Open Group Seminar - Joop Schaye

3:00–4:30 pm ERC 401

Title: The FLAMINGO simulations of large-scale structure and galaxy clusters


Abstract: Observational surveys of the distribution of matter in the universe are becoming ever more precise and continue to be extended to smaller scales. This necessitates accounting for the fact that baryons do not precisely trace the dark matter. The redistribution of baryons by galactic winds, which is the major bottleneck in our understanding of  galaxy evolution, therefore requires a convergence between models of large-scale structure and cosmology. I will present results from the FLAMINGO suite of large-volume cosmological, hydrodynamical simulations. The fiducial simulations have been calibrated using machine learning to reproduce the low-z galaxy mass function and cluster gas fractions, but the suite also includes systematic variations in the galaxy formation model and cosmology. The simulations provide insight into the importance of baryonic effects for cosmology using large-scale structure and galaxy clusters.

Event Type

Seminars, Talks

Oct 11