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The Three Hundred Project: Backsplash galaxies in simulations of clusters (2020)
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Haggar, R., Gray, M. E., Pearce, F. R., Knebe, A., Cui, W., Mostoghiu, R., & Yepes, G. (2020). The Three Hundred Project: Backsplash galaxies in simulations of clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(4), 6074–6085. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa273

In the outer regions of a galaxy cluster, galaxies may be either falling into the cluster for the first time, or have already passed through the cluster centre at some point in their past. To investigate these two distinct populations, we utilise The... Read More about The Three Hundred Project: Backsplash galaxies in simulations of clusters.

nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations VI: the dynamical imprint of substructure on gaseous cluster outskirts (2019)
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Power, C., Elahi, P. J., Welker, C., Knebe, A., Pearce, F. R., Yepes, G., …Schaye, J. (2020). nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations VI: the dynamical imprint of substructure on gaseous cluster outskirts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 491(1), 3923-3936. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3176

Galaxy cluster outskirts mark the transition region from the mildly non-linear cosmic web to the highly non-linear, virialized, cluster interior. It is in this transition region that the intracluster medium (ICM) begins to influence the properties of... Read More about nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations VI: the dynamical imprint of substructure on gaseous cluster outskirts.

TheThreeHundred Project: ram pressure and gas content of haloes and subhaloes in the phase-space plane (2019)
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Arthur, J., Pearce, F. R., Gray, M. E., Knebe, A., Cui, W., Elahi, P. J., …Stevens, A. R. H. (2019). TheThreeHundred Project: ram pressure and gas content of haloes and subhaloes in the phase-space plane. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(3), 3968-3983. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz212

We use THETHREEHUNDRED project, a suite of 324 resimulated massive galaxy clusters embedded in a broad range of environments, to investigate (i) how the gas content of the surrounding haloes correlates with the phase-space position at z z = 0 and (i... Read More about TheThreeHundred Project: ram pressure and gas content of haloes and subhaloes in the phase-space plane.

The Three Hundred Project: the evolution of galaxy cluster density profiles (2018)
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Mostoghiu, R., Knebe, A., Cui, W., Pearce, F. R., Yepes, G., Power, C., …Arth, A. (2018). The Three Hundred Project: the evolution of galaxy cluster density profiles. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 483(3), 3390-3403. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty3306

Recent numerical studies of the dark matter density profiles of massive galaxy clusters (Mhalo > 1015 M) show that their median radial mass density profile remains unchanged up to z > 1, displaying a highly self-similar evolution. We verify this by u... Read More about The Three Hundred Project: the evolution of galaxy cluster density profiles.

The Three Hundred Project: the influence of environment on simulated galaxy properties (2018)
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Wang, Y., Pearce, F., Knebe, A., Yepes, G., Cui, W., Power, C., …Feng, L. (2018). The Three Hundred Project: the influence of environment on simulated galaxy properties. Astrophysical Journal, 868(2), Article 130. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aae52e

The relationship between galaxy properties and environment is a widely discussed topic within astrophysics. Here, we use galaxy samples from hydrodynamical resimulations to examine this relationship. We use the overdensity (δ1)within a h-1Mpc sphere... Read More about The Three Hundred Project: the influence of environment on simulated galaxy properties.

Galaxy Cluster Mass Reconstruction Project – IV. Understanding the effects of imperfect membership on cluster mass estimation (2018)
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Wojtak, R., Old, L., Mamon, G., Pearce, F., de Carvalho, R., Sifón, C., …Tempel, E. (2018). Galaxy Cluster Mass Reconstruction Project – IV. Understanding the effects of imperfect membership on cluster mass estimation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 481(1), 324-340. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2257

The primary difficulty in measuring dynamical masses of galaxy clusters from galaxy data lies in the separation between true cluster members from interloping galaxies along the line of sight. We study the impact of membership contamination and incomp... Read More about Galaxy Cluster Mass Reconstruction Project – IV. Understanding the effects of imperfect membership on cluster mass estimation.

The Three Hundred Project: a large catalogue of theoretically modelled galaxy clusters for cosmological and astrophysical applications (2018)
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Cui, W., Knebe, A., Yepes, G., Pearce, F., Power, C., Dave, R., …Welker, C. (2018). The Three Hundred Project: a large catalogue of theoretically modelled galaxy clusters for cosmological and astrophysical applications. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 480(3), 2898-2915. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2111

We introduce the The Three Hundred project, an endeavour to model 324 large galaxy clusters with full-physics hydrodynamical re-simulations. Here we present the dataset and study the differences to observations for fundamental galaxy cluster properti... Read More about The Three Hundred Project: a large catalogue of theoretically modelled galaxy clusters for cosmological and astrophysical applications.

Cosmic CARNage II: the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function in observations and galaxy formation models (2018)
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Asquith, R., Pearce, F. R., Almaini, O., Knebe, A., Gonzalez-Perez, V., Benson, A., …Yi, S. K. (2018). Cosmic CARNage II: the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function in observations and galaxy formation models. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 480(1), 1197–1210. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1870

We present a comparison of the observed evolving galaxy stellar mass functions with the predictions of eight semi-analytic models and one halo occupation distribution model. While most models are able to fit the data at low redshift, some of them str... Read More about Cosmic CARNage II: the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function in observations and galaxy formation models.

An SPH multi-fluid model based on quasi-buoyancy for interface stabilization up to high density ratios and realistic wave speed ratios (2018)
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Kruisbrink, A. C., Pearce, F., Yue, T., & Morvan, H. (2018). An SPH multi-fluid model based on quasi-buoyancy for interface stabilization up to high density ratios and realistic wave speed ratios. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 87(10), https://doi.org/10.1002/fld.4498

We introduce a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) concept for the stabilization of the interface between two fluids. It is demonstrated that the change in the pressure gradient across the interface leads to a force imbalance. This force imbalance... Read More about An SPH multi-fluid model based on quasi-buoyancy for interface stabilization up to high density ratios and realistic wave speed ratios.

Galaxy Cluster Mass Reconstruction Project: III. The impact of dynamical substructure on cluster mass estimates (2017)
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Old, L., Wojtak, R., Pearce, F., Gray, M., Mamon, G., Sifón, C., …Saro, A. (2018). Galaxy Cluster Mass Reconstruction Project: III. The impact of dynamical substructure on cluster mass estimates. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3241

With the advent of wide-field cosmological surveys, we are approaching samples of hundreds of thousands of galaxy clusters. While such large numbers will help reduce statistical uncertainties, the control of systematics in cluster masses is crucial.... Read More about Galaxy Cluster Mass Reconstruction Project: III. The impact of dynamical substructure on cluster mass estimates.

Cosmic CARNage I: on the calibration of galaxy formation models (2017)
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Knebe, A., Pearce, F. R., Gonzalez-Perez, V., Thomas, P. A., Benson, A., Asquith, R., …Yi, S. K. (2018). Cosmic CARNage I: on the calibration of galaxy formation models. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3274

We present a comparison of nine galaxy formation models, eight semi-analytical, and one halo occupation distribution model, run on the same underlying cold dark matter simulation (cosmological box of comoving width 125h−1 Mpc, with a dark-matter part... Read More about Cosmic CARNage I: on the calibration of galaxy formation models.

nIFTy cosmology: the clustering consistency of galaxy formation models (2017)
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Pujol, A., Skibba, R. A., Gaztañaga, E., Benson, A., Blaizot, J., Bower, R., …Yi, S. K. (2017). nIFTy cosmology: the clustering consistency of galaxy formation models. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 469(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx913

We present a clustering comparison of 12 galaxy formation models [including semi-analytic models (SAMs) and halo occupation distribution (HOD) models] all run on halo catalogues and merger trees extracted from a single _ cold dark matter N-body simul... Read More about nIFTy cosmology: the clustering consistency of galaxy formation models.

nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations – V. Investigation of the cluster infall region (2016)
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Arthur, J., Pearce, F. R., Gray, M. E., Elahi, P. J., Knebe, A., Beck, A. M., …Yepes, G. (2017). nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations – V. Investigation of the cluster infall region. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(2), 2027-2038. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2424

We examine the properties of the galaxies and dark matter haloes residing in the cluster infall region surrounding the simulated _ cold dark matter galaxy cluster studied by Elahi et al. at z = 0. The 1.1 × 1015 h−1M_ galaxy cluster has been simulate... Read More about nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations – V. Investigation of the cluster infall region.

Matter power spectrum and the challenge of percent accuracy (2016)
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Schneider, A., Teyssier, R., Potter, D., Stadel, J., Onions, J., Reed, D. S., …Scoccimarro, R. (2016). Matter power spectrum and the challenge of percent accuracy. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2016(4), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/04/047

© 2016 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl. Future galaxy surveys require one percent precision in the theoretical knowledge of the power spectrum over a large range including very nonlinear scales. While this level of accuracy is easily obtain... Read More about Matter power spectrum and the challenge of percent accuracy.

Sussing merger trees: stability and convergence (2016)
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Wang, Y., Pearce, F. R., Knebe, A., Schneider, A., Srisawat, C., Tweed, D., …Lin, W. (2016). Sussing merger trees: stability and convergence. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 459(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw726

Merger trees are routinely used to follow the growth and merging history of dark matter haloes and subhaloes in simulations of cosmic structure formation. Srisawat et al. compared a wide range of merger-tree-building codes. Here we test the influence... Read More about Sussing merger trees: stability and convergence.

nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations – IV. Quantifying the influence of baryons on halo properties (2016)
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Cui, W., Power, C., Knebe, A., Kay, S. T., Sembolini, F., Elahi, P. J., …Thacker, R. J. (2016). nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations – IV. Quantifying the influence of baryons on halo properties. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 458(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw603

Building on the initial results of the nIFTy simulated galaxy cluster comparison, we compare and contrast the impact of baryonic physics with a single massive galaxy cluster, run with 11 state-of-the-art codes, spanning adaptive mesh, moving mesh, cl... Read More about nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations – IV. Quantifying the influence of baryons on halo properties.

nIFTY galaxy cluster simulations – III. The similarity and diversity of galaxies and subhaloes (2016)
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Elahi, P. J., Knebe, A., Pearce, F. R., Power, C., Yepes, G., Cui, W., …Teyssier, R. (2016). nIFTY galaxy cluster simulations – III. The similarity and diversity of galaxies and subhaloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 458(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw338

We examine subhaloes and galaxies residing in a simulated Λ cold dark matter galaxy cluster (Mcrit200=1.1×1015h−1M⊙) produced by hydrodynamical codes ranging from classic smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH), newer SPH codes, adaptive and moving mesh... Read More about nIFTY galaxy cluster simulations – III. The similarity and diversity of galaxies and subhaloes.

nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations – I. Dark matter and non-radiative models (2016)
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Sembolini, F., Yepes, G., Pearce, F. R., Knebe, A., Kay, S. T., Power, C., …Thacker, R. J. (in press). nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations – I. Dark matter and non-radiative models. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 457(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw250

We have simulated the formation of a galaxy cluster in a ? cold dark matter universe using 13 different codes modelling only gravity and non-radiative hydrodynamics (RAMSES, ART, AREPO, HYDRA and nine incarnations of GADGET). This range of codes incl... Read More about nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations – I. Dark matter and non-radiative models.

Major mergers going Notts: challenges for modern halo finders (2015)
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Behroozi, P., Knebe, A., Pearce, F. R., Elahi, P., Han, J., Lux, H., …Srisawat, C. (2015). Major mergers going Notts: challenges for modern halo finders. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2046

Merging haloes with similar masses (i.e. major mergers) pose significant challenges for halo finders. We compare five halo-finding algorithms’ (ahf, hbt, rockstar, subfind, and velociraptor) recovery of halo properties for both isolated and cosmologi... Read More about Major mergers going Notts: challenges for modern halo finders.