Professor Carlos Frenk's Outputs (31)

Simulated Milky Way analogues: implications for dark matter indirect searches (2015)
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Calore, F., Bozorgnia, N., Lovell, M., Bertone, G., Schaller, M., Frenk, C., …Trayford, J. (2015). Simulated Milky Way analogues: implications for dark matter indirect searches. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2015(12), Article 053. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2015/12/053

We study high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations of Milky Way type galaxies obtained within the "Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments" (EAGLE) project, and identify those that best satisfy observational constraints on the Milky... Read More about Simulated Milky Way analogues: implications for dark matter indirect searches.

The orbital PDF: the dynamical state of Milky Way sized haloes and the intrinsic uncertainty in the determination of their masses (2015)
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Han, J., Wang, W., Cole, S., & Frenk, C. S. (2016). The orbital PDF: the dynamical state of Milky Way sized haloes and the intrinsic uncertainty in the determination of their masses. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456(1), 1017-1029. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2522

Using realistic cosmological simulations of Milky Way sized haloes, we study their dynamical state and the accuracy of inferring their mass profiles with steady-state models of dynamical tracers. We use a new method that describes the phase-space dis... Read More about The orbital PDF: the dynamical state of Milky Way sized haloes and the intrinsic uncertainty in the determination of their masses.

The orbital PDF: general inference of the gravitational potential from steady-state tracers (2015)
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Han, J., Wang, W., Cole, S., & Frenk, C. S. (2016). The orbital PDF: general inference of the gravitational potential from steady-state tracers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456(1), 1003-1016. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2707

We develop two general methods to infer the gravitational potential of a system using steady-state tracers, i.e. tracers with a time-independent phase-space distribution. Combined with the phase-space continuity equation, the time independence implie... Read More about The orbital PDF: general inference of the gravitational potential from steady-state tracers.

Formation of in situ stellar haloes in Milky Way-mass galaxies (2015)
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Cooper, A. P., Parry, O. H., Lowing, B., Cole, S., & Frenk, C. (2015). Formation of in situ stellar haloes in Milky Way-mass galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454(3), 3185-3199. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2057

We study the formation of stellar haloes in three Milky Way-mass galaxies using cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations, focusing on the subset of halo stars that form in situ, as opposed to those accreted from satellites. In situ st... Read More about Formation of in situ stellar haloes in Milky Way-mass galaxies.

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.

Dark matter annihilation radiation in hydrodynamic simulations of Milky Way haloes (2015)
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Schaller, M., Frenk, C. S., Theuns, T., Calore, F., Bertone, G., Bozorgnia, N., …Schaye, J. (2016). Dark matter annihilation radiation in hydrodynamic simulations of Milky Way haloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(4), 4442-4451. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2667

We obtain predictions for the properties of cold dark matter annihilation radiation using high-resolution hydrodynamic zoom-in cosmological simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies (APOSTLE project) carried out as part of the ‘Evolution and Assembly of... Read More about Dark matter annihilation radiation in hydrodynamic simulations of Milky Way haloes.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Panchromatic Data Release (far-UV-far-IR) and the low-z energy budget (2015)
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Driver, S. P., Wright, A. H., Andrews, S. K., Davies, L. J., Kafle, P. R., Lange, R., …Williams, R. (2016). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Panchromatic Data Release (far-UV-far-IR) and the low-z energy budget. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(4), 3911-3942. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2505

We present the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) Panchromatic Data Release (PDR) constituting over 230 deg2 of imaging with photometry in 21 bands extending from the far-UV to the far-IR. These data complement our spectroscopic campaign of over 300k ga... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Panchromatic Data Release (far-UV-far-IR) and the low-z energy budget.

Erratum: Estimating the dark matter halo mass of our Milky Way using dynamical tracers (2015)
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Wang, W., Han, J., Cooper, A., Cole, S., Frenk, C., & Lowing, B. (2016). Erratum: Estimating the dark matter halo mass of our Milky Way using dynamical tracers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2535

Our paper ‘Estimating the dark matter halo mass of our Milky Way using dynamical tracers’ published in MNRAS, 2015, 453, 377 contained typographic errors in equations (12) and (6) as detailed below. Our code used the correct expressions in both cases... Read More about Erratum: Estimating the dark matter halo mass of our Milky Way using dynamical tracers.

The Copernicus Complexio: Statistical Properties of Warm Dark Matter Haloes (2015)
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Bose, S., Hellwing, W., Frenk, C., Jenkins, A., Lovell, M., Helly, J., & Li, B. (2016). The Copernicus Complexio: Statistical Properties of Warm Dark Matter Haloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(1), 318-333. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2294

The recent detection of a 3.5 keV X-ray line from the centres of galaxies and clusters by Bulbul et al. and Boyarsky et al. has been interpreted as emission from the decay of 7 keV sterile neutrinos which could make up the (warm) dark matter (WDM). A... Read More about The Copernicus Complexio: Statistical Properties of Warm Dark Matter Haloes.

The alignment and shape of dark matter, stellar, and hot gas distributions in the EAGLE and cosmo-OWLS simulations (2015)
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Velliscig, M., Cacciato, M., Schaye, J., Crain, R., Bower, R., van Daalen, M., …Theuns, T. (2015). The alignment and shape of dark matter, stellar, and hot gas distributions in the EAGLE and cosmo-OWLS simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453(1), 721-738. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1690

We report the alignment and shape of dark matter, stellar, and hot gas distributions in the EAGLE (Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments) and cosmo-OWLS (OverWhelmingly Large Simulations) simulations. The combination of these stat... Read More about The alignment and shape of dark matter, stellar, and hot gas distributions in the EAGLE and cosmo-OWLS simulations.

Planes of satellite galaxies: when exceptions are the rule (2015)
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Cautun, M., Bose, S., Frenk, C. S., Guo, Q., Han, J., Hellwing, W. A., Sawala, T., & Wang, W. (2015). Planes of satellite galaxies: when exceptions are the rule. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452(4), 3838-3852. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1557

The detection of planar structures within the satellite systems of both the Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda (M31) has been reported as being in stark contradiction to the predictions of the standard cosmological model (Λ cold dark matter – ΛCDM). Given... Read More about Planes of satellite galaxies: when exceptions are the rule.

The unexpected diversity of dwarf galaxy rotation curves (2015)
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Oman, K., Navarro, J., Fattahi, A., Frenk, C., Sawala, T., White, S., …Theuns, T. (2015). The unexpected diversity of dwarf galaxy rotation curves. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452(4), 3650-3665. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1504

We examine the circular velocity profiles of galaxies in Λ cold dark matter (CDM) cosmological hydrodynamical simulations from the EAGLE and LOCAL GROUPS projects and compare them with a compilation of observed rotation curves of galaxies spanning a... Read More about The unexpected diversity of dwarf galaxy rotation curves.

Molecular hydrogen abundances of galaxies in the EAGLE simulations (2015)
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Lagos, C. D. P., Crain, R., Schaye, J., Furlong, M., Frenk, C., Bower, R., …Dalla Vecchia, C. (2015). Molecular hydrogen abundances of galaxies in the EAGLE simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452(4), 3815-3837. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1488

We investigate the abundance of galactic molecular hydrogen (H2) in the ‘Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments’ (EAGLE) cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. We assign H2 masses to gas particles in the simulations in post-process... Read More about Molecular hydrogen abundances of galaxies in the EAGLE simulations.

The Subaru FMOS galaxy redshift survey (FastSound). I. Overview of the survey targeting Hα emitters at z ˜ 1.4 (2015)
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Tonegawa, M., Totani, T., Okada, H., Akiyama, M., Dalton, G., Glazebrook, K., …Szapudi, I. (2015). The Subaru FMOS galaxy redshift survey (FastSound). I. Overview of the survey targeting Hα emitters at z ˜ 1.4. Publications of Astronomical Society of Japan, 67(5), Article 81. https://doi.org/10.1093/pasj/psv044

FastSound is a galaxy redshift survey that uses the near-infrared Fiber Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS) mounted on the Subaru Telescope, targeting Hα emitters at z ∼ 1.18–1.54 down to the sensitivity limit of Hα flux ∼ 2 × 10−16 erg cm−2 s−1. The pr... Read More about The Subaru FMOS galaxy redshift survey (FastSound). I. Overview of the survey targeting Hα emitters at z ˜ 1.4.

The impact of angular momentum on black hole accretion rates in simulations of galaxy formation (2015)
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Rosas-Guevara, Y., Bower, R., Schaye, J., Furlong, M., Frenk, C., Booth, C., …Theuns, T. (2015). The impact of angular momentum on black hole accretion rates in simulations of galaxy formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454(1), 1038-1057. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2056

Feedback from energy liberated by gas accretion on to black holes (BHs) is an attractive mechanism to explain the exponential cut-off at the massive end of the galaxy stellar mass function. Most previous implementations of BH accretion in hydrodynami... Read More about The impact of angular momentum on black hole accretion rates in simulations of galaxy formation.

The Milky Way system in Λ cold dark matter cosmological simulations (2015)
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Guo, Q., Cooper, A., Frenk, C., Helly, J., & Hellwing, W. (2015). The Milky Way system in Λ cold dark matter cosmological simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454(1), 550-559. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1938

We apply a semi-analytic galaxy formation model to two high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations to investigate analogues of the Milky Way system. We select these according to observed properties of the Milky Way rather than by halo mass as in... Read More about The Milky Way system in Λ cold dark matter cosmological simulations.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): end of survey report and data release 2 (2015)
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Liske, J., Baldry, I., Driver, S., Tuffs, R., Alpaslan, M., Andrae, E., …Wright, A. (2015). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): end of survey report and data release 2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452(2), 2087-2126. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1436

The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey is one of the largest contemporary spectroscopic surveys of low redshift galaxies. Covering an area of ∼286 deg2 (split among five survey regions) down to a limiting magnitude of r < 19.8 mag, we have collec... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): end of survey report and data release 2.

The effect of baryons on the inner density profiles of rich clusters (2015)
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Schaller, M., Frenk, C. S., Bower, R. G., Theuns, T., Trayford, J. W., Crain, R. A., …McCarthy, I. G. (2015). The effect of baryons on the inner density profiles of rich clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452(1), 343-355. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1341

We use the ‘Evolution and assembly of galaxies and their environments’ (EAGLE) cosmological simulation to investigate the effect of baryons on the density profiles of rich galaxy clusters. We focus on EAGLE clusters with M200 > 1014 M⊙ of which we ha... Read More about The effect of baryons on the inner density profiles of rich clusters.

Estimating the dark matter halo mass of our Milky Way using dynamical tracers (2015)
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Wang, W., Han, J., Cooper, A. P., Cole, S., Frenk, C., & Lowing, B. (2015). Estimating the dark matter halo mass of our Milky Way using dynamical tracers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453(1), 377-400. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1647

The mass of the dark matter halo of the Milky Way can be estimated by fitting analytical models to the phase-space distribution of dynamical tracers. We test this approach using realistic mock stellar haloes constructed from the Aquarius N-body simul... Read More about Estimating the dark matter halo mass of our Milky Way using dynamical tracers.

Surface photometry of brightest cluster galaxies and intracluster stars in ΛCDM (2015)
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Cooper, A., Gao, L., Guo, Q., Frenk, C., Jenkins, A., Springel, V., & White, S. (2015). Surface photometry of brightest cluster galaxies and intracluster stars in ΛCDM. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 451(3), 2703-2722. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1042

We simulate the phase-space distribution of stellar mass in nine massive Λ cold dark matter galaxy clusters by applying the semi-analytic particle tagging method of Cooper et al. to the Phoenix suite of high-resolution N-body simulations (M200 ≈ 7.5–... Read More about Surface photometry of brightest cluster galaxies and intracluster stars in ΛCDM.