Résumé / Abstract Seminaire_IAP
« Next-generation cosmological simulations: galaxy assembly and evolution »

Lars Hernquist
Harvard-Smithsonian Center Astroph. (CfA) (Cambridge, Massachusetts, Etats-Unis)

A predictive theory of galaxy formation remains elusive, even after more than 50 years of dedicated effort by many renowned astrophysicists. The problem of galaxy formation is made difficult by the large range in scales involved and the many non-linear physical processes at play. This talk describes a new generation of numerical models that are designed to overcome these difficulties based on novel schemes for solving the fluid equations on a moving mesh. Initial results from this study provide insight into many aspects of galaxy assembly and the relationship between galaxies and cosmologically-distributed baryons.
vendredi 23 septembre 2016 - 11:00
Salle des séminaires Évry Schatzman, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
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