Professor Carlos Frenk's Outputs (558)

A chronicle of galaxy mass assembly in the EAGLE simulation (2016)
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Qu, Y., Helly, J., Bower, R., Theuns, T., Crain, R., Frenk, C., …White, S. (2017). A chronicle of galaxy mass assembly in the EAGLE simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(2), 1659-1675. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2437

We analyse the mass assembly of central galaxies in the Evolution and Assembly of Galaxies and their Environments (EAGLE) hydrodynamical simulations. We build merger trees to connect galaxies to their progenitors at different redshifts and characteri... Read More about A chronicle of galaxy mass assembly in the EAGLE simulation.

Reionisation in sterile neutrino cosmologies (2016)
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Bose, S., Frenk, C., Hou, J., Lacey, C., & Lovell, M. (2016). Reionisation in sterile neutrino cosmologies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 463(4), 3848-3859. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2288

We investigate the process of reionisation in a model in which the dark matter is a warm elementary particle such as a sterile neutrino. We focus on models that are consistent with the dark matter decay interpretation of the recently detected line at... Read More about Reionisation in sterile neutrino cosmologies.

Constraining SN feedback: a tug of war between reionization and the Milky Way satellites (2016)
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Hou, J., Frenk, C., Lacey, C., & Bose, S. (2016). Constraining SN feedback: a tug of war between reionization and the Milky Way satellites. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 463(2), 1224-1239. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2033

Theoretical models of galaxy formation based on the cold dark matter cosmogony typically require strong feedback from supernova (SN) explosions in order to reproduce the Milky Way satellite galaxy luminosity function and the faint end of the field ga... Read More about Constraining SN feedback: a tug of war between reionization and the Milky Way satellites.

Supermassive black holes in the EAGLE Universe. Revealing the observables of their growth (2016)
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Rosas-Guevara, Y., Bower, R., Schaye, J., McAlpine, S., Dalla Vecchia, C., Frenk, C., …Theuns, T. (2016). Supermassive black holes in the EAGLE Universe. Revealing the observables of their growth. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 462(1), 190-205. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1679

We investigate the evolution of supermassive black holes in the ‘Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments’ (EAGLE) cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. The largest of the EAGLE volumes covers a (100 cMpc)3 and includes state-of-the... Read More about Supermassive black holes in the EAGLE Universe. Revealing the observables of their growth.

Galaxies in the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation and in the Durham and Munich semi-analytical models (2016)
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Guo, Q., Gonzalez-Perez, V., Guo, Q., Schaller, M., Furlong, M., Bower, R., …Theuns, T. (2016). Galaxies in the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation and in the Durham and Munich semi-analytical models. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 461(4), 3457-3482. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1525

We compare global predictions from the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation, and two semi-analytic (SA) models of galaxy formation, L-GALAXIES and GALFORM. All three models include the key physical processes for the formation and evolution of galaxies and... Read More about Galaxies in the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation and in the Durham and Munich semi-analytical models.

Spin flips - II. Evolution of dark matter halo spin orientation, and its correlation with major mergers (2016)
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Bett, P., & Frenk, C. (2016). Spin flips - II. Evolution of dark matter halo spin orientation, and its correlation with major mergers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 461(2), 1338-1355. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1395

We expand our previous study on the relationship between changes in the orientation of the angular momentum vector of dark matter haloes (‘spin flips’) and changes in their mass, to cover the full range of halo masses in a simulation cube of length 1... Read More about Spin flips - II. Evolution of dark matter halo spin orientation, and its correlation with major mergers.

Satellite galaxies in semi-analytic models of galaxy formation with sterile neutrino dark matter (2016)
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Lovell, M., Bose, S., Boyarsky, A., Cole, S., Frenk, C., Gonzalez-Perez, V., …Smith, A. (2016). Satellite galaxies in semi-analytic models of galaxy formation with sterile neutrino dark matter. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 461(1), 60-72. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1317

The sterile neutrino is a viable dark matter candidate that can be produced in the early Universe via non-equilibrium processes, and would therefore possess a highly non-thermal spectrum of primordial velocities. In this paper we analyse the process... Read More about Satellite galaxies in semi-analytic models of galaxy formation with sterile neutrino dark matter.

The link between the assembly of the inner dark matter halo and the angular momentum evolution of galaxies in the EAGLE simulation (2016)
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Zavala, J., Frenk, C., Bower, R., Schaye, J., Theuns, T., Crain, R., …Furlong, M. (2016). The link between the assembly of the inner dark matter halo and the angular momentum evolution of galaxies in the EAGLE simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(4), 4466-4482. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1286

We explore the co-evolution of the specific angular momentum of dark matter haloes and the cold baryons that comprise the galaxies within. We study over 2000 galaxies within the reference cosmological hydrodynamical simulation of the ‘Evolution and A... Read More about The link between the assembly of the inner dark matter halo and the angular momentum evolution of galaxies in the EAGLE simulation.

Missing dark matter in dwarf galaxies? (2016)
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Oman, K., Navarro, J., Sales, L., Fattahi, A., Frenk, C., Sawala, T., …White, S. (2016). Missing dark matter in dwarf galaxies?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(4), 3610-3623. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1251

We use cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of the APOSTLE project along with high-quality rotation curve observations to examine the fraction of baryons in ΛCDM haloes that collect into galaxies. This ‘galaxy formation efficiency’ correlates stro... Read More about Missing dark matter in dwarf galaxies?.

Alignments between galaxies, satellite systems and haloes (2016)
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Shao, S., Cautun, M., Frenk, C., Gao, L., Crain, R., Schaller, M., …Theuns, T. (2016). Alignments between galaxies, satellite systems and haloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(4), 3772-3782. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1247

The spatial distribution of the satellite populations of the Milky Way and Andromeda are puzzling in that they are nearly perpendicular to the discs of their central galaxies. To understand the origin of such configurations we study the alignment of... Read More about Alignments between galaxies, satellite systems and haloes.

The low abundance and insignificance of dark discs in simulated Milky Way galaxies (2016)
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Schaller, M., Frenk, C. S., Fattahi, A., Navarro, J. F., Oman, K. A., & Sawala, T. (2016). The low abundance and insignificance of dark discs in simulated Milky Way galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 461(1), L56-L61. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slw101

We investigate the presence and importance of dark matter discs in a sample of 24 simulated Milky Way galaxies in the apostle project, part of the eagle programme of hydrodynamic simulations in ΛCDM cosmology. It has been suggested that a dark disc i... Read More about The low abundance and insignificance of dark discs in simulated Milky Way galaxies.

Simulated Milky Way analogues: implications for dark matter direct searches (2016)
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Bozorgnia, N., Calore, F., Schaller, M., Lovell, M., Bertone, G., Frenk, C., …Theuns, T. (2016). Simulated Milky Way analogues: implications for dark matter direct searches. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2016(5), Article 024. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/05/024

We study the implications of galaxy formation on dark matter direct detection using high resolution hydrodynamic simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies simulated within the EAGLE and APOSTLE projects. We identify Milky Way analogues that satisfy obse... Read More about Simulated Milky Way analogues: implications for dark matter direct searches.

The mass–concentration–redshift relation of cold and warm dark matter haloes (2016)
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Ludlow, A., Bose, S., Angulo, R., Wang, L., Hellwing, W., Navarro, J., …Frenk, C. (2016). The mass–concentration–redshift relation of cold and warm dark matter haloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(2), 1214-1232. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1046

We use a suite of cosmological simulations to study the mass–concentration–redshift relation, c(M, z), of dark matter haloes. Our simulations include standard Λ-cold dark matter (CDM) models, and additional runs with truncated power spectra, consiste... Read More about The mass–concentration–redshift relation of cold and warm dark matter haloes.

The effect of baryons on redshift space distortions and cosmic density and velocity fields in the EAGLE simulation (2016)
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Hellwing, W., Schaller, M., Frenk, C., Theuns, T., Schaye, J., Bower, R., & Crain, R. (2016). The effect of baryons on redshift space distortions and cosmic density and velocity fields in the EAGLE simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 461(1), L11-L15. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slw081

We use the Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments (EAGLE) galaxy formation simulation to study the effects of baryons on the power spectrum of the total matter and dark matter distributions and on the velocity fields of dark matter... Read More about The effect of baryons on redshift space distortions and cosmic density and velocity fields in the EAGLE simulation.

Constraints on the identity of the dark matter from strong gravitational lenses (2016)
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Li, R., Frenk, C., Cole, S., Gao, L., Bose, S., & Hellwing, W. (2016). Constraints on the identity of the dark matter from strong gravitational lenses. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(1), 363-372. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw939

The cold dark matter (CDM) cosmological model unambiguously predicts that a large number of haloes should survive as subhaloes when they are accreted into a larger halo. The CDM model would be ruled out if such substructures were shown not to exist.... Read More about Constraints on the identity of the dark matter from strong gravitational lenses.

On the stellar halo metallicity profile of Milky Way-like galaxies in the Auriga simulations (2016)
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Monachesi, A., Gómez, F., Grand, R., Kauffmann, G., Marinacci, F., Pakmor, R., …Frenk, C. (2016). On the stellar halo metallicity profile of Milky Way-like galaxies in the Auriga simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 459(1), L46-L50. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slw052

A recent observational study of haloes of nearby Milky Way-like galaxies shows that only half (four out of eight) of the current sample exhibits strong negative metallicity ([Fe/H]) gradients. This is at odds with predictions from hydrodynamical simu... Read More about On the stellar halo metallicity profile of Milky Way-like galaxies in the Auriga 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.

The brighter galaxies reionised the Universe (2016)
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Sharma, M., Theuns, T., Frenk, C., Bower, R., Crain, R., Schaller, M., & Schaye, J. (2016). The brighter galaxies reionised the Universe. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 458(1), L94-L98. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slw021

Hydrogen in the Universe was (re)ionized between redshifts z ≈ 10 and z ≈ 6. The nature of the sources of the ionizing radiation is hotly debated, with faint galaxies below current detection limits regarded as prime candidates. Here, we consider a sc... Read More about The brighter galaxies reionised the Universe.

The view from the boundary: a new void stacking method (2016)
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Cautun, M., Cai, Y., & Frenk, C. (2016). The view from the boundary: a new void stacking method. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 457(3), 2540-2553. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw154

We introduce a new method for stacking voids and deriving their profile that greatly increases the potential of voids as a tool for precision cosmology. Given that voids are distinctly non-spherical and have most of their mass at their edge, voids ar... Read More about The view from the boundary: a new void stacking method.

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.