Properties of galaxies reproduced by a hydrodynamic simulation

Nature

Volumn 509, Issue 7499, 2014, Pages 177-182

  Vogelsberger, M ^a   Genel, S ^b   Springel, V ^c,d   Torrey, P ^a   Sijacki, D ^b   Xu, D ^e   Snyder, G ^f   Bird, S ^g   Nelson, D ^b   Hernquist, L ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c HEIDELBERG INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL STUDIES   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f STScI   (United States)

^g INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; METAL;

COSMIC RAY; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROGEN; METAL; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BARYON; COSMOS; GAS EVOLUTION; GRAVITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TIME;

EID: 84899952533     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13316     Document Type: Article

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