for the effects of cosmological processes. In this work, we introduce the most careful comparison yet of galaxy formation simulations run by different code groups, together with a series of four calibration steps each of which is designed to reduce the number of tunable simulation parameters adopted in the final run. After all the participating code groups successfully completed the calibration steps, we reach a suite of cosmological simulations with similar mass assembly histories down to $z=4$. With numerical accuracy that resolves the internal structure of a target halo, we find that the codes overall agree well with one another in e.g., gas and stellar properties, but also show differences in e.g., circumgalactic medium properties. We argue that, if adequately tested in accordance with our proposed calibration steps and common parameters, the results of high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations can be robust and reproducible. New code groups are invited to join this comparison by generating equivalent models by adopting the common initial conditions, the common easy-to-implement physics package, and the proposed calibration steps. Further analyses of the simulations presented here will be in forthcoming reports from our Collaboration.
Accepted for publication to the ApJ. The simulation snapshots used in this paper will be made publicly available in a user-friendly interface. The announcement of the data release will be posted on the AGORA Project webpage (www.agorasimulations.org). Early access to the data can be provided upon request to the authors, or to the project coordinator (sroca01@ucm.es, santacruzgalaxy@gmail.com)
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