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The Illustris++ Project: The Next Generation of Cosmological Hydrodynamical Simulations of Galaxy Formation

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High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering ´16

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Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation provide the most powerful technique for calculating the non-linear evolution of cosmic structure formation. This approach starts from initial conditions determined during the Big Bang – which are precisely specified in the cosmological standard model – and evolves them forward in time to the present epoch, thereby providing detailed predictions that test the cosmological paradigm. Here we report first preliminary results from a new generation of hydrodynamical simulations that excel with new physics, enlarged dynamic range and more accurate numerical techniques. The simulations of our ongoing Illustris++ project on HazelHen successfully reproduce the appearance of a red sequence of galaxies that are quenched by accreting supermassive black holes, while at the same time yielding a population of disk galaxies with properties that closely match observational data. Also, we are able to predict the amplification of magnetic fields through small-scale dynamo processes in realistic simulations of large galaxy populations, thereby providing novel predictions for the field strength and topology expected for galaxies of different size and type.

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Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge computer time through the project GCS-ILLU on Hornet/HazelHen at HLRS. We acknowledge financial support through subproject EXAMAG of the Priority Programme 1648 ‘SPPEXA’ of the German Science Foundation, and through the European Research Council through ERC-StG grant EXAGAL-308037, and we would like to thank the Klaus Tschira Foundation.

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  1. Astronomisches Recheninstitut, Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg, Mönchhofstr. 12–14, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    Volker Springel

  2. Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 35, 69118, Heidelberg, Germany

    Volker Springel, Rainer Weinberger & Rüdiger Pakmor

  3. Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy, Königstuhl 17, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany

    Annalisa Pillepich

  4. Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University, 60 Garden Street, 02138, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Lars Hernquist & Jill Naiman

  5. Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, 85740, Garching, Germany

    Dylan Nelson

  6. Department of Astronomy, Columbia University, 550 W. 120th St., 10027, New York, NY, USA

    Shy Genel

  7. Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, MIT, 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Mark Vogelsberger, Federico Marinacci & Paul Torrey

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Springel, V. et al. (2016). The Illustris++ Project: The Next Generation of Cosmological Hydrodynamical Simulations of Galaxy Formation. In: Nagel, W.E., Kröner, D.H., Resch, M.M. (eds) High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering ´16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47066-5_1

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