Professor Adrian Jenkins' Outputs (144)

Indra: a public computationally accessible suite of cosmological N-body simulations (2021)
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Falck, B., Wang, J., Jenkins, A., Lemson, G., Medvedev, D., Neyrinck, M. C., & Szalay, A. S. (2021). Indra: a public computationally accessible suite of cosmological N-body simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 506(2), 2659-2670. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1823

Indra is a suite of large-volume cosmological N-body simulations with the goal of providing excellent statistics of the large-scale features of the distribution of dark matter. Each of the 384 simulations is computed with the same cosmological parame... Read More about Indra: a public computationally accessible suite of cosmological N-body simulations.

The origin of X-ray coronae around simulated disc galaxies (2021)
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Kelly, A. J., Jenkins, A., & Frenk, C. S. (2021). The origin of X-ray coronae around simulated disc galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 502(2), 2934-2951. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab255

The existence of hot, accreted gaseous coronae around massive galaxies is a long-standing central prediction of galaxy formation models in the ΛCDM cosmology. While observations now confirm that extraplanar hot gas is present around late-type galaxie... Read More about The origin of X-ray coronae around simulated disc galaxies.

Setting the stage: structures from Gaussian random fields (2021)
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Sawala, T., Jenkins, A., McAlpine, S., Jasche, J., Lavaux, G., Johansson, P. H., & Frenk, C. S. (2021). Setting the stage: structures from Gaussian random fields. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 501(4), 4759-4776. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3568

We study structure formation in a set of cosmological simulations to uncover the scales in the initial density field that gave rise to the formation of present-day structures. Our simulations share a common primordial power spectrum (here Λ cold dark... Read More about Setting the stage: structures from Gaussian random fields.

A high-resolution cosmological simulation of a strong gravitational lens (2021)
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Richings, J., Frenk, C., Jenkins, A., Robertson, A., & Schaller, M. (2021). A high-resolution cosmological simulation of a strong gravitational lens. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 501(3), 4657-4668. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa4013

We present a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation of a 1013 M⊙ galaxy group and its environment (out to 10 times the virial radius) carried out using the EAGLE model of galaxy formation. Exploiting a novel technique to increase the resolution of th... Read More about A high-resolution cosmological simulation of a strong gravitational lens.

Universal structure of dark matter haloes over a mass range of 20 orders of magnitude (2020)
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Wang, J., Bose, S., Frenk, C., Gao, L., Jenkins, A., Springel, V., & White, S. (2020). Universal structure of dark matter haloes over a mass range of 20 orders of magnitude. Nature, 585(7823), 39-42. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2642-9

Cosmological models in which dark matter consists of cold elementary particles predict that the dark halo population should extend to masses many orders of magnitude below those at which galaxies can form1,2,3. Here we report a cosmological simulatio... Read More about Universal structure of dark matter haloes over a mass range of 20 orders of magnitude.

Subhalo destruction in the Apostle and Auriga simulations (2019)
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Richings, J., Frenk, C., Jenkins, A., Robertson, A., Fattahi, A., Grand, R. J., Navarro, J., Pakmor, R., Gomez, F. A., Marinacci, F., & Oman, K. (2020). Subhalo destruction in the Apostle and Auriga simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(4), 5780-5793. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3448

N-body simulations make unambiguous predictions for the abundance of substructures within dark matter halos. However, the inclusion of baryons in the simulations changes the picture because processes associated with the presence of a large galaxy in... Read More about Subhalo destruction in the Apostle and Auriga simulations.

No cores in dark matter-dominated dwarf galaxies with bursty star formation histories (2019)
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Bose, S., Frenk, C. S., Jenkins, A., Fattahi, A., Gómez, F. A., Grand, R. J., Marinacci, F., Navarro, J. F., Oman, K. A., Pakmor, R., Schaye, J., Simpson, C. M., & Springel, V. (2019). No cores in dark matter-dominated dwarf galaxies with bursty star formation histories. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486(4), 4790-4804. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1168

Measurements of the rotation curves of dwarf galaxies are often interpreted as requiring a constant density core at the centre, at odds with the “cuspy” inner profiles predicted by N-body simulations of cold dark matter (CDM) haloes. It has been sugg... Read More about No cores in dark matter-dominated dwarf galaxies with bursty star formation histories.

The total satellite population of the Milky Way (2018)
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Newton, O., Cautun, M., Jenkins, A., Frenk, C. S., & Helly, J. C. (2018). The total satellite population of the Milky Way. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479(3), 2853-2870. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1085

The total number and luminosity function of the population of dwarf galaxies of the Milky Way (MW) provide important constraints on the nature of the dark matter and on the astrophysics of galaxy formation at low masses. However, only a partial censu... Read More about The total satellite population of the Milky Way.

The Cluster-EAGLE project: global properties of simulated clusters with resolved galaxies (2017)
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Barnes, D. J., Kay, S. T., Bahé, Y. M., Dalla Vecchia, C., McCarthy, I. G., Schaye, J., …White, S. D. (2017). The Cluster-EAGLE project: global properties of simulated clusters with resolved galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471(1), 1088-1106. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1647

We introduce the Cluster-EAGLE (C-EAGLE) simulation project, a set of cosmological hydrodynamical zoom simulations of the formation of 30 galaxy clusters in the mass range of 1014 < M200/M⊙ < 1015.4 that incorporates the Hydrangea sample of Bahé et a... Read More about The Cluster-EAGLE project: global properties of simulated clusters with resolved galaxies.

The Hydrangea simulations: galaxy formation in and around massive clusters (2017)
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Bahé, Y., Barnes, D., Dalla Vecchia, C., Kay, S., White, S., McCarthy, I., …Trayford, J. (2017). The Hydrangea simulations: galaxy formation in and around massive clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470(4), 4186-4208. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1403

We introduce the Hydrangea simulations, a suite of 24 cosmological hydrodynamic zoom-in simulations of massive galaxy clusters (M200c = 1014–1015.4 M⊙) with baryon particle masses of ∼106 M⊙. Designed to study the impact of the cluster environment on... Read More about The Hydrangea simulations: galaxy formation in and around massive clusters.

Knowing the unknowns: uncertainties in simple estimators of galactic dynamical masses (2017)
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Campbell, D. J., Frenk, C. S., Jenkins, A., Eke, V. R., Navarro, J. F., Sawala, T., …Theuns, T. (2017). Knowing the unknowns: uncertainties in simple estimators of galactic dynamical masses. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 469(2), 2335-2360. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx975

The observed stellar kinematics of dispersion-supported galaxies are often used to measure dynamical masses. Recently, several analytical relationships between the stellar line-of-sight velocity dispersion, the projected (2D) or deprojected (3D) half... Read More about Knowing the unknowns: uncertainties in simple estimators of galactic dynamical masses.

The Auriga Project: the properties and formation mechanisms of disc galaxies across cosmic time (2017)
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Grand, R., Gómez, F., Marinacci, F., Pakmor, R., Springel, V., Campbell, D., …White, S. (2017). The Auriga Project: the properties and formation mechanisms of disc galaxies across cosmic time. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 467(1), 179-207. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx071

We introduce a suite of 30 cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical zoom simulations of the formation of galaxies in isolated Milky Way mass dark haloes. These were carried out with the moving mesh code arepo, together with a comprehensive model for galax... Read More about The Auriga Project: the properties and formation mechanisms of disc galaxies across cosmic time.

The redshift evolution of massive galaxy clusters in the MACSIS simulations (2016)
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Barnes, D., Kay, S., Henson, M., McCarthy, I., Schaye, J., & Jenkins, A. (2017). The redshift evolution of massive galaxy clusters in the MACSIS simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465(1), 213-233. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2722

We present the MAssive ClusterS and Intercluster Structures (MACSIS) project, a suite of 390 clusters simulated with baryonic physics that yields realistic massive galaxy clusters capable of matching a wide range of observed properties. MACSIS extend... Read More about The redshift evolution of massive galaxy clusters in the MACSIS simulations.

Substructure and galaxy formation in the Copernicus Complexio warm dark matter simulations (2016)
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Bose, S., Hellwing, W., Frenk, C., Jenkins, A., Lovell, M., Helly, J., …Gao, L. (2017). Substructure and galaxy formation in the Copernicus Complexio warm dark matter simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(4), 4520-4533. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2686

We use the Copernicus Complexio (coco) high-resolution N-body simulations to investigate differences in the properties of small-scale structures in the standard cold dark matter (CDM) model and in a model with a cutoff in the initial power spectrum o... Read More about Substructure and galaxy formation in the Copernicus Complexio warm dark matter simulations.

The EAGLE simulations of galaxy formation: Public release of halo and galaxy catalogues (2016)
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McAlpine, S., Helly, J., Schaller, M., Trayford, J., Qu, Y., Furlong, M., …Lemson, G. (2016). The EAGLE simulations of galaxy formation: Public release of halo and galaxy catalogues. Astronomy and computing, 15, 72-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2016.02.004

We present the public data release of halo and galaxy catalogues extracted from the eagle suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation. These simulations were performed with an enhanced version of the gadget code that includes... Read More about The EAGLE simulations of galaxy formation: Public release of halo and galaxy catalogues.

Vertical disc heating in Milky Way-sized galaxies in a cosmological context (2016)
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Grand, R., Springel, V., Gómez, F., Marinacci, F., Pakmor, R., Campbell, D., & Jenkins, A. (2016). Vertical disc heating in Milky Way-sized galaxies in a cosmological context. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 459(1), 199-219. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw601

Vertically extended, high velocity dispersion stellar distributions appear to be a ubiquitous feature of disc galaxies, and both internal and external mechanisms have been proposed to be the major driver of their formation. However, it is unclear to... Read More about Vertical disc heating in Milky Way-sized galaxies in a cosmological context.

The Copernicus Complexio: a high-resolution view of the small-scale Universe (2016)
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Hellwing, W., Frenk, C., Cautun, M., Bose, S., Helly, J., Jenkins, A., …Cytowski, M. (2016). The Copernicus Complexio: a high-resolution view of the small-scale Universe. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 457(4), 3492-3509. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw214

We introduce Copernicus Complexio (COCO), a high-resolution cosmological N-body simulation of structure formation in the ΛCDM model. COCO follows an approximately spherical region of radius ∼17.4 h−1 Mpc embedded in a much larger periodic cube that i... Read More about The Copernicus Complexio: a high-resolution view of the small-scale Universe.

The APOSTLE simulations: solutions to the Local Group's cosmic puzzles (2016)
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Sawala, T., Frenk, C. S., Fattahi, A., Navarro, J. F., Bower, R. G., Crain, R. A., …White, S. D. (2016). The APOSTLE simulations: solutions to the Local Group's cosmic puzzles. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 457(2), 1931-1943. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw145

The Local Group galaxies offer some of the most discriminating tests of models of cosmic structure formation. For example, observations of the Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda satellite populations appear to be in disagreement with N-body simulations of... Read More about The APOSTLE simulations: solutions to the Local Group's cosmic puzzles.

The APOSTLE project: Local Group kinematic mass constraints and simulation candidate selection (2016)
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Fattahi, A., Navarro, J. F., Sawala, T., Frenk, C. S., Oman, K. A., Crain, R. A., …Jenkins, A. (2016). The APOSTLE project: Local Group kinematic mass constraints and simulation candidate selection. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 457(1), 844-856. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2970

We use a large sample of isolated dark matter halo pairs drawn from cosmological N-body simulations to identify candidate systems whose kinematics match that of the Local Group (LG) of galaxies. We find, in agreement with the ‘timing argument’ and ea... Read More about The APOSTLE project: Local Group kinematic mass constraints and simulation candidate selection.

The chosen few: the low-mass haloes that host faint galaxies (2015)
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Sawala, T., Frenk, C. S., Fattahi, A., Navarro, J. F., Theuns, T., Bower, R. G., …Schaye, J. (2016). The chosen few: the low-mass haloes that host faint galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456(1), 85-97. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2597

Since reionization prevents star formation in most haloes less massive than 3 × 109 M⊙, dwarf galaxies only populate a fraction of existing dark matter haloes. We use hydrodynamic cosmological simulations of the Local Group to study the discriminatin... Read More about The chosen few: the low-mass haloes that host faint galaxies.