FRAZER PEARCE's Outputs (50)

Assembly of the Intracluster Light in the Horizon-AGN Simulation (2024)
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Brown, H. J., Martin, G., Pearce, F. R., Hatch, N. A., Bahé, Y. M., & Dubois, Y. (2024). Assembly of the Intracluster Light in the Horizon-AGN Simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2084

The diffuse stellar component of galaxy clusters made up of intergalactic stars is termed the intracluster light (ICL). Though there is a developing understanding of the mechanisms by which the ICL is formed, no strong consensus has yet been reached... Read More about Assembly of the Intracluster Light in the Horizon-AGN Simulation.

Reconsidering the dynamical states of galaxy clusters using PCA and UMAP (2024)
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Haggar, R., De Luca, F., De Petris, M., Sazonova, E., Taylor, J. E., Knebe, A., …Power, C. (2024). Reconsidering the dynamical states of galaxy clusters using PCA and UMAP. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532(1), 1031–1048. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1566

Numerous metrics exist to quantify the dynamical state of galaxy clusters, both observationally and within simulations. Many of these correlate strongly with one another, but it is not clear whether all of these measures probe the same intrinsic prop... Read More about Reconsidering the dynamical states of galaxy clusters using PCA and UMAP.

Correcting for the overabundance of low-mass quiescent galaxies in semi-analytic models (2024)
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Harrold, J. E., Almaini, O., Pearce, F. R., & Yates, R. M. (2024). Correcting for the overabundance of low-mass quiescent galaxies in semi-analytic models. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 532(1), L61-L66. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slae043

We compare the L-Galaxies semi-analytic model to deep observational data from the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey (UDS) across the redshift range 0.5 < z < 3. We find that the overabundance of low-mass, passive galaxies at high redshifts in the model can be... Read More about Correcting for the overabundance of low-mass quiescent galaxies in semi-analytic models.

The three hundred project: thermodynamical properties, shocks, and gas dynamics in simulated galaxy cluster filaments and their surroundings (2023)
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Rost, A. M., Nuza, S. E., Stasyszyn, F., Kuchner, U., Hoeft, M., Welker, C., …Yepes, G. (2024). The three hundred project: thermodynamical properties, shocks, and gas dynamics in simulated galaxy cluster filaments and their surroundings. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(1), 1301-1316. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3208

Using cosmological simulations of galaxy cluster regions from THE THREE HUNDRED project, we study the nature of gas in filaments feeding massive clusters. By stacking the diffuse material of filaments throughout the cluster sample, we measure average... Read More about The three hundred project: thermodynamical properties, shocks, and gas dynamics in simulated galaxy cluster filaments and their surroundings.

The localization of galaxy groups in close proximity to galaxy clusters using cosmic web nodes (2023)
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Cornwell, D. J., Kuchner, U., Gray, M. E., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Pearce, F. R., Cui, W., & Knebe, A. (2024). The localization of galaxy groups in close proximity to galaxy clusters using cosmic web nodes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(1), 23-34. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3205

We investigate the efficacy of using the cosmic web nodes identified by the DisPerSE topological filament finder to systematically identify galaxy groups in the infall regions around massive clusters. The large random motions and infall velocities of... Read More about The localization of galaxy groups in close proximity to galaxy clusters using cosmic web nodes.

The probability of identifying the cosmic web environment of galaxies around clusters motivated by the Weave Wide Field Cluster Survey (2023)
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Cornwell, D. J., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Kuchner, U., Gray, M. E., Pearce, F. R., & Knebe, A. (2023). The probability of identifying the cosmic web environment of galaxies around clusters motivated by the Weave Wide Field Cluster Survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524(2), 2148–2160. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1949

Upcoming wide-field spectroscopic surveys will observe galaxies in a range of cosmic web environments in and around galaxy clusters. In this paper, we test and quantify how successfully we will be able to identify the environment of individual galaxi... Read More about The probability of identifying the cosmic web environment of galaxies around clusters motivated by the Weave Wide Field Cluster Survey.

Galaxy pairs in THE THREE HUNDRED simulations II: studying bound ones and identifying them via machine learning (2023)
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Contreras-Santos, A., Knebe, A., Cui, W., Haggar, R., Pearce, F., Gray, M., …Yepes, G. (2023). Galaxy pairs in THE THREE HUNDRED simulations II: studying bound ones and identifying them via machine learning. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 522(1), 1270-1287. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1061

Using the data set of The Three Hundred project, i.e. 324 hydrodynamical resimulations of cluster-sized haloes and the regions of radius 15 around them, we study galaxy pairs in high-density environments. By projecting the galaxies' 3D coordinates on... Read More about Galaxy pairs in THE THREE HUNDRED simulations II: studying bound ones and identifying them via machine learning.

The Three Hundred Project: Connection between star formation quenching and dynamical evolution in and around simulated galaxy clusters (2022)
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Hough, T., Cora, S. A., Haggar, R., Vega-Martinez, C., Kuchner, U., Pearce, F., …Yepes, G. (2023). The Three Hundred Project: Connection between star formation quenching and dynamical evolution in and around simulated galaxy clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518(2), 2398-2417. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3209

In this work, we combine the semi-analytic model of galaxy formation and evolution SAG with the 102 relaxed simulated galaxy clusters from THE THREE HUNDRED project, and we study the link between the quenching of star formation (SF) and the physical... Read More about The Three Hundred Project: Connection between star formation quenching and dynamical evolution in and around simulated galaxy clusters.

The Three Hundred project: Galaxy groups do not survive cluster infall (2022)
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Haggar, R., Kuchner, U., Gray, M. E., Pearce, F. R., Knebe, A., Yepes, G., & Cui, W. (2023). The Three Hundred project: Galaxy groups do not survive cluster infall. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518(1), 1316-1334. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2809

Galaxy clusters grow by accreting galaxies as individual objects, or as members of a galaxy group. These groups can strongly impact galaxy evolution, stripping the gas from galaxies, and enhancing the rate of galaxy mergers. However, it is not clear... Read More about The Three Hundred project: Galaxy groups do not survive cluster infall.

Forecasting the success of the WEAVE Wide-Field Cluster Survey on the extraction of the cosmic web filaments around galaxy clusters (2022)
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Cornwell, D. J., Kuchner, U., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Gray, M. E., Pearce, F. R., Aguerri, J. A. L., …Trager, S. C. (2022). Forecasting the success of the WEAVE Wide-Field Cluster Survey on the extraction of the cosmic web filaments around galaxy clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 517(2), 1678–1694. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2777

Next-generation wide-field spectroscopic surveys will observe the infall regions around large numbers of galaxy clusters with high sampling rates for the first time. Here we assess the feasibility of extracting the large-scale cosmic web around clust... Read More about Forecasting the success of the WEAVE Wide-Field Cluster Survey on the extraction of the cosmic web filaments around galaxy clusters.

Galaxy pairs in THE THREE HUNDRED simulations: a study on the performance of observational pair-finding techniques (2022)
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Contreras-Santos, A., Knebe, A., Cui, W., Haggar, R., Pearce, F., Gray, M., …Yepes, G. (2022). Galaxy pairs in THE THREE HUNDRED simulations: a study on the performance of observational pair-finding techniques. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 515(4), 5375-5388. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2127

Close pairs of galaxies have been broadly studied in the literature as a way to understand galaxy interactions and mergers. In observations, they are usually defined by setting a maximum separation in the sky and in velocity along the line of sight,... Read More about Galaxy pairs in THE THREE HUNDRED simulations: a study on the performance of observational pair-finding techniques.

A stochastic model to reproduce the star formation history of individual galaxies in hydrodynamic simulations (2022)
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Wang, Y., Napolitano, N. R., Cui, W., Li, X. D., Knebe, A., Power, C., …Kang, X. (2022). A stochastic model to reproduce the star formation history of individual galaxies in hydrodynamic simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 515(3), 3249-3269. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac1956

The star formation history (SFH) of galaxies is critical for understanding galaxy evolution. Hydrodynamical simulations enable us to precisely reconstruct the SFH of galaxies and establish a link to the underlying physical processes. In this work, we... Read More about A stochastic model to reproduce the star formation history of individual galaxies in hydrodynamic simulations.

The Three Hundred project: The gizmo-simba run (2022)
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Cui, W., Dave, R., Knebe, A., Rasia, E., Gray, M., Pearce, F., …Gianfagna, G. (2022). The Three Hundred project: The gizmo-simba run. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 514(1), 977-996. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac1402

We introduce gizmo-simba, a new suite of galaxy cluster simulations within The Three Hundred project. The Three Hundred consists of zoom re-simulations of 324 clusters with M 200≳ 1014.8, M ⊙ drawn from the MultiDark-Planck N-body simulation, run usi... Read More about The Three Hundred project: The gizmo-simba run.

The three hundred project: Galaxy cluster mergers and their impact on the stellar component of brightest cluster galaxies (2022)
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Contreras-Santos, A., Knebe, A., Pearce, F., Haggar, R., Gray, M., Cui, W., …Hoeft, M. (2022). The three hundred project: Galaxy cluster mergers and their impact on the stellar component of brightest cluster galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 511(2), 2897-2913. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac275

Using the data set of the three hundred project, i.e. a suite of 324 hydrodynamical resimulations of cluster-sized haloes, we study galaxy cluster mergers and their effect on colour and luminosity changes of their brightest cluster galaxies (BCG). We... Read More about The three hundred project: Galaxy cluster mergers and their impact on the stellar component of brightest cluster galaxies.

An inventory of galaxies in cosmic filaments feeding galaxy clusters: galaxy groups, backsplash galaxies, and pristine galaxies (2021)
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Kuchner, U., Haggar, R., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Pearce, F. R., Gray, M. E., Rost, A., …Yepes, G. (2022). An inventory of galaxies in cosmic filaments feeding galaxy clusters: galaxy groups, backsplash galaxies, and pristine galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510(1), 581-592. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3419

Galaxy clusters grow by accreting galaxies from the field and along filaments of the cosmic web. As galaxies are accreted they are affected by their local environment before they enter (pre-processing), and traverse the cluster potential. Observation... Read More about An inventory of galaxies in cosmic filaments feeding galaxy clusters: galaxy groups, backsplash galaxies, and pristine galaxies.

The Three Hundred Project: The stellar angular momentum evolution of cluster galaxies (2021)
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Mostoghiu, R., Knebe, A., Pearce, F. R., Power, C., Lagos, C. D. P., Cui, W., …Yepes, G. (2021). The Three Hundred Project: The stellar angular momentum evolution of cluster galaxies. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 652, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202038425

Using 324 numerically modelled galaxy clusters as provided by THE THREE HUNDRED project, we study the evolution of the kinematic properties of the stellar component of haloes on first infall. We selected objects with Mstar > 5 × 1010h-1Mpdbl within 3... Read More about The Three Hundred Project: The stellar angular momentum evolution of cluster galaxies.

Cosmic filaments in galaxy cluster outskirts: quantifying finding filaments in redshift space (2021)
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Kuchner, U., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Rost, A., Pearce, F. R., Gray, M. E., Cui, W., …Yepes, G. (2021). Cosmic filaments in galaxy cluster outskirts: quantifying finding filaments in redshift space. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 503(2), 2065-2076. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab567

Inferring line-of-sight distances from redshifts in and around galaxy clusters is complicated by peculiar velocities, a phenomenon known as the "Fingers of God" (FoG). This presents a significant challenge for finding filaments in large observational... Read More about Cosmic filaments in galaxy cluster outskirts: quantifying finding filaments in redshift space.

The Three Hundred Project: Substructure in hydrodynamical and dark matter simulations of galaxy groups around clusters (2021)
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Haggar, R., Pearce, F. R., Gray, M. E., Knebe, A., & Yepes, G. (2021). The Three Hundred Project: Substructure in hydrodynamical and dark matter simulations of galaxy groups around clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 502(1), 1191-1204. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab064

Dark matter-only simulations are able to produce the cosmic structure of a Lambda cold dark matter universe, at a much lower computational cost than more physically motivated hydrodynamical simulations. However, it is not clear how well smaller subst... Read More about The Three Hundred Project: Substructure in hydrodynamical and dark matter simulations of galaxy groups around clusters.

The Three Hundred project: The gas disruption of infalling objects in cluster environments (2021)
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Mostoghiu, R., Arthur, J., Pearce, F. R., Gray, M., Knebe, A., Cui, W., …Yepes, G. (2021). The Three Hundred project: The gas disruption of infalling objects in cluster environments. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 501(4), 5029-5041. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab014

We analyse the gas content evolution of infalling haloes in cluster environments from The Three Hundred project, a collection of 324 numerically modelled galaxy clusters. The haloes in our sample were selected within 5R200 of the main cluster halo at... Read More about The Three Hundred project: The gas disruption of infalling objects in cluster environments.

The threehundred: the structure and properties of cosmic filaments in the outskirts of galaxy clusters (2020)
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Rost, A., Kuchner, U., Welker, C., Pearce, F., Stasyszyn, F., Gray, M., …Rasia, E. (2021). The threehundred: the structure and properties of cosmic filaments in the outskirts of galaxy clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 502(1), 714-727. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3792

Galaxy cluster outskirts are described by complex velocity fields induced by diffuse material collapsing towards filaments, gas, and galaxies falling into clusters, and gas shock processes triggered by substructures. A simple scenario that describes... Read More about The threehundred: the structure and properties of cosmic filaments in the outskirts of galaxy clusters.

The Three Hundred project: shapes and radial alignment of satellite, infalling, and backsplash galaxies (2020)
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Knebe, A., Gámez-Marín, M., Pearce, F. R., Cui, W., Hoffmann, K., De Petris, M., …Mostoghiu, R. (2020). The Three Hundred project: shapes and radial alignment of satellite, infalling, and backsplash galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495(3), 3002-3013. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1407

Using 324 numerically modelled galaxy clusters, we investigate the radial and galaxy–halo alignment of dark matter subhaloes and satellite galaxies orbiting within and around them. We find that radial alignment depends on distance to the centre of th... Read More about The Three Hundred project: shapes and radial alignment of satellite, infalling, and backsplash galaxies.

The Three Hundred project: the stellar and gas profiles (2020)
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Li, Q., Cui, W., Yang, X., Rasia, E., Dave, R., De Petris, M., …Yepes, G. (2020). The Three Hundred project: the stellar and gas profiles. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495(3), 2930-2948. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1385

Using the catalogues of galaxy clusters from The Three Hundred project, modelled with both hydrodynamic simulations (GADGET-X and GADGET-MUSIC), and semi-analytical models (SAMs), we study the scatter and self-similarity of the profiles and distribut... Read More about The Three Hundred project: the stellar and gas profiles.

Mapping and characterization of cosmic filaments in galaxy cluster outskirts: strategies and forecasts for observations from simulations (2020)
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Kuchner, U., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Pearce, F. R., Gray, M. E., Rost, A., Mu, C., …Yepes, G. (2020). Mapping and characterization of cosmic filaments in galaxy cluster outskirts: strategies and forecasts for observations from simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 494(4), 5473-5491. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1083

Upcoming wide-field surveys are well-suited to studying the growth of galaxy clusters by tracing galaxy and gas accretion along cosmic filaments. We use hydrodynamic simulations of volumes surrounding 324 clusters from The ThreeHundred project to dev... Read More about Mapping and characterization of cosmic filaments in galaxy cluster outskirts: strategies and forecasts for observations from simulations.

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.

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.

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.

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.

nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations – II. Radiative models (2016)
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Sembolini, F., Elahi, P. J., Pearce, F. R., Power, C., Knebe, A., Kay, S. T., …Teyssier, R. (2016). nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations – II. Radiative models. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 459(3), 2973-2991. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw800

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 Ʌ 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.

nIFTy cosmology: comparison of galaxy formation models (2015)
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Knebe, A., Pearce, F. R., Thomas, P. A., Benson, A., Blaizot, J., Bower, R., …Yi, S. K. (2015). nIFTy cosmology: comparison of galaxy formation models. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 451(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1149

We present a comparison of 14 galaxy formation models: 12 different semi-analytical models and 2 halo occupation distribution models for galaxy formation based upon the same cosmological simulation and merger tree information derived from it. The par... Read More about nIFTy cosmology: comparison of galaxy formation models.

Solving the puzzle of subhalo spins (2015)
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Wang, Y., Lin, W., Pearce, F. R., Lux, H., Muldrew, S. I., & Onions, J. (2015). Solving the puzzle of subhalo spins. Astrophysical Journal, 801(2), Article 93. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/801/2/93

Investigating the spin parameter distribution of subhalos in two high-resolution isolated halo simulations, recent work by Onions et al. suggested that typical subhalo spins are consistently lower than the spin distribution found for field halos. To... Read More about Solving the puzzle of subhalo spins.

Numerical simulation of two-dimensional Kelvin-Helmholtz instability using weakly compressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics (2015)
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Yue, T., Pearce, F., Kruisbrink, A., & Morvan, H. (2015). Numerical simulation of two-dimensional Kelvin-Helmholtz instability using weakly compressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 78(5), https://doi.org/10.1002/fld.4017

The growth of the Kelvin–Helmholtz instability generated at the interface between two ideal gases is studied by means of a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) scheme suitable for multi-fluids. The SPH scheme is based on the continuity equation appr... Read More about Numerical simulation of two-dimensional Kelvin-Helmholtz instability using weakly compressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics.

Sussing merger trees: the impact of halo merger trees on galaxy properties in a semi-analytic model (2014)
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Lee, J., Yi, S. K., Elahi, P. J., Thomas, P. A., Pearce, F. R., Behroozi, P., …Tweed, D. (2014). Sussing merger trees: the impact of halo merger trees on galaxy properties in a semi-analytic model. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2039

A halo merger tree forms the essential backbone of a semi-analytic model for galaxy formation and evolution. Recent studies have pointed out that extracting merger trees from numerical simulations of structure formation is non-trivial; different tree... Read More about Sussing merger trees: the impact of halo merger trees on galaxy properties in a semi-analytic model.

Subhaloes gone Notts: subhaloes as tracers of the dark matter halo shape (2014)
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Hoffmann, K., Planelles, S., Gaztanaga, E., Knebe, A., Pearce, F. R., Lux, H., …Sgro, M. A. (2014). Subhaloes gone Notts: subhaloes as tracers of the dark matter halo shape. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 442(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu933

We study the shapes of subhalo distributions from four dark-matter-only simulations of Milky Way-type haloes. Comparing the shapes derived from the subhalo distributions at high resolution to those of the underlying dark matter fields, we find the fo... Read More about Subhaloes gone Notts: subhaloes as tracers of the dark matter halo shape.

Sussing merger trees: the influence of the halo finder (2014)
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Avila, S., Knebe, A., Pearce, F. R., Schneider, A., Srisawat, C., Thomas, P. A., …Tweed, D. (2014). Sussing merger trees: the influence of the halo finder. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 441(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu799

Merger tree codes are routinely used to follow the growth and merger of dark matter haloes in simulations of cosmic structure formation. Whereas in Srisawat et. al. we compared the trees built using a wide variety of such codes, here we study the inf... Read More about Sussing merger trees: the influence of the halo finder.

Galaxy cluster mass reconstruction project – I. Methods and first results on galaxy-based techniques (2014)
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Old, L., Skibba, R., Pearce, F. R., Croton, D., Muldrew, S. I., Muñoz-Cuartas, J., …Wojtak, R. (2014). Galaxy cluster mass reconstruction project – I. Methods and first results on galaxy-based techniques. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 441(2), 1513-1536. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu545

This paper is the first in a series in which we perform an extensive comparison of various galaxy-based cluster mass estimation techniques that utilize the positions, velocities and colours of galaxies. Our primary aim is to test the performance of t... Read More about Galaxy cluster mass reconstruction project – I. Methods and first results on galaxy-based techniques.

Subhaloes gone Notts: the clustering properties of subhaloes (2014)
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Pujol, A., Gaztanaga, E., Giocoli, C., Knebe, A., Pearce, F. R., Skibba, R. A., …Tweed, D. (2014). Subhaloes gone Notts: the clustering properties of subhaloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 438(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2446

We present a study of the substructure finder dependence of subhalo clustering in the Aquarius Simulation. We run 11 different subhalo finders on the haloes of the Aquarius Simulation and study their differences in the density profile, mass fraction... Read More about Subhaloes gone Notts: the clustering properties of subhaloes.