[PDF] Top 20 Croton, Darren (2005): Galaxy Formation and Evolution: The Local Galaxy Population as a Cosmological Probe. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Physik

... the local galaxy population by devel- oping a self consistent model of galaxy formation, which we coupled to the Millennium Run ΛCDM N-body ...as galaxy luminosities ... See full document

... follow galaxy formation directly within the evolv- ing dark matter ...structure formation (Kauffmann et ...structure formation framework provided by a dark matter ...the formation, ... See full document

... the evolution and composition of the ...spectrum. Cosmological information is extracted from the broad band shape of those functions as well as the ...Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) by Cole et ... See full document

... shape galaxy evolution can be studied in great ...of galaxy clus- ters at high redshift (z > 0.8) to trace the evolution of the cluster population and its matter components back to ... See full document

... of galaxy formation and evolution in the ...D. Croton, ...matter evolution in a cosmological volume carried out at the MPA in 2005 by Springel et ...hosting galaxy ... See full document

... star formation, the evolution of the interstellar medium and so ...(Springel, 2005), which may feature improvements to deal with mixing of fluids (see ... See full document

... the formation and evolution of dwarf galaxies in fully cosmological, smoothed particle hydrodynamical (SPH) ...a cosmological volume with periodic boundary conditions, in which the haloes grow ... See full document

... structure formation model, small objects form first from small overdensities of the density field, and then grow by accretion and mergers, in a “hierarchical” or “bottom-up” fashion (White & Rees 1978; White ... See full document

... of local stars, which gives rise to a spread in [Fe/H] by virtue of the metallicity gradient within the ISM (which is larger in the SB09 model than in traditional models of chemical ...the evolution of all ... See full document

... tered population in finite volumes are subject to uncertainties which exceed the Poisson noise, arising from the underlying large-scale density ...the local Universe (Kauffmann et ... See full document

... the population mix of green galaxies shows a slight dependence on environment: the fraction of galaxies with a post-starburst signature (PC2>0) and emission lines is smaller in the cluster, whereas the fraction ... See full document

... the evolution of perturbations arising from causal ...al., 2005; Percival et ...constrain cosmological parameters (e.g. Glazebrook and Blake, 2005; Wagner et ... See full document

... 36 ′ sky patch and statistically subtracted. For each X-ray cluster candidate the whole redshift range from z = 0 to z = 1.05 is scanned through using simultaneously two colors that bracket the 4000 Å break at the given ... See full document

... select galaxy groups is described; Section ...in- formation provided by these catalogs is subsequently used to create the shear mock catalogs, as explained in Chapter ... See full document

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... current cosmological simulations of Springel et ...the Galaxy, that it why is exposed to interactions with the neighbors of the Local ...the Galaxy and also some of the oldest ... See full document

... Finally, local heat fluxes at the scale of turbulent eddies are affected by the correlation between temperature gradients and the magnetic field as they evolve in the same turbulent velocity field (Komarov et ... See full document

... We start with a brief introduction to cosmology and general relativity as well as motivation for the thesis. This is followed by a short description of the program de- veloped during the thesis to analyse strong lensing ... See full document

... Allen et al. (2006) found recently a tight correlation between the estimates of the Bondi accretion rate on to the central black hole and the jet power (estimated from the observed expanding bubbles) in X-ray luminous ... See full document

... the formation and growth of cosmic structures is one of the most fascinat- ing and challenging fields of ...favoured cosmological model, the so-called ΛCDM cosmogony, dark matter structures grow ... See full document