期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 398, 期 3, 页码 1150-1164出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15191.x
关键词
methods: N-body simulations; galaxies: haloes; cosmology: theory
资金
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [05 AC6VHA]
- STFC [ST/F002300/1, ST/H008519/1, ST/F002289/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/F002300/1, ST/F002289/1, ST/H008519/1] Funding Source: researchfish
We present the Millennium-II Simulation (MS-II), a very large N-body simulation of dark matter evolution in the concordance Lambda cold dark matter (Lambda CDM) cosmology. The MS-II assumes the same cosmological parameters and uses the same particle number and output data structure as the original Millennium Simulation (MS), but was carried out in a periodic cube one-fifth the size (100 h(-1) Mpc) with five times better spatial resolution (a Plummer equivalent softening of 1.0 h(-1) kpc) and with 125 times better mass resolution (a particle mass of 6.9 x 10(6) h(-1) M-circle dot). By comparing results at MS and MS-II resolution, we demonstrate excellent convergence in dark matter statistics such as the halo mass function, the subhalo abundance distribution, the mass dependence of halo formation times, the linear and non-linear autocorrelations and power spectra, and halo assembly bias. Together, the two simulations provide precise results for such statistics over an unprecedented range of scales, from haloes similar to those hosting Local Group dwarf spheroidal galaxies to haloes corresponding to the richest galaxy clusters. The 'Milky Way' haloes of the Aquarius Project were selected from a lower resolution version of the MS-II and were then resimulated at much higher resolution. As a result, they are present in the MS-II along with thousands of other similar mass haloes. A comparison of their assembly histories in the MS-II and in resimulations of 1000 times better resolution shows detailed agreement over a factor of 100 in mass growth. We publicly release halo catalogues and assembly trees for the MS-II in the same format within the same archive as those already released for the MS.
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