Overview and public data release of the augmented Auriga Project: cosmological simulations of dwarf and Milky Way-mass galaxies

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Autori principali: Grand, Robert J. J., Fragkoudi, Francesca, Gómez, Facundo A., Jenkins, Adrian, Marinacci, Federico, Pakmor, Rüdiger, Springel, Volker
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author Grand, Robert J. J.
Fragkoudi, Francesca
Gómez, Facundo A.
Jenkins, Adrian
Marinacci, Federico
Pakmor, Rüdiger
Springel, Volker
author_facet Grand, Robert J. J.
Fragkoudi, Francesca
Gómez, Facundo A.
Jenkins, Adrian
Marinacci, Federico
Pakmor, Rüdiger
Springel, Volker
contents We present an extended suite of the Auriga cosmological gravo-magnetohydrodynamical "zoom-in" simulations of 40 Milky Way-mass halos and 26 dwarf galaxy-mass halos run with the moving-mesh code Arepo. Auriga adopts the $Λ$ Cold Dark Matter ($Λ$CDM) cosmogony and includes a comprehensive galaxy formation physics model following the coupled cosmic evolution of dark matter, gas, stars, and supermassive black holes which has been shown to produce numerically well-converged galaxy properties for Milky Way-mass systems. We describe the first public data release of this augmented suite of Auriga simulations, which includes raw snapshots, group catalogues, merger trees, initial conditions, and supplementary data, as well as public analysis tools with worked examples of how to use the data. To demonstrate the value and robustness of the simulation predictions, we analyse a series of low-redshift global properties that compare well with many observed scaling relations, such as the Tully-Fisher relation, the star-forming main sequence, and HI gas fraction/disc thickness. Finally, we show that star-forming gas discs appear to build rotation and velocity dispersion rapidly for $z\gtrsim 3$ before they "settle" into ever-increasing rotation-dispersion ratios ($V/σ$). This evolution appears to be in rough agreement with some kinematic measurements from H$α$ observations, and demonstrates an application of how to utilise the released data.
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spellingShingle Overview and public data release of the augmented Auriga Project: cosmological simulations of dwarf and Milky Way-mass galaxies
Grand, Robert J. J.
Fragkoudi, Francesca
Gómez, Facundo A.
Jenkins, Adrian
Marinacci, Federico
Pakmor, Rüdiger
Springel, Volker
Astrophysics of Galaxies
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
We present an extended suite of the Auriga cosmological gravo-magnetohydrodynamical "zoom-in" simulations of 40 Milky Way-mass halos and 26 dwarf galaxy-mass halos run with the moving-mesh code Arepo. Auriga adopts the $Λ$ Cold Dark Matter ($Λ$CDM) cosmogony and includes a comprehensive galaxy formation physics model following the coupled cosmic evolution of dark matter, gas, stars, and supermassive black holes which has been shown to produce numerically well-converged galaxy properties for Milky Way-mass systems. We describe the first public data release of this augmented suite of Auriga simulations, which includes raw snapshots, group catalogues, merger trees, initial conditions, and supplementary data, as well as public analysis tools with worked examples of how to use the data. To demonstrate the value and robustness of the simulation predictions, we analyse a series of low-redshift global properties that compare well with many observed scaling relations, such as the Tully-Fisher relation, the star-forming main sequence, and HI gas fraction/disc thickness. Finally, we show that star-forming gas discs appear to build rotation and velocity dispersion rapidly for $z\gtrsim 3$ before they "settle" into ever-increasing rotation-dispersion ratios ($V/σ$). This evolution appears to be in rough agreement with some kinematic measurements from H$α$ observations, and demonstrates an application of how to utilise the released data.
title Overview and public data release of the augmented Auriga Project: cosmological simulations of dwarf and Milky Way-mass galaxies
topic Astrophysics of Galaxies
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08750