Speaker
Mr
Peter Camps
(Ghent University)
Description
Do the simulated EAGLE galaxies look like observed galaxies?
The EAGLE project is a campaign of large-scale cosmological simulations aimed at examining the formation of galaxies (Schaye et al. 2014). One major improvement is the treatment of feedback from massive stars and accreting black holes, which allows winds to develop naturally without predetermined speed or mass loading factors. EAGLE reproduces many observations with an accuracy that is unprecedented for hydrodynamical simulations.
In the present work, we perform 3D dust radiative transfer simulations on a sizable set of EAGLE galaxies, with the goal of calculating their observable properties (images and SEDs) from UV to submm wavelengths. We select redshift-zero galaxies in the same stellar mass regime as the Herschel Reference Survey (HRS), a volume-limited sample of “normal” galaxies in the Local Universe. We compare the dust-related properties (e.g. dust mass, gas-to-dust ratio, dust-to-stellar-mass ratio) of the simulated galaxies to the HRS galaxies, and investigate their dust scaling
relations.
Primary author
Mr
Peter Camps
(Ghent University)
Co-authors
Mr
James Trayford
(ICC, Durham University)
Mr
Maarten Baes
(Ghent University)
Mr
Tom Theuns
(ICC, Durham University)
