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 …

Swift : a modern highly parallel gravity and smoothed particle hydrodynamics solver for astrophysical and cosmological applications

M Schaller, J Borrow, PW Draper… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Numerical simulations have become one of the key tools used by theorists in all the fields of
astrophysics and cosmology. The development of modern tools that target the largest …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

Reconstructing the last major merger of the Milky Way with the H3 survey

RP Naidu, C Conroy, A Bonaca, D Zaritsky… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Several lines of evidence suggest that the Milky Way underwent a major merger at z∼ 2 with
the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus (GSE) galaxy. Here we use H3 Survey data to argue that GSE …