How to model black hole physics in cosmological simulations?

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• Debora Sijacki (IoA)
• Monday 18 May 2015, 13:00-14:00
• CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

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Hydrodynamical cosmological simulations are one of the most powerful tools to study the formation and evolution of galaxies and their central black holes in the fully non-linear regime. Despite several recent successes in simulating Milky Way look-alikes, self-consistent, ab-initio models are still a long way off. In this talk I will briefly review numerical and physical uncertainties plaguing current state-of-the-art cosmological simulations of galaxy formation. I will then present global properties of galaxies and black holes as obtained with novel cosmological simulations, the so-called Illustris project, and discuss which feedback mechanisms are needed to reproduce realistic stellar masses and galaxy morphologies in the present day Universe. In the second part of the talk I will discuss novel ways how to model black hole physics on small scales and how to incorporate these methods in large-scale cosmological simulations.

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