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The Magneticum simulations are aiming to follow the formation of cosmological structures over a large range of cosmological scales by performing a set of hydrodynamical simulations of different cosmological volumes, each of them sampled with a very large number of particles providing excellent spacial resolution of the different simulations. We take many physical processes into account to allow detailed comparisons to a variety of multi-wavelength observational data. See Simulations for a detailed description for astrophysicists. Media shows images and movies while FAQ explains how to access data products which are also directly available via the Cosmological Web Portal.

News

  • 22.02.2024:
    Article on Velocity recostruction submitted

  • 06.02.2024:
    Article on Streams and Shells accepted

  • 02.02.2024:
    Article on baryon inpact on shear analyses submitted

  • 31.01.2024:
    Article on Entropy in Groups submitted

  • 19.12.2023:
    Article on Voids submitted

  • 01.12.2023:
    Article on ICL/BCG fractions accepted

  • 25.10.2023:
    Article on Halo Mass Function submitted

  • 28.09.2023:
    Article on Reuvinating Quench Galaxies submitted

  • 24.09.2023:
    Article on Quench Galaxies at High Redshift submitted

  • 24.09.2023:
    Article on Gas Pressure as a Probe of Cosmology published

  • 15.09.2023:
    Article on shear statistics submitted

  • 14.07.2023:
    Article on Environment dependent AGN activity submitted

  • 18.04.2023:
    Article on Cosmology with Machine Learning submitted

  • 20.02.2023:
    Article on WHIM emission submitted

  • 07.02.2023:
    Article on Decline of Star Formation submitted

  • 26.12.2022:
    Article on X-ray absorption lines submitted

  • 23.12.2022:
    Article on Groups & Clusters submitted

  • 22.12.2022:
    Article on Effects of Multiphase Gas submitted

  • 21.12.2022:
    Article on X-ray offsets accepted

  • 23.11.2022:
    Article on hydrostatic mass accepted

  • 17.10.2022:
    Article combining clusters and voids submitted

  • 05.10.2022:
    Article on Void Dynamics submitted

  • 22.09.2022:
    Article on substructures in clusters submitted

  • 01.09.2022:
    Article on internal shocks submitted

  • 17.08.2022:
    Article on shells/streams submitted

  • 09.08.2022:
    Article on XRBs submitted

  • 08.08.2022:
    Article on low X-ray surface brightness clusters

  • 01.08.2022:
    Article using machine lerning for cluster observations

  • 29.07.2022:
    Article on protocluster submitted

  • 12.07.2022:
    Article on SZ temperature submitted

  • 20.06.2022:
    Article on baryon fraction submitted

  • 09.06.2022:
    Article on RAR and MDAR submitted

  • 31.05.2022:
    Article on shapes of BCGs accepted

  • 25.04.2022:
    Article constrainig sigma8 submitted

  • 23.02.2022:
    Animations exploring LEM detecting Filaments uploaded

  • 22.01.2022:
    Article exploring z~3 galaxies submitted

  • 20.12.2021:
    Article exploring boosting of CMB measures submitted

  • 10.12.2021:
    Article exploring machine lerning submitted

  • 14.10.2021:
    Article on satellite galaxy abundance submitted

  • 06.10.2021:
    Article calibrating velocity bias submitted

  • 13.07.2021:
    Article comparing mass density slopes of early-type galaxies with observations

  • 28.06.2021:
    Article and PR on A3391/95 and nother clump system

  • 31.05.2021:
    Article on pressure-density cross correlations submitted

  • 01.04.2021:
    Article on mass bias submitted

  • 13.01.2021:
    Article on in/ex-situ stars submitted

  • 17.12.2020:
    Article on Impact of baryons on tomographic aperture mass statistics submitted

  • 16.12.2020:
    Article on gas filaments in A3391/95 accepted

  • 7.12.2020:
    Article including baryon impact on cosmic shear submitted

  • 2.12.2020:
    Article on Galaxy Lookback Evolution Model submitted

  • 30.11.2020:
    Article with MAGPI comparison submitted

  • 18.11.2020:
    Article with SAMI comparison submitted

  • 12.11.2020:
    Article on PSBs submitted

  • 28.10.2020:
    Article on dark matter fractions accepted

  • 09.10.2020:
    Article on Kinetc SZ based on Deep Neural Networks submitted

  • 03.09.2020:
    Article on baryon impact on HMF and bias submitted

  • 24.07.2020:
    Article using SZ properties submitted

  • 06.07.2020:
    Article comparing observed and simulated kSZ submitted

  • 28.05.2020:
    Article on Deap Learning using SZ submitted

  • 13.03.2020:
    Article on Deap Learning using SZ submitted

  • 05.03.2020:
    Article on conzentration and halo mass in different cosmologies submitted

  • 31.01.2020:
    Article on environment of clusters accepted

  • 09.01.2020:
    Article on stellar property statistics submitted

  • 20.12.2019:
    Second Article on stellar kinematics submitted

  • 18.11.2019:
    New eROSITA mock lightcones made available

  • 10.11.2019:
    Article on scaling relations in different cosmologies submitted

  • 07.08.2019:
    Article using machine learning on mocks extracted from the Cosmological Web Portal submitted

  • 21.06.2019:
    Full Catalouge Data from the Web Portal released for easy access

  • 28.02.2019:
    First Full-Dome show has been release at the Planetarium of the Deusches Museum

  • 18.12.2018:
    First Article utilizing the Cosmological Web Portal appeared

  • 26.10.2018:
    Article on comparing 3D spectroscopic observations submitted

  • 18.10.2018:
    Article on halo concentration submitted

  • 04.10.2018:
    Article on satellite galaxy quenching submitted

  • 19.08.2018:
    Article on X-ray emission from WHIM submitted

  • 10.07.2018:
    Article on Metallicity gradients in early-type galaxies accepted

  • 18.06.2018:
    Article on relative bias of void tracers submitted

  • 11.05.2018:
    Article on AGN triggering submitted

  • 27.03.2018:
    Article on AGN in clusters submitted

  • 23.03.2018:
    Article on BCGs offsets submitted

  • 07.03.2018:
    Article on substructures in clusters submitted

  • 02.02.2018:
    Article on kinematics of ETGs submitted

  • 15.12.2017:
    Article on kinematic SZ submitted

  • 28.11.2017:
    Article on lensing PDFs submitted

  • 20.11.2017:
    Article on high-z rotation curves submitted

  • 25.08.2017:
    Article on ICL submitted

  • 30.06.2017:
    Article on metalicities submitted

  • 15.06.2017:
    Press Release for Data Portal

  • 20.02.2017:
    Article on Satellite Fraction submitted

  • 15.12.2016:
    Article on SZE Observables submitted

  • 18.10.2016:
    Article on Voids submitted

  • 30.09.2015:
    Data Portal for Magneticum Project online

  • 29.07.2016:
    Article on Data Portal submitted

  • 25.05.2016:
    Article using halo mass function of Box0 submitted

  • 01.05.2016:
    GAUSS proposal Near Field Cosmology granted

  • 07.03.2016:
    Article on Early-Type Galaxies submitted

  • 27.10.2015:
    Article on Dual AGN submitted

  • 21.10.2015:
    Press Release for Magneticum Project

  • 15.09.2015:
    Article on SZ effect submitted

  • 30.07.2015:
    Box0/mr reached z=0 on SuperMUC-2

  • 7.05.2015:
    Article on Redshift-space clustering submitted

  • 11.03.2015:
    Article on Angular Momentum and Morphology submitted

  • 26.02.2015:
    Article on Magneticum halo mass functions submitted

  • 26.02.2015:
    Article on Improved SPH submitted

  • 6.01.2015:
    Article on the evolution of BM mass function

  • 15.12.2014:
    Article on FRBs submitted

  • 14.09.2014:
    Article on refined AGN model submitted

  • 25.07.2014:
    Stereo Movie of Box2/hr for LRZ PowerWall made

  • 5.06.2014:
    First 6h production run of Box0/mr on SuperMUC

  • 24.04.2014:
    Article on the evolution of pressure profiles in clusters

  • 28.04.2014:
    Magneticum article in inSiDE

  • 07.12.2013:
    Article using the mock SZ light-cones

  • 5.11.2013:
    GAUSS proposal Magneticum granted (Intel/SuperMUC)

  • 01.08.2013:
    Article investigating the AGN properties

  • 10.06.2013:
    First scaling test on 131072 cores succesfull (16Islands/SuperMUC)

  • 03.07.2013:
    Article using the velocity dispersion of galaxies

  • 24.09.2012:
    Article computing x-ray scaling relations for clusters

  • 16.08.2012:
    LRZ proposal SuperCAST granted (Intel/SuperMUC)

  • 14.08.2012:
    KONWIHR III proposal granted (OpenMP optimization Gadget)

  • 17.07.2012:
    PLANCK paper using ICM pressure profiles

  • 09.07.2012:
    Article using inner structures of elliptical galaxies

  • 28.03.2012:
    First article using Magneticum Pathfnder data for galaxy orbits

  • 28.04.2011:
    PRACE proposal Magneticum Pathfinder II granted (BGP/Jugene)

  • 1.09.2010:
    DECI-6 proposal MagPath granted (SP6/Huygens)

Large-scale cosmological simulations utilizing modern supercomputers play a significant role in theoretical studies of the structure formation of the Universe. They are essential tools for accurately calculating theoretical predictions of the distribution and state of the baryonic and dark matter in the Universe. Especially in the non-linear regime of gravitational dynamics and hydrodynamics, where galaxies and clusters of galaxies form out of the large scale structure, they are of utmost importance. To fully exploit the potential of the upcoming large sky surveys for cosmology and to study the effects of Dark Energy, it is necessary to improve the predictions of how the large-scale structures are traced by the luminous matter.

This demands a detailed description of various complex, non-gravitational, physical processes in the simulation codes, which determine the evolution of the cosmic baryons and have an impact on their observational properties. Amongst them are the star formation and related feedback; chemical pollution by SN Ia (Supernova Type Ia), SN II (Supernova Type II) and asymptotic giant branch (AGB) winds; transport processes like thermal conduction; the evolution of black holes and their related active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback as well as magnetic fields. All these must be self-consistently coupled with the underlying hydrodynamics.

The Magneticum Pathfinder Simulations are a set of cosmological, hydrodynamical simulations following 1010 particles and beyond, including those physical processes in details. The most computational intensive of them covers a cosmic volume of 1 Gpc3 and will allow us to produce a theoretical counterpart to interpret the data coming from the current and the forthcoming astronomical surveys or instruments, e.g. PLANCK, SPT, DES and eROSITA.

This will be supplemented by simulations of smaller volumes with higher spatial/mass resolution to follow the evolution of galaxies in detail and, especially, the AGN population. This will allow, for the very first time, to self consistently study galaxy clusters and groups, galaxies, and AGN within an enormous volume of the Universe as well as study galaxy formation and its interplay with black hole evolution in detail.

Members of the project are affiliated with:

LMU USM LRZ MPA Logo MPE OATS UNITR UNIBO
INAF Excellence Cluster Caastro IMPRS DFG Priority Program 1573 TR33 DFG Forschergruppe