Modification of a cosmological hydrodynamic code for more realistic baryonic physics

  • Chun, Kyungwon (School of Space Research, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Shin, Jihye (Kalvi Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University) ;
  • Kim, Sungsoo S. (School of Space Research, Kyung Hee University)
  • Published : 2014.10.13

Abstract

structure of matters of Lambda cold dark matter (CDM) cosmology on detailed numerical simulations. To accomplish our research goal, we have added the following baryonic physics on the existing cosmological hydrodynamic code, Gadget-2: 1) radiative heating and cooling, 2) reionization of the Universe and UV shielding, 3) star formation, 4) energy and metallicity feedback by supernova. In addition, we included cluster formation to distinguish clustered star formation inside the very high density gas clumps from the field star formation. Our simulations cover a cubic box of a side length 4Mpc/h with 130 million particles. The mass of each particles is $3.4{\times}104Msun$, thus the GCs can be resolved with more than hundreds particles. We discuss various properties of the GCs such as mass function, specific frequency, baryon-to-dark matter ratio, metallicity, spatial distribution, and orbit eccentricity distribution as functions of redshift. We also discuss how the formation and evolution of the GCs are affected by UV shielding.

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