Volker Springel

The case for AGN feedback in galaxy groups (2009)

McCarthy, Ian G., Schaye, Joop, Ponman, Trevor J., Bower, Richard G., Booth, Craig M., Vecchia, Claudio Dalla, ...

[Abridged] The relatively recent insight that energy input from supermassive black holes (BHs) can have a substantial effect on the star formation rates (SFRs) of galaxies motivates us to examine its...

The impact of feedback on the low redshift Intergalactic Medium (2009)

Tornatore, Luca, Borgani, Stefano, Viel, Matteo, Springel, Volker

We analyse the evolution of the properties of the low-redshift Intergalactic Medium (IGM) using high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations that include a detailed chemical evolution model. We focus on...

Faint-end Quasar Luminosity Functions from Cosmological Hydrodynamic Simulations (2009)

DeGraf, Colin, Di Matteo, Tiziana, Springel, Volker

We investigate the predictions for the faint-end quasar luminosity function (QLF) and its evolution using fully cosmological hydrodynamic simulations which self-consistently follow star formation,...

Simulations of AGN feedback in galaxy clusters and groups (2009)

Puchwein, Ewald, Sijacki, Debora, Springel, Volker

There is compelling evidence that black holes (BHs) in cluster centers vigorously interact with their surroundings, indicating that any realistic model of cluster formation needs to account for these...

On merger bias and the clustering of quasars (2009)

Bonoli, Silvia, Shankar, Francesco, White, Simon, Springel, Volker, Wyithe, Stuart

We use the large catalogues of haloes available for the Millennium Simulation to test whether recently merged haloes exhibit stronger large-scale clustering than other haloes of the same mass. This...

Extragalactic gamma-ray background radiation from dark matter annihilation (2009)

Zavala, Jesus, Springel, Volker, Boylan-Kolchin, Michael

If dark matter is composed of neutralinos, one of the most exciting prospects for its detection lies in observations of the gamma-ray radiation created in pair annihilations between neutralinos, a...

Substructure depletion in the Milky Way halo by the disk (2009)

D'Onghia, Elena, Springel, Volker, Hernquist, Lars, Keres, Dusan

We employ numerical simulations and simple analytical estimates to argue that dark matter substructures orbiting in the inner regions of the Galaxy can be efficiently destroyed by disk shocking, a...

Caustics in growing Cold Dark Matter Haloes (2009)

Vogelsberger, Mark, White, Simon D. M., Mohayaee, Roya, Springel, Volker

We simulate the growth of isolated dark matter haloes from self-similar and spherically symmetric initial conditions. Our N-body code integrates the geodesic deviation equation in order to track the...

Galaxies-Intergalactic Medium Interaction Calculation --I. Galaxy formation as a function of large-scale environment (2009)

Crain, Robert A., Theuns, Tom, Vecchia, Claudio Dalla, Eke, Vincent R., Frenk, Carlos S., Jenkins, Adrian, ...

[Abridged] We present the first results of hydrodynamical simulations that follow the formation of galaxies to z=0 in spherical regions of radius ~20 Mpc/h drawn from the Millennium Simulation. The...

The spin and orientation of dark matter halos within cosmic filaments (2009)

Zhang, Youcai, Yang, Xiaohu, Faltenbacher, Andreas, Springel, Volker, Lin, Weipeng, Wang, Huiyuan

Clusters, filaments, sheets and voids are the building blocks of the cosmic web. In this study, we present and compare two distinct algorithms for finding cosmic filaments and sheets, a task which is...

The Origin of Extended Disk Galaxies at z=2 (2009)

Sales, Laura V., Navarro, Julio F., Schaye, Joop, Vecchia, Claudio Dalla, Springel, Volker, Haas, Marcel R., ...

Galaxy formation models typically assume that the size and rotation speed of galaxy disks are largely dictated by the mass, concentration, and spin of their surrounding dark matter haloes. Equally...

Disk galaxies at z=2 in OWLS (2009)

Navarro, Julio F., Sales, Laura V., Schaye, Joop, Vecchia, Claudio Dalla, Springel, Volker

We use the OWLS (OverWhelmingly Large Simulations) set of cosmological Nbody/gasdynamical simulations to study the properties of simulated galaxies at z=2. We focus on the effect of supernova...

Growing the first bright quasars in cosmological simulations of structure formation (2009)

Sijacki, Debora, Springel, Volker, Haehnelt, Martin G.

We employ cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to study the growth of massive black holes (BHs) at high redshifts subject to BH merger recoils from gravitational wave emission. We select the most...

The spatial distribution of X-ray selected AGN in the Chandra deep fields: a theoretical perspective (2009)

Marulli, Federico, Bonoli, Silvia, Branchini, Enzo, Gilli, Roberto, Moscardini, Lauro, Springel, Volker

We study the spatial distribution of X-ray selected AGN in the framework of hierarchical co-evolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies and dark matter haloes. To this end, we have...

Resolving Cosmic Structure Formation with the Millennium-II Simulation (2009)

Boylan-Kolchin, Michael, Springel, Volker, White, Simon D. M., Jenkins, Adrian, Lemson, Gerard

We present the Millennium-II Simulation (MS-II), a very large N-body simulation of dark matter evolution in the concordance LCDM cosmology. The MS-II assumes the same cosmological parameters and uses...

The role of dry mergers for the formation and evolution of brightest cluster galaxies (2009)

Ruszkowski, Mateusz, Springel, Volker

Using a resimulation technique, we perform high-resolution cosmological simulations of dry mergers in a massive galaxy cluster identified in the Millennium Run. Our initial conditions include well...

FITTING THE UNIVERSE ON A SUPERCOMPUTER (2009)

Simon D. M, Volker Springel

Simulations run on the largest available parallel supercomputers are answering the question of how today’s rich cosmic structure developed from a smooth, near featureless early universe. Two such...

E pur si muove: Galiliean-invariant cosmological hydrodynamical simulations on a moving mesh (2009)

Springel, Volker

Hydrodynamic cosmological simulations at present usually employ either the Lagrangian SPH technique, or Eulerian hydrodynamics on a Cartesian mesh with adaptive mesh refinement. Both of these methods...

Phase-space structure in the local dark matter distribution and its signature in direct detection experiments (2009)

Frenk, Carlos S., Wang, Jie, White, Simon D. M., Springel, Volker, Helmi, Amina, Vogelsberger, Mark, ...

We study predictions for dark matter phase-space structure near the Sun based on high-resolution simulations of six galaxy halos taken from the Aquarius Project. The local DM density distribution is...

Galaxies-intergalactic medium interaction calculation I: galaxy formation as a function of large-scale environment (2009)

Crain, Robert A., Theuns, Tom, Dalla Vecchia, Claudio, Eke, Vincent R., Frenk, Carlos S., Jenkins, Adrian, ...

We present the first results of hydrodynamical simulations that follow the formation of galaxies to the present day in nearly spherical regions of radius ~ 20 h^-1 Mpc/h drawn from the Millennium...

N-body simulations of coupled dark energy cosmologies (2008)

Baldi, Marco, Pettorino, Valeria, Robbers, Georg, Springel, Volker

If the accelerated expansion of the Universe at the present epoch is driven by a dark energy scalar field, there may well be a non-trivial coupling between the dark energy and the cold dark matter...

Cross-Correlation between Damped Ly-alpha Systems and Ly-break Galaxies in Cosmological SPH Simulations (2008)

Lee, Tae Song, Nagamine, Kentaro, Hernquist, Lars, Springel, Volker

We calculate the cross-correlation function (CCF) between damped Ly-alpha systems (DLAs) and Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) using cosmological hydrodynamic simulations at z=3. We compute the CCF with...

The Formation and Survival of Discs in a Lambda-CDM Universe (2008)

Scannapieco, Cecilia, White, Simon D. M., Springel, Volker, Tissera, Patricia B.

We study the formation of galaxies in a Lambda-CDM Universe using high resolution hydrodynamical simulations with a multiphase treatment of gas, cooling and feedback, focusing on the formation of...

Phase-space structure in the local dark matter distribution and its signature in direct detection experiments (2008)

Vogelsberger, Mark, Helmi, Amina, Springel, Volker, White, Simon D. M., Wang, Jie, Frenk, Carlos S., ...

We study predictions for dark matter phase-space structure near the Sun based on high-resolution simulations of six galaxy halos taken from the Aquarius Project. The local DM density distribution is...

Modeling the cosmological co-evolution of supermassive black holes and galaxies: II. The clustering of quasars and their dark environment (2008)

Bonoli, Silvia, Marulli, Federico, Springel, Volker, White, Simon D. M., Branchini, Enzo, Moscardini, Lauro

We use semi-analytic modeling on top of the Millennium simulation to study the joint formation of galaxies and their embedded supermassive black holes. Our goal is to test scenarios in which black...

GPU-Based Interactive Visualization of Billion Point Cosmological Simulations (2008)

Szalay, Tamas, Springel, Volker, Lemson, Gerard

Despite the recent advances in graphics hardware capabilities, a brute force approach is incapable of interactively displaying terabytes of data. We have implemented a system that uses hierarchical...

Lensed CMB temperature and polarization maps from the Millennium Simulation (2008)

Carbone, Carmelita, Baccigalupi, Carlo, Bartelmann, Matthias, Matarrese, Sabino, Springel, Volker

We have constructed the first all-sky CMB temperature and polarization lensed maps based on a high-resolution cosmological N-body simulation, the Millennium Simulation (MS). We have exploited the...

The Diversity and Similarity of Cold Dark Matter Halos (2008)

Navarro, Julio F., Ludlow, Aaron, Springel, Volker, Wang, Jie, Vogelsberger, Mark, White, Simon D. M., ...

We study the structure of LCDM halos using a suite of N-body simulations of unprecedented numerical resolution. The Aquarius Project follows the formation of 6 different galaxy-sized halos simulated...

The impact of Early Dark Energy on non-linear structure formation (2008)

Grossi, Margherita, Springel, Volker

We study non-linear structure formation in high-resolution simulations of Early Dark Energy (EDE) cosmologies and compare their evolution with the standard LCDM model. Extensions of the spherical...

A blueprint for detecting supersymmetric dark matter in the Galactic halo (2008)

Springel, Volker, White, Simon D. M., Frenk, Carlos S., Navarro, Julio F., Jenkins, Adrian, Vogelsberger, Mark, ...

Dark matter is the dominant form of matter in the universe, but its nature is unknown. It is plausibly an elementary particle, perhaps the lightest supersymmetric partner of known particle species....

The Aquarius Project: the subhalos of galactic halos (2008)

Springel, Volker, Wang, Jie, Vogelsberger, Mark, Ludlow, Aaron, Jenkins, Adrian, Helmi, Amina, ...

We have performed the largest ever particle simulation of a Milky Way-sized dark matter halo, and present the most comprehensive convergence study for an individual dark matter halo carried out thus...

Full-sky maps for gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (2008)

Carbone, Carmelita, Springel, Volker, Baccigalupi, Carlo, Bartelmann, Matthias, Matarrese, Sabino

We use the large cosmological Millennium Simulation (MS) to construct the first all-sky maps of the lensing potential and the deflection angle, aiming at gravitational lensing of the CMB, with the...

Effects of Supernova Feedback on the Formation of Galaxies (2008)

Scannapieco, Cecilia, Tissera, Patricia B., White, Simon D. M., Springel, Volker

We study the effects of Supernova (SN) feedback on the formation of galaxies using hydrodynamical simulations in a Lambda-CDM cosmology. We use an extended version of the code GADGET-2 which includes...

Simulations of AGN feedback in galaxy clusters and groups: impact on gas fractions and the Lx-T scaling relation (2008)

Puchwein, Ewald, Sijacki, Debora, Springel, Volker

Recently, rapid observational and theoretical progress has established that black holes (BHs) play a decisive role in the formation and evolution of individual galaxies as well as galaxy groups and...

Effects of Supernova Feedback on the Formation of Galaxy Disks (2008)

Scannapieco, Cecilia, Tissera, Patricia B., White, Simon D. M., Springel, Volker

We use cosmological simulations in order to study the effects of supernova (SN) feedback on the formation of a Milky Way-type galaxy of virial mass ~10^12 M_sun/h. We analyse a set of simulations run...

An ideal mass assignment scheme for measuring the Power Spectrum with FFTs (2008)

Cui, Weiguang, Liu, Lei, Yang, Xiaohu, Wang, Yu, Feng, Longlong, Springel, Volker

In measuring the power spectrum of the distribution of large numbers of dark matter particles in simulations, or galaxies in observations, one has to use Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT) for...

Galaxy morphology, kinematics and clustering in a hydrodynamic simulation of a LambdaCDM universe (2008)

Croft, Rupert A. C., Di Matteo, Tiziana, Springel, Volker, Hernquist, Lars

We explore galaxy properties and their link with environment and clustering using a population of ~1000 galaxies formed in a high resolution hydrodynamic simulation of the Lambda CDM cosmology. At...

Lyman-alpha Emitters and Lyman-break Galaxies at z=3-6 in Cosmological SPH Simulations (2008)

Nagamine, Kentaro, Ouchi, Masami, Springel, Volker, Hernquist, Lars

We study the properties of Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) and Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) at z=3-6 using cosmological SPH simulations. We investigate two simple scenarios for explaining the observed...

The Unorthodox Orbits of Substructure Halos (2008)

Ludlow, Aaron D., Navarro, Julio F., Springel, Volker, Jenkins, Adrian, Frenk, Carlos S., Helmi, Amina

(Abridged) We use cosmological N-body simulations to study the properties of substructure halos in galaxy-sized dark matter halos. We extend prior work on the subject by considering the whole...

Preprint typeset using LATEX style emulateapj v. 9/08/03 MODELING THE DUST PROPERTIES OF Z ∼ 6 QUASARS WITH ART 2 — ALL-WAVELENGTH RADIATIVE TRANSFER WITH ADAPTIVE REFINEMENT TREE (2008)

Yuexing Li, Philip F. Hopkins, Lars Hernquist, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Thomas J. Cox, Volker Springel, ...

The detection of large quantities of dust in z ∼ 6 quasars by infrared and radio surveys presents puzzles for the formation and evolution of dust in these early systems. Previously (Li et al....

Where are the First Stars now? (2007)

Simon White Volker, Volker Springel

. We use high-resolution simulations to show that the current standard paradigm for the growth of structure in the Universe predicts the formation of a galaxy like our own to differ substantially...

Tidal tails in CDM cosmologies (2007)

Volker Springel

We study the formation of tidal tails in pairs of merging disk galaxies with structural properties motivated by current theories of cold dark matter (CDM) cosmologies. In a recent study, Dubinski,...

Estimates For The Luminosity Function And Selection Function Of Redshift Surveys (2007)

Volker Springel, D. M. White

. We present a new method to obtain a non-parametric maximum likelihood estimate of the luminosity function and the selection function of a flux limited redshift survey. The method parameterizes the...

Hot and cooled baryons in smoothed particle hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy clusters: physics and numerics (2007)

Borgani, Stefano, Dolag, Klaus, Murante, Giuseppe, Cheng, L.M., Springel, Volker, Diaferio, Antonaldo, ...

We discuss an extended set of Tree+SPH simulations of galaxy clusters, with the goal of investigating the interplay between numerical resolution effects and star-formation/feedback processes. The...

Full-sky maps for gravitational lensing of the CMB (2007)

Carbone, Carmelita, Springel, Volker, Baccigalupi, Carlo, Bartelmann, Matthias, Matarrese, Sabino

We use the large cosmological Millennium Simulation (MS) to construct the first all-sky maps of the lensing potential and the deflection angle, aiming at gravitational lensing of the CMB, with the...

Modeling the cosmological co-evolution of supermassive black holes and galaxies: I. BH scaling relations and the AGN luminosity function (2007)

Marulli, Federico, Bonoli, Silvia, Branchini, Enzo, Moscardini, Lauro, Springel, Volker

We model the cosmological co-evolution of galaxies and their central supermassive black holes (BHs) within a semi-analytical framework developed on the outputs of the Millennium Simulation. This...

The fine-grained phase-space structure of Cold Dark Matter halos (2007)

Vogelsberger, Mark, White, Simon D. M., Helmi, Amina, Springel, Volker

We present a new and completely general technique for calculating the fine-grained phase-space structure of dark matter throughout the Galactic halo. Our goal is to understand this structure on the...

The redshift dependence of the structure of massive LCDM halos (2007)

Gao, Liang, Navarro, Julio F., Cole, Shaun, Frenk, Carlos, White, Simon D. M., Springel, Volker, ...

(Abridged) We use two very large cosmological simulations to study how the density profiles of relaxed LCDM dark halos depend on redshift and on halo mass. We confirm that these profiles deviate...

Quantifying the Cosmic Web I: The large-scale halo ellipticity-ellipticity and ellipticity-direction correlations (2007)

Lee, Jounghun, Springel, Volker, Pen, Ue-Li, Lemson, Gerard

The formation of dark matter halos tends to occur anisotropically along the filaments of the Cosmic Web, which induces both ellipticity-ellipticity (EE) correlations between the shapes of halos, as...

Simulating cosmic rays in clusters of galaxies - II. A unified scheme for radio halos and relics with predictions of the gamma-ray emission (2007)

Pfrommer, Christoph, Ensslin, Torsten A., Springel, Volker

The thermal plasma of galaxy clusters lost most of its information on how structure formation proceeded as a result of dissipative processes. In contrast, non-equilibrium distributions of cosmic rays...

Modeling the Dust Properties of z ~ 6 Quasars with ART^2 -- All-wavelength Radiative Transfer with Adaptive Refinement Tree (2007)

Li, Yuexing, Hopkins, Philip F., Hernquist, Lars, Finkbeiner, Douglas P., Cox, Thomas J., Springel, Volker, ...

The detection of large quantities of dust in z ~ 6 quasars by infrared and radio surveys presents puzzles for the formation and evolution of dust in these early systems. Previously (Li et al. 2007),...

The statistics of LCDM Halo Concentrations (2007)

Neto, Angelo F., Gao, Liang, Bett, Philip, Cole, Shaun, Navarro, Julio F., Frenk, Carlos S., ...

We use the Millennium Simulation (MS) to study the statistics of LCDM halo concentrations at z = 0. Our results confirm that the average halo concentration declines monotonically with mass; a...

The Cosmic Code Comparison Project (2007)

Heitmann, Katrin, Lukic, Zarija, Fasel, Patricia, Habib, Salman, Warren, Michael S., White, Martin, ...

Current and upcoming cosmological observations allow us to probe structures on smaller and smaller scales, entering highly nonlinear regimes. In order to obtain theoretical predictions in these...

A unified model for AGN feedback in cosmological simulations of structure formation (2007)

Sijacki, Debora, Springel, Volker, Di Matteo, Tiziana, Hernquist, Lars

We discuss a numerical model for black hole growth and its associated feedback processes that for the first time allows cosmological simulations of structure formation to self-consistently follow the...

Direct cosmological simulations of the growth of black holes and galaxies (2007)

Di Matteo, Tiziana, Colberg, Joerg, Springel, Volker, Hernquist, Lars, Sijacki, Debora

We investigate the coupled formation and evolution of galaxies and their embedded supermassive black holes using state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations of cosmological structure formation. For the...

The speed of the `bullet' in the merging galaxy cluster 1E0657-56 (2007)

Springel, Volker, Farrar, Glennys

Deep Chandra exposures of the hot galaxy cluster 1E0657-56 have revealed that the cluster is observed shortly after the first core-passage of a massive infalling subcluster, which is preceded by a...

Simulations of star formation in a gaseous disc around sgr A* - a failed AGN (2007)

Nayakshin, Sergei, Cuadra, Jorge, Springel, Volker

We numerically model fragmentation of a gravitationally unstable gaseous disc under conditions that may be appropriate for the formation of the young massive stars observed in the central parsec of...

Cosmic ray feedback in hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy and galaxy cluster formation (2006)

Pfrommer, Christoph, Springel, Volker, Jubelgas, Martin, Ensslin, Torsten A.

It is well known that cosmic rays (CRs) contribute significantly to the pressure of the interstellar medium in our own Galaxy, suggesting that they may play an important role in regulating star...

Cosmological structure formation shocks and cosmic rays in hydrodynamical simulations (2006)

Pfrommer, Christoph, Springel, Volker, Ensslin, Torsten A., Jubelgas, Martin

Cosmological shock waves during structure formation not only play a decisive role for the thermalization of gas in virializing structures but also for the acceleration of relativistic cosmic rays...

Simulating cosmic rays in clusters of galaxies - I. Effects on the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and the X-ray emission (2006)

Pfrommer, Christoph, Ensslin, Torsten A., Springel, Volker, Jubelgas, Martin, Dolag, Klaus

We performed high-resolution simulations of a sample of 14 galaxy clusters that span a mass range from 5 x 10^13 M_solar/h to 2 x 10^15 M_solar/h to study the effects of cosmic rays (CRs) on thermal...

The role of AGN feedback and gas viscosity in hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters (2006)

Sijacki, Debora, Springel, Volker

We study the imprints of AGN feedback and physical viscosity on the properties of galaxy clusters using hydrodynamical simulation models carried out with the TreeSPH code GADGET-2. Besides...

Fundamental differences between SPH and grid methods (2006)

Agertz, Oscar, Moore, Ben, Stadel, Joachim, Potter, Doug, Miniati, Francesco, Read, Justin, ...

We have carried out a hydrodynamical code comparison study of interacting multiphase fluids. The two commonly used techniques of grid and smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) show striking...

Formation of z ~ 6 quasars from hierarchical galaxy mergers (2006)

Li, Yuexing, Hernquist, Lars, Robertson, Brant, Cox, Thomas J., Hopkins, Philip F., Springel, Volker, ...

The discovery of luminous quasars at redshift z ~ 6 indicates the presence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) of mass ~10^9 Msun when the Universe was less than one billion years old. This finding...

Kinematic Structure of Merger Remnants (2006)

Cox, T. J., Dutta, Suvendra N., Di Matteo, Tiziana, Hernquist, Lars, Hopkins, Philip F., Robertson, Brant, ...

We use numerical simulations to study the kinematic structure of remnants formed from mergers of equal-mass disk galaxies. In particular, we show that remnants of dissipational mergers, which include...

Physical viscosity in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of galaxy clusters (2006)

Sijacki, Debora, Springel, Volker

Most hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy cluster formation carried out to date have tried to model the cosmic gas as an ideal, inviscid fluid, where only a small amount of (unwanted) numerical...

The large-scale structure of the Universe (2006)

Springel, Volker, Frenk, Carlos S., White, Simon D. M.

Research over the past 25 years has led to the view that the rich tapestry of present-day cosmic structure arose during the first instants of creation, where weak ripples were imposed on the...

Feedback and metal enrichment in cosmological SPH simulations - II. A multiphase model with supernova energy feedback (2006)

Scannapieco, Cecilia, Tissera, Patricia B., White, Simon D. M., Springel, Volker

We have developed a new scheme to treat a multiphase interstellar medium in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of galaxy formation. This scheme can represent a co-spatial mixture of cold and...

Substructure in lensing clusters and simulations (2006)

Natarajan, Priyamvada, De Lucia, Gabriella, Springel, Volker

We present high-resolution mass reconstructions for five massive cluster-lenses spanning a redshift range from $z = 0.18$--0.57 utilising archival {\it Hubble Space Telescope} ({\it HST}) data and...

Simulations of Cosmic Chemical Enrichment (2006)

Kobayashi, Chiaki, Springel, Volker, White, Simon D. M.

Using a new numerical model for cosmic chemical evolution, we study the influence of hypernova feedback on the star formation and metal enrichment history of the universe. For assumptions which...

Detecting shock waves in cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations (2006)

Pfrommer, Christoph, Springel, Volker, Ensslin, Torsten A., Jubelgas, Martin

We develop a formalism for the identification and accurate estimation of the strength of structure formation shocks during cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations. Shocks not only...

Cosmic ray feedback in hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation (2006)

Jubelgas, Martin, Springel, Volker, Ensslin, Torsten A., Pfrommer, Christoph

It is well known that cosmic rays (CRs) contribute significantly to the pressure of the interstellar medium in our own Galaxy, suggesting that they may play an important role in regulating star...

Cosmic ray physics in calculations of cosmological structure formation (2006)

Ensslin, Torsten A., Pfrommer, Christoph, Springel, Volker, Jubelgas, Martin

Cosmic rays (CRs) play a decisive role within our own Galaxy. They provide partial pressure support against gravity, they trace past energetic events such as supernovae, and they reveal the...

Erratum - The many lives of AGN: cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies (2006)

Croton, Darren J., Springel, Volker, White, Simon D. M., De Lucia, G., Frenk, C. S., Gao, L., ...

In Figure 6 we inadvertently labeled the proxy circular velocity as the virial velocity of the dark matter halo instead of what is actually plotted, the maximum circular velocity of the dark matter...

The many lives of active galactic nuclei: cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies (2006)

Croton, Darren J., Springel, Volker, White, Simon D. M., De Lucia, G., Frenk, C. S., Gao, L., ...

We simulate the growth of galaxies and their central supermassive black holes by implementing a suite of semi-analytic models on the output of the Millennium Run, a very large simulation of the...

Erratum: the many lives of active galactic nuclei: cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies (2006)

Croton, Darren J., Springel, Volker, White, Simon D. M., De Lucia, G., Frenk, C. S., Gao, L., ...

Corrects an error in 'The many lives of active galactic nuclei: cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies' (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2006) 365,...

Distribution of Damped Lyman-alpha Absorbers in a Lambda Cold Dark Matter Universe (2005)

Nagamine, Kentaro, Wolfe, Arthur M., Hernquist, Lars, Springel, Volker

We present the results of a numerical study of a galactic wind model and its implications on the properties of damped Lyman-alpha absorbers (DLAs) using cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. We vary...

The formation history of elliptical galaxies (2005)

De Lucia, Gabriella, Springel, Volker, White, Simon D. M., Croton, Darren, Kauffmann, Guinevere

We take advantage of the largest high-resolution simulation of cosmic structure growth ever carried out -- the Millennium Simulation of the concordance LambdaCDM cosmogony -- to study how the star...

Hydrodynamical simulations of cluster formation with central AGN heating (2005)

Sijacki, Debora, Springel, Volker

We analyse a hydrodynamical simulation model for the recurrent heating of the central intracluster medium (ICM) by active galactic nuclei (AGN). Besides the self-gravity of the dark matter and gas...

Supernova outflows in galaxy formation (2005)

Scannapieco, Cecilia, Tissera, Patricia B., White, Simon D. M., Springel, Volker

We investigate the generation of galactic outflows by supernova feedback in the context of SPH cosmological simulations. We use a modified version of the code GADGET-2 which includes chemical...

The Evolution in the Faint-End Slope of the Quasar Luminosity Function (2005)

Hopkins, Philip F., Hernquist, Lars, Cox, Thomas J., Di Matteo, Tiziana, Robertson, Brant, Springel, Volker

(Abridged) Based on numerical simulations of galaxy mergers that incorporate black hole (BH) growth, we predict the faint end slope of the quasar luminosity function (QLF) and its evolution with...

Determining the Properties and Evolution of Red Galaxies from the Quasar Luminosity Function (2005)

Hopkins, Philip F., Hernquist, Lars, Cox, Thomas J., Robertson, Brant, Springel, Volker

(Abridged) We study the link between quasars and the red galaxy population using a model for the self-regulated growth of supermassive black holes in mergers involving gas-rich galaxies. Using a...

The many lives of active galactic nuclei: cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies (2005)

Croton, Darren J., Springel, Volker, White, Simon D. M., De Lucia, G., Frenk, C. S., Gao, L., ...

We simulate the growth of galaxies and their central supermassive black holes by implementing a suite of semi-analytic models on the output of the Millennium Run, a very large simulation of the...

The age dependence of halo clustering (2005)

Gao, Liang, Springel, Volker, White, Simon D. M.

We use a very large simulation of the concordance LCDM cosmogony to study the clustering of dark matter haloes. For haloes less massive than about 1e13Msun/h, the amplitude of the two-point...

A Unified, Merger-Driven Model for the Origin of Starbursts, Quasars, the Cosmic X-Ray Background, Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxy Spheroids (2005)

Hopkins, Philip F., Hernquist, Lars, Cox, Thomas J., Di Matteo, Tiziana, Robertson, Brant, Springel, Volker

We present an evolutionary model for starbursts, quasars, and spheroidal galaxies in which mergers between gas-rich galaxies drive nuclear inflows of gas, producing intense starbursts and feeding the...

The Evolution of the M-sigma Relation (2005)

Robertson, Brant, Hernquist, Lars, Cox, Thomas J., Di Matteo, Tiziana, Hopkins, Philip F., Martini, Paul, ...

(Abridged) We examine the evolution of the black hole mass - stellar velocity dispersion (M-sigma) relation over cosmic time using simulations of galaxy mergers that include feedback from...

The cosmological simulation code GADGET-2 (2005)

Springel, Volker

We discuss the cosmological simulation code GADGET-2, a new massively parallel TreeSPH code, capable of following a collisionless fluid with the N-body method, and an ideal gas by means of smoothed...

Testing the accuracy of the Hydro-PM approximation in numerical simulations of the Lyman-alpha forest (2005)

Viel, Matteo, Haehnelt, Martin G., Springel, Volker

We implement the hydro-PM (HPM) technique (Gnedin & Hui 1998) in the hydrodynamical simulation code GADGET-II and quantify the differences between this approximate method and full hydrodynamical...

Constraints on the metagalactic hydrogen ionization rate from the Lyman-alpha forest opacity (2005)

Bolton, James S., Haehnelt, Martin G., Viel, Matteo, Springel, Volker

Understanding the sources responsible for reionizing the Universe is a key goal of observational cosmology. A discrepancy has existed between the metagalactic hydrogen ionization rate, Gamma_HI,...

Luminosity-Dependent Quasar Lifetimes: A New Interpretation of the Quasar Luminosity Function (2005)

Hopkins, Philip F., Hernquist, Lars, Cox, Thomas J., Di Matteo, Tiziana, Robertson, Brant, Springel, Volker

We propose a new interpretation of the quasar luminosity function (LF), derived from physically motivated models of quasar lifetimes and light curves. In our picture, quasars evolve rapidly and their...

Luminosity-Dependent Quasar Lifetimes: Reconciling the Optical and X-ray Quasar Luminosity Functions (2005)

Hopkins, Philip F., Hernquist, Lars, Cox, Thomas J., Di Matteo, Tiziana, Robertson, Brant, Springel, Volker

We consider implications of our new model of quasar lifetimes and light curves for the quasar luminosity function (LF) at different frequencies and redshifts. In our picture, quasars evolve rapidly...

Black Holes in Galaxy Mergers: Evolution of Quasars (2005)

Hopkins, Philip F., Hernquist, Lars, Cox, Thomas J., Di Matteo, Tiziana, Martini, Paul, Robertson, Brant, ...

Based on numerical simulations of gas-rich galaxy mergers, we discuss a model in which quasar activity is tied to the self-regulated growth of supermassive black holes in galaxies. Nuclear inflow of...

X-ray Emission from Hot Gas in Galaxy Mergers (2005)

Cox, T. J., Di Matteo, Tiziana, Hernquist, Lars, Hopkins, Philip F., Robertson, Brant, Springel, Volker

We examine X-ray emission produced from hot gas during collisions and mergers of disk galaxies. To study this process, we employ simulations that incorporate cosmologically motivated disk-galaxy...

Simulating the joint evolution of quasars, galaxies and their large-scale distribution (2005)

Springel, Volker, White, Simon D. M., Jenkins, Adrian, Frenk, Carlos S., Yoshida, Naoki, Gao, Liang, ...

The cold dark matter model has become the leading theoretical paradigm for the formation of structure in the Universe. Together with the theory of cosmic inflation, this model makes a clear...

Lyman Break Galaxies at z = 4 - 6 in cosmological SPH Simulations (2005)

Night, Christopher, Nagamine, Kentaro, Springel, Volker, Hernquist, Lars

We perform a spectrophotometric analysis of galaxies at redshifts z = 4 - 6 in cosmological SPH simulations of a Lambda CDM universe. Our models include radiative cooling and heating by a uniform UV...

A Merger-Driven Scenario for Cosmological Disk Galaxy Formation (2005)

Robertson, Brant, Bullock, James S., Cox, Thomas J., Di Matteo, Tiziana, Hernquist, Lars, Springel, Volker, ...

(Abridged) The violent hierarchical nature of the LCDM cosmology poses serious difficulties for the formation of disk galaxies. To help resolve these issues, we describe a new, merger-driven scenario...

Early structure in LCDM (2005)

Gao, Liang, White, Simon D. M., Jenkins, Adrian, Frenk, Carlos, Springel, Volker

We use a novel technique to simulate the growth of the most massive progenitor of a protocluster region from redshift z~80, when its mass was about 10 Msun until the present day. Our nested sequence...

A Physical Model for the Origin of Quasar Lifetimes (2005)

Hopkins, Philip F., Hernquist, Lars, Martini, Paul, Cox, Thomas J., Robertson, Brant, Di Matteo, Tiziana, ...

We propose a model of quasar lifetimes in which observational quasar lifetimes and an intrinsic lifetime of rapid accretion are strongly distinguished by the physics of obscuration by surrounding gas...

Energy input from quasars regulates the growth and activity of black holes and their host galaxies (2005)

Di Matteo, Tiziana, Springel, Volker, Hernquist, Lars

In the early Universe, while galaxies were still forming, black holes as massive as a billion solar masses powered quasars. Supermassive black holes are found at the centers of most galaxies today,...

Dwarf galaxies in voids: Suppressing star formation with photo-heating (2005)

Hoeft, Matthias, Yepes, Gustavo, Gottloeber, Stefan, Springel, Volker

We study structure formation in cosmological void regions using high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations. Despite being significantly underdense, voids are populated abundantly with small dark...

The cosmological simulation code gadget-2 (2005)

Volker Springel

Cosmological simulations play an ever more important role in theoretical studies of the structure formation process in the Universe. Without numerical simulations, the � cold dark matter (CDM)...

The age dependence of halo clustering (2005)

Liang Gao, Volker Springel

We use a very large simulation of the concordance ΛCDM cosmogony to study the clustering of dark matter haloes. For haloes less massive than about 10 13 h −1 M ⊙ the amplitude of the two-point...

Simulations of the formation, evolution and clustering of galaxies and quasars (2005)

Springel, Volker, White, Simon D. M., Jenkins, Adrian, Frenk, Carlos S., Yoshida, Naoki, Gao, Liang, ...

The cold dark matter model has become the leading theoretical picture for the formation of structure in the Universe. This model, together with the theory of cosmic inflation, makes a clear...

Abundance of substructure in clusters of galaxies (2004)

Natarajan, Priyamvada, Springel, Volker

It is widely recognized that cold dark matter models predict abundant dark matter substructure in halos of all sizes. Galaxy-galaxy lensing provides a unique opportunity to directly measure the...

Formation of a spiral galaxy in a major merger (2004)

Springel, Volker, Hernquist, Lars

We use numerical simulations to examine the structure of merger remnants resulting from collisions of gas-rich spiral galaxies. When the gas fraction of the progenitors is small, the remnants...

Massive galaxies at redshift 2 in cosmological hydrodynamic simulations (2004)

Nagamine, Kentaro, Cen, Renyue, Hernquist, Lars, Ostriker, Jeremiah P., Springel, Volker

We study the properties of galaxies at z=2 in a Lambda cold dark matter universe, using two different types of hydrodynamic simulation methods -- Eulerian TVD and smoothed particle hydrodynamics...

Modeling feedback from stars and black holes in galaxy mergers (2004)

Springel, Volker, Di Matteo, Tiziana, Hernquist, Lars

We describe techniques for incorporating feedback from star formation and black hole accretion into simulations of isolated and merging galaxies. At present, the details of these processes cannot be...

The Lyman-alpha forest opacity and the metagalactic hydrogen ionization rate at z~2-4 (2004)

Bolton, James S., Haehnelt, Martin G., Viel, Matteo, Springel, Volker

Estimates of the metagalactic hydrogen ionization rate from the Lyman-alpha forest opacity in QSO absorption spectra depend on the complex density distribution of neutral hydrogen along the...

Confronting cosmological simulations with observations of intergalactic metals (2004)

Aguirre, Anthony, Schaye, Joop, Hernquist, Lars, Kay, Scott, Springel, Volker, Theuns, Tom

Using the statistics of pixel optical depths, we compare HI, CIV and CIII absorption in a set of six high quality z ~ 3-4 quasar absorption spectra to that in spectra drawn from two different...

Constrained Simulations of the Magnetic Field in the Local Universe and the Propagation of UHECRs (2004)

Dolag, Klaus, Grasso, Dario, Springel, Volker, Tkachev, Igor

We use simulations of LSS formation to study the build-up of magnetic fields (MFs) in the ICM. Our basic assumption is that cosmological MFs grow in a MHD amplification process driven by structure...

Lyman-alpha Emission from Structure Formation (2004)

Furlanetto, Steven, Schaye, Joop, Springel, Volker, Hernquist, Lars

The nature of the interaction between galaxies and the intergalactic medium (IGM) is one of the most fundamental problems in astrophysics. The accretion of gas onto galaxies provides fuel for star...

Black holes in galaxy mergers: The formation of red elliptical galaxies (2004)

Springel, Volker, Di Matteo, Tiziana, Hernquist, Lars

We use hydrodynamical simulations to study the color transformations induced by star formation and active galactic nuclei (AGN) during major mergers of spiral galaxies. Our modeling accounts for...

Detecting Sunyaev-Zel'dovich clusters with PLANCK: I. Construction of all-sky thermal and kinetic SZ-maps (2004)

Schaefer, Bjoern Malte, Pfrommer, Christoph, Bartelmann, Matthias, Springel, Volker, Hernquist, Lars

All-sky thermal and kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) maps are presented for assessing how well the PLANCK-mission can find and characterise clusters of galaxies, especially in the presence of primary...

Massive galaxies in cosmological simulations: UV-selected sample at redshift z=2 (2004)

Nagamine, Kentaro, Cen, Renyue, Hernquist, Lars, Ostriker, Jeremiah P., Springel, Volker

We study the properties of galaxies at z=2 in a Lambda CDM universe, using two different types of hydrodynamic simulation methods (Eulerian TVD and SPH) and a spectrophotometric analysis in the Un,...

Inferring the dark matter power spectrum from the Lyman-alpha forest in high-resolution QSO absorption spectra (2004)

Viel, Matteo, Haehnelt, Martin G., Springel, Volker

We use the LUQAS sample (Kim et al. 2004), a set of 27 high-resolution and high signal-to-noise QSO absorption spectra at a median redshift of z=2.25, and the data from Croft et al. (2002) at a...

The subhalo populations of LCDM dark haloes (2004)

Gao, Liang, White, Simon D. M., Jenkins, Adrian, Stoehr, Felix, Springel, Volker

We use a large cosmological simulation and a variety of high resolution resimulations of individual cluster and galaxy haloes to study the systematics of subhalo populations over ranges of 1000 in...

The inner structure of ΛCDM haloes – II. Halo mass profiles and low surface brightness galaxy rotation curves (2004)

Hayashi, Eric, Navarro, Julio F., Power, Chris, Jenkins, Adrian, Frenk, Carlos S., White, Simon D., ...

We use a set of high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations to investigate the inner mass profile of galaxy-sized cold dark matter (CDM) haloes. These simulations extend the numerical convergence...

The inner structure of ΛCDM haloes – II. Halo mass profiles and low surface brightness galaxy rotation curves (2004)

Hayashi, Eric, Navarro, Julio F., Power, Chris, Jenkins, Adrian, Frenk, Carlos S., White, Simon D., ...

We use a set of high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations to investigate the inner mass profile of galaxy-sized cold dark matter (CDM) haloes. These simulations extend the numerical convergence...

The inner structure of ΛCDM haloes – II. Halo mass profiles and low surface brightness galaxy rotation curves (2004)

Hayashi, Eric, Navarro, Julio F., Power, Chris, Jenkins, Adrian, Frenk, Carlos S., White, Simon D., ...

We use a set of high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations to investigate the inner mass profile of galaxy-sized cold dark matter (CDM) haloes. These simulations extend the numerical convergence...

The inner structure of ΛCDM haloes – II. Halo mass profiles and low surface brightness galaxy rotation curves (2004)

Hayashi, Eric, Navarro, Julio F., Power, Chris, Jenkins, Adrian, Frenk, Carlos S., White, Simon D., ...

We use a set of high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations to investigate the inner mass profile of galaxy-sized cold dark matter (CDM) haloes. These simulations extend the numerical convergence...

The inner structure of ΛCDM haloes – II. Halo mass profiles and low surface brightness galaxy rotation curves (2004)

Hayashi, Eric, Navarro, Julio F., Power, Chris, Jenkins, Adrian, Frenk, Carlos S., White, Simon D., ...

We use a set of high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations to investigate the inner mass profile of galaxy-sized cold dark matter (CDM) haloes. These simulations extend the numerical convergence...

Comparing AMR and SPH Cosmological Simulations: I. Dark Matter & Adiabatic Simulations (2003)

O'Shea, Brian W., Nagamine, Kentaro, Springel, Volker, Hernquist, Lars, Norman, Michael L.

We compare two cosmological hydrodynamic simulation codes in the context of hierarchical galaxy formation: The SPH code GADGET, and the Eulerian AMR code ENZO. Both codes represent dark matter with...

Is There a Missing Galaxy Problem at High Redshift? (2003)

Nagamine, Kentaro, Cen, Renyue, Hernquist, Lars, Ostriker, Jeremiah P., Springel, Volker

We study the evolution of the global stellar mass density in a Lambda cold dark matter universe using two different types of hydrodynamical simulations (Eulerian TVD and SPH) and the analytical model...

Photometric Properties of Lyman-break Galaxies at z=3 in Cosmological SPH Simulations (2003)

Nagamine, Kentaro, Springel, Volker, Hernquist, Lars, Machacek, Marie

We study the photometric properties of Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) formed by redshift z=3 in a set of large cosmological smoothed-particle hydrodynamics simulations of the Lambda cold dark matter...

The Inner Structure of LambdaCDM Halos III: Universality and Asymptotic Slopes (2003)

Navarro, Julio F., Hayashi, Eric, Power, Chris, Jenkins, Adrian, Frenk, Carlos S., White, Simon D. M., ...

We investigate the mass profile of LambdaCDM halos using a suite of numerical simulations spanning five decades in halo mass, from dwarf galaxies to rich galaxy clusters. Our analysis confirms the...

Mapping deflections of extragalactic Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays in magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the Local Universe (2003)

Dolag, Klaus, Grasso, Dario, Springel, Volker, Tkachev, Igor

We construct a map of deflections of ultra-high energy cosmic rays by extragalactic magnetic fields using a magneto-hydrodynamical simulation of cosmic structure formation that realistically...

Mapping the Cosmic Web with Ly-alpha Emission (2003)

Furlanetto, Steven, Schaye, Joop, Springel, Volker, Hernquist, Lars

We use a high-resolution cosmological simulation to predict the distribution of HI Ly-alpha emission from the low-redshift (z10^2 kpc) ``coronae'' of optically thin gas with Ly-alpha surface...

Damped Lyman-alpha Absorbers in Cosmological SPH Simulations: the "metallicity problem" (2003)

Nagamine, Kentaro, Springel, Volker, Hernquist, Lars

We study the distribution of star formation rate (SFR) and metallicity of damped Lyman-alpha absorbers (DLAs) using cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of the Lambda cold...

Searching for Star Formation Beyond Reionization (2003)

Barton, Elizabeth J., Dav'e, Romeel, Smith, John-David T., Papovich, Casey, Hernquist, Lars, Springel, Volker

The goal of searching back in cosmic time to find star formation during the epoch of reionization will soon be within reach. We assess the detectability of high-redshift galaxies by combining...

Ultraviolet Line Emission from Metals in the Low-Redshift Intergalactic Medium (2003)

Furlanetto, Steven, Schaye, Joop, Springel, Volker, Hernquist, Lars

We use a high-resolution cosmological simulation that includes hydrodynamics, multiphase star formation, and galactic winds to predict the distribution of metal line emission at z~0 from the...

The cosmological evolution of metal enrichment in quasar host galaxies (2003)

Di Matteo, Tiziana, Croft, Rupert A. C., Springel, Volker, Hernquist, Lars

We study the gas metallicity of quasar hosts using cosmological hydrodynamic simulations of the Lambda-cold dark matter model. Galaxy formation in the simulations is coupled with a prescription for...

Cosmic Reionisation by Stellar Sources: Population III Stars (2003)

Sokasian, Aaron, Yoshida, Naoki, Abel, Tom, Hernquist, Lars, Springel, Volker

We combine fast radiative transfer calculations with high resolution hydrodynamical simulations to study an epoch of early hydrogen reionisation by primordial stellar sources at redshifts 15

Dark matter annihilation in the halo of the Milky Way (2003)

Stoehr, Felix, White, Simon D. M., Springel, Volker, Tormen, Giuseppe, Yoshida, Naoki

If the dark matter in the Universe is made of weakly self-interacting particles, they may self-annihilate and emit gamma-rays. We use high resolution numerical simulations to estimate directly the...

Early Structure Formation and Reionization in a Cosmological Model with a Running Primordial Power Spectrum (2003)

Yoshida, Naoki, Sokasian, Aaron, Hernquist, Lars, Springel, Volker

(abridged) We study high redshift structure formation and reionization in a LCDM universe under the assumption that the spectral power index of primordial density fluctuations is a function of length...

Star formation rate and metallicity of damped Lyman-alpha absorbers in cosmological SPH simulations (2003)

Nagamine, Kentaro, Springel, Volker, Hernquist, Lars

We study the distribution of the star formation rate and metallicity of damped Lyman-alpha absorbers using cosmological SPH simulations of the Lambda cold dark matter model in the redshift range...

Early Structure Formation and Reionization in a Warm Dark Matter Cosmology (2003)

Yoshida, Naoki, Sokasian, Aaron, Hernquist, Lars, Springel, Volker

We study first structure formation in Lambda-dominated universes using large cosmological N-body/SPH simulations. We consider a standard LCDM model and a LWDM model in which the mass of the dark...

Cosmic Reionisation by Stellar Sources: Population II Stars (2003)

Sokasian, Aaron, Abel, Tom, Hernquist, Lars, Springel, Volker

We study the reionisation of the Universe by stellar sources using a numerical approach that combines fast 3D radiative transfer calculations with high resolution hydrodynamical simulations. Ionising...

Abundance of damped Lyman-alpha absorbers in cosmological SPH simulations (2003)

Nagamine, Kentaro, Springel, Volker, Hernquist, Lars

We use cosmological smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of the Lambda cold dark matter (CDM) model to study the abundance of damped Lyman-alpha absorbers (DLAs) in the redshift range...

Black hole growth and activity in a LambdaCDM Universe (2003)

Di Matteo, Tiziana, Croft, Rupert A. C., Springel, Volker, Hernquist, Lars

(abridged) The observed properties of supermassive black holes suggest a fundamental link between their assembly and the formation of their host spheroids. We model the growth and activity of black...

Cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations: a hybrid multiphase model for star formation (2003)

Springel, Volker, Hernquist, Lars

We present a model for star formation and supernova feedback that describes the multiphase structure of star-forming gas on scales that are typically not resolved in cosmological simulations. Our...

The history of star formation in a Lambda cold dark matter universe (2003)

Springel, Volker, Hernquist, Lars

Employing hydrodynamic simulations of structure formation in a Lambda cold dark matter cosmology, we study the history of cosmic star formation from the 'dark ages' at redshift z similar to 20 to the...

The phase-space structure of cold dark matter haloes : insights into the Galactic halo (2003)

Helmi, A., White, Simon D. M., Springel, Volker

We study the formation of the halo of the Milky Way in a Lambda-cold dark matter (LambdaCDM) cosmology by scaling down a high-resolution simulation of the formation of a cluster of galaxies. We...

An analytical model for the history of cosmic star formation (2002)

Hernquist, Lars, Springel, Volker

We use simple analytic reasoning to identify physical processes that drive the evolution of the cosmic star formation density in cold dark matter universes. Based on our analysis, we formulate a...

The phase-space structure of cold dark-matter halos: Insights into the Galactic halo (2002)

Helmi, Amina, White, Simon D. M., Springel, Volker

We study the formation of the Milky Way's halo in a $\Lambda$CDM cosmology by scaling down a high resolution simulation of the formation of a cluster of galaxies. We determine how much phase-space...

Cosmological SPH simulations: A hybrid multi-phase model for star formation (2002)

Springel, Volker, Hernquist, Lars

We present a model for star formation and supernova feedback that describes the multi-phase structure of star forming gas on scales that are typically not resolved in cosmological simulations. Our...

The history of star formation in a LCDM universe (2002)

Springel, Volker, Hernquist, Lars

Employing hydrodynamic simulations of structure formation in a LCDM cosmology, we study the history of cosmic star formation from the "dark ages" at redshift z~20 to the present. In addition to...

Simulating the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect(s): including radiative cooling and energy injection by galactic winds (2002)

White, Martin, Hernquist, Lars, Springel, Volker

We present results on the thermal and kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effects from a sequence of high resolution hydrodynamic simulations of structure formation, including cooling, feedback and metal...

High redshift galaxies and the Lyman-alpha forest in a CDM universe (2002)

Croft, Rupert A. C., Hernquist, Lars, Springel, Volker, Westover, Michael, White, Martin

We use a cosmological hydrodynamic simulation of a cold dark matter universe to investigate theoretically the relationship between high redshift galaxies and the Lyman=alpha forest at redshift z=3....

The Milky Way's satellite population in a LambdaCDM universe (2002)

Stoehr, Felix, White, Simon D. M., Tormen, Giuseppe, Springel, Volker

We compare the structure and kinematics of the 11 known satellites of the Milky Way with high resolution simulations of the formation of its dark halo in a LambdaCDM universe. In contrast to earlier...

Gas cooling in simulations of the formation of the galaxy population (2002)

Yoshida, Naoki, Stoehr, Felix, Springel, Volker, White, Simon D. M.

We compare two techniques for following the cooling of gas and its condensation into galaxies within high resolution simulations of cosmologically representative regions. Both techniques treat the...

Gamma-Rays from Intergalactic Shocks (2002)

Keshet, Uri, Waxman, Eli, Loeb, Abraham, Springel, Volker, Hernquist, Lars

Structure formation in the intergalactic medium (IGM) produces large-scale, collisionless shock waves, where electrons can accelerate to highly relativistic energies. Such electrons can Compton...

The phase-space structure of a dark-matter halo: Implications for dark-matter direct detection experiments (2002)

Helmi, Amina, White, Simon D. M., Springel, Volker

We study the phase-space structure of a dark-matter halo formed in a high resolution simulation of a Lambda CDM cosmology. Our goal is to quantify how much substructure is left over from the...

Cosmological SPH simulations: The entropy equation (2001)

Springel, Volker, Hernquist, Lars

We discuss differences in simulation results that arise between the use of either the thermal energy or the entropy as an independent variable in smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). In this...

On the phase-space structure of the Milky Way dark-matter halo (2001)

Helmi, Amina, Springel, Volker, White, Simon D. M.

We analyse a high resolution simulation of the formation of a cluster's dark-matter halo in a $\Lambda$CDM cosmology (Springel et al. 2001). The resolution achieved allows us to map the phase-space...

The distribution of mass around galaxies (2001)

White, Martin, Hernquist, Lars, Springel, Volker

We explore the distribution of mass about the expected sites of galaxy formation in a high-resolution hydrodynamical simulation of a LCDM cosmology which includes cooling, star-formation and...

The halo model and numerical simulations (2000)

White, Martin, Hernquist, Lars, Springel, Volker

Recently there has been a lot of attention focussed on a virialized halo-based approach to understanding the properties of the matter and galaxy power spectrum. A key ingredient in this model is the...

Populating a cluster of galaxies - I. Results at z=0 (2000)

Springel, Volker, White, Simon, Tormen, Giuseppe, Kauffmann, Guinevere

We simulate the assembly of a massive rich cluster and the formation of its constituent galaxies in a flat, low-density universe. Our most accurate model follows the collapse, the star-formation...

Giant cluster arcs as a constraint on the scattering cross-section of dark matter (2000)

Meneghetti, Massimo, Yoshida, Naoki, Bartelmann, Matthias, Moscardini, Lauro, Springel, Volker, Tormen, Giuseppe, ...

We carry out ray tracing through five high resolution simulations of a galaxy cluster to study how its ability to produce giant gravitationally lensed arcs is influenced by the collision...

Hydrodynamic Simulations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect(s) (2000)

Springel, Volker, White, Martin, Hernquist, Lars

We have performed a sequence of high resolution hydrodynamic simulations of structure formation in a LCDM model to study the thermal and kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effects. Including only...

Weakly Self-Interacting Dark Matter and the Structure of Dark Halos (2000)

Yoshida, Naoki, Springel, Volker, White, Simon D. M., Tormen, Giuseppe

We study the formation of dark halos in a $\Lambda$CDM universe under the assumption that Cold Dark Matter particles have a finite cross-section for elastic collisions. We compare evolution when CDM...

GADGET: A code for collisionless and gasdynamical cosmological simulations (2000)

Springel, Volker, Yoshida, Naoki, White, Simon D. M.

We describe the newly written code GADGET which is suitable both for cosmological simulations of structure formation and for the simulation of interacting galaxies. GADGET evolves self-gravitating...

Where are the First Stars now? (1999)

White, Simon D. M., Springel, Volker

We use high-resolution simulations to show that the current standard paradigm for the growth of structure in the Universe predicts the formation of a galaxy like our own to differ substantially from...

On the formation and evolution of galaxies / (1999)

Springel, Volker.

München, University, Diss., 2000 (Nicht für den Austausch).

Dynamics of pairwise motions (1998)

Juszkiewicz, Roman, Springel, Volker, Durrer, Ruth

We derive a simple closed-form expression, relating $\vs(r)$ -- the mean relative velocity of pairs of galaxies at fixed separation $r$ -- to the two-point correlation function of mass density...

Tidal tails in CDM cosmologies (1998)

Springel, Volker, White, Simon D. M.

We study the formation of tidal tails in pairs of merging disk galaxies with structural properties motivated by current theories of cold dark matter (CDM) cosmologies. In a recent study, Dubinski,...

Genus statistics of the Virgo N–body simulations and the 1.2Jy redshift survey (1998)

Volker Springel, Jrg M. Colberg, George P. Efstathiou, Carlos S. Frenk, ...

We study the topology of the Virgo N-body simulations and compare it with the 1.2-Jy redshift survey of IRAS galaxies by means of the genus statistic. Four high-resolution simulations of variants of...

Estimates for the Luminosity Function of Galaxies and its Evolution (1997)

Springel, Volker, White, Simon D. M.

A new method is presented to obtain a non-parametric maximum likelihood estimate of the luminosity function and the selection function of a flux limited redshift survey. The method parameterizes the...