Professor Carlos Frenk's Outputs (10)

The abundance of (not just) dark matter haloes (2013)
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Sawala, T., Frenk, C., Crain, R., Jenkins, A., Schaye, J., Theuns, T., & Zavala, J. (2013). The abundance of (not just) dark matter haloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 431(2), 1366-1382. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt259

We study the effect of baryons on the abundance of structures and substructures in a Λ cold dark matter (CDM) cosmology, using a pair of high-resolution cosmological simulations from the Galaxies-Intergalactic Medium Interaction Calculation project.... Read More about The abundance of (not just) dark matter haloes.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): spectroscopic analysis (2013)
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Hopkins, A., Driver, S., Brough, S., Owers, M., Bauer, A., Gunawardhana, M., …Wilkins, S. (2013). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): spectroscopic analysis. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 430(3), 2047-2066. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt030

The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey is a multiwavelength photometric and spectroscopic survey, using the AAOmega spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope to obtain spectra for up to ∼300 000 galaxies over 280 deg2, to a limiting magnitud... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): spectroscopic analysis.

The phase-space density of fermionic dark matter haloes (2013)
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Shao, S., Gao, L., Theuns, T., & Frenk, C. (2013). The phase-space density of fermionic dark matter haloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 430(3), 2346-2357. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt053

We have performed a series of numerical experiments to investigate how the primordial thermal velocities of fermionic dark matter particles affect the physical and phase-space density profiles of the dark matter haloes into which they collect. The in... Read More about The phase-space density of fermionic dark matter haloes.

Characterization of dark-matter-induced anisotropies in the diffuse gamma-ray background (2013)
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Fornasa, M., Zavala, J., Sánchez-Conde, M., Siegal-Gaskins, J., Delahaye, T., Prada, F., …Frenk, C. (2013). Characterization of dark-matter-induced anisotropies in the diffuse gamma-ray background. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 429(2), 1529-1553. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts444

The Fermi-LAT collaboration has recently reported the detection of angular power above the photon noise level in the diffuse gamma-ray background between 1 and 50 GeV. Such signal can be used to constrain a possible contribution from dark matter (DM)... Read More about Characterization of dark-matter-induced anisotropies in the diffuse gamma-ray background.

The spatial distribution of galactic satellites in the Λ cold dark matter cosmology (2013)
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Wang, J., Frenk, C., & Cooper, A. (2013). The spatial distribution of galactic satellites in the Λ cold dark matter cosmology. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 429(2), 1502-1513. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts442

We investigate the spatial distribution of galactic satellites in high-resolution simulations of structure formation in the Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) model: the Aquarius dark matter simulations of individual haloes and the Millennium-II simulation of... Read More about The spatial distribution of galactic satellites in the Λ cold dark matter cosmology.

On the role of feedback in shaping the cosmic abundance and clustering of neutral atomic hydrogen in galaxies (2013)
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Kim, H., Power, C., Baugh, C., Wyithe, J., Lacey, C., Lagos, C., & Frenk, C. (2013). On the role of feedback in shaping the cosmic abundance and clustering of neutral atomic hydrogen in galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 428(4), 3366-3374. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts279

We investigate the impact of feedback – from supernovae (SNe), active galactic nuclei (AGN) and a photoionizing background at high redshifts – on the neutral atomic hydrogen (H I) mass function, the bJ-band luminosity function, and the spatial cluste... Read More about On the role of feedback in shaping the cosmic abundance and clustering of neutral atomic hydrogen in galaxies.

Lightcone mock catalogues from semi-analytic models of galaxy formation - I. Construction and application to the BzK colour selection (2013)
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Merson, A., Baugh, C., Helly, J., Gonzalez-Perez, V., Cole, S., Bielby, R., …Lagos, C. D. P. (2013). Lightcone mock catalogues from semi-analytic models of galaxy formation - I. Construction and application to the BzK colour selection. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 429(1), 556-578. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts355

We introduce a method for constructing end-to-end mock galaxy catalogues using a semi-analytical model of galaxy formation, applied to the halo merger trees extracted from a cosmological N-body simulation. The mocks that we construct are lightcone ca... Read More about Lightcone mock catalogues from semi-analytic models of galaxy formation - I. Construction and application to the BzK colour selection.

The satellites of the Milky Way – insights from semi-analytic modelling in a ΛCDM cosmology (2013)
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Starkenburg, E., Helmi, A., De Lucia, G., Li, Y., Navarro, J., Font, A., …White, S. (2013). The satellites of the Milky Way – insights from semi-analytic modelling in a ΛCDM cosmology. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 429(1), 725-743. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts367

We combine the six high-resolution Aquarius dark matter simulations with a semi-analytic galaxy formation model to investigate the properties of the satellites of Milky Way-like galaxies. We find good correspondence with the observed luminosity funct... Read More about The satellites of the Milky Way – insights from semi-analytic modelling in a ΛCDM cosmology.

The ultraviolet colours and dust attenuation of Lyman-break galaxies (2013)
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Gonzalez-Perez, V., Lacey, C., Baugh, C., Frenk, C., & Wilkins, S. (2013). The ultraviolet colours and dust attenuation of Lyman-break galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 429(2), 1609-1625. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts446

Using GALFORM, a semi-analytical model of galaxy formation in the Λ cold dark matter cosmology, we study the rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) colours of Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) in the redshift range 2.5 ≤ z ≤ 10. As the impact of dust on UV luminosity... Read More about The ultraviolet colours and dust attenuation of Lyman-break galaxies.

Dark matter halo merger histories beyond cold dark matter - I. Methods and application to warm dark matter (2013)
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Benson, A., Farahi, A., Cole, S., Moustakas, L., Jenkins, A., Lovell, M., …Frenk, C. (2013). Dark matter halo merger histories beyond cold dark matter - I. Methods and application to warm dark matter. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 428(2), 1774-1789. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts159

We describe a methodology to accurately compute halo mass functions, progenitor mass functions, merger rates and merger trees in non-cold dark matter universes using a self-consistent treatment of the generalized extended Press–Schechter formalism. O... Read More about Dark matter halo merger histories beyond cold dark matter - I. Methods and application to warm dark matter.