Snaith, Owain N (2011) The Environment Of Galaxies And Groups Of Galaxies. Doctoral thesis, University of Central Lancashire.
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In this thesis, we employ two numerical tools - semi-
analytical models and N-body plus hydrodynamical simulations of large scale structure and individual galaxies - to explore the underlying physics governing the formation and evolution of groups of galaxies, and the role of environment in generating polar structures around disk galaxies.
Using phenomenological models of baryonic physics imposed upon large-scale dissipationless simulations of the Universe, semi-analytic models (SAMs) are one of the principal methods used to model large samples of model galaxies. We sought to examine the properties of groups of galaxies with a range of densities using SAMs applied specifically to the industry-standard Millennium Run; for this work, we make use of the well-known Munich and Durham models, and their descendants.
We are especially interested in how group properties change as we change the linking length of our Friends- of-Friends group finder. We compare the group populations and richness in these models and compare them both with observations and high-resolution N- body simulations. This leads us to the conclusion that the Durham models produce a much larger population of compact objects than the Munich models. We also explore the group dynamics and morphology as a function of density.
We compare the luminosity distributions of galaxy groups using publicly available SAMs in order to explore
|Item Type:||Thesis (Doctoral)|
|Additional Information:||Parts of this thesis are presented on http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2447 and is available at: Snaith, O. N., Gibson, B. K., Brook, C. B., Courty, S., Sánchez-Blázquez, P., Kawata, D., Knebe, A. and Sales, L. V. (2011), A comparison of galaxy group luminosity functions from semi-analytic models. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 414: no. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18907.x|
|Uncontrolled Keywords (separate with ;):||Semi-analytic models; galaxy luminosity function; polar disc galaxies; polar ring galaxies; hydrodynamical simulations; groups of galaxies; galaxy formation; galaxy environments|
|Subjects:||Q Science > QB Astronomy|
Q Science > QC Physics
|Schools:||College of Science and Technology > School of Physical Sciences and Computing|
|Deposited By:||Khalil Ahmed Patel|
|Deposited On:||30 Nov 2011 17:51|
|Last Modified:||11 Feb 2014 14:46|
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