https://wwwmpa.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/virgo/millennium/ * MPA-HOMEPAGE * * contact * press * links * site * disclaimer * INTERNAL * map [mpalogo2] [w_block] [ ] [520white] [Suchen] [Quickfinder ] [go2] [hl_white] The Millennium Simulation Project --------------------------------------------------------------- [cosmo4] MPA Homepage > Scientific Research > Research Groups > Galaxy Formation > VIRGO > Millennium Simulation Project * [l] [l] [hl_white] [l] Introduction: The Millennium Simulation Go to: The Millennium Run used more than 10 billion particles to trace the -Movies of the evolution of the matter distribution in a cubic region of the simulation Universe over 2 billion light-years on a side. It kept busy the -Pictures of the principal supercomputer at the Max Planck Society's Supercomputing galaxy distribution Centre in Garching, Germany for more than a month. By applying -Slices of the dark sophisticated modelling techniques to the 25 Tbytes of stored output, matter distribution Virgo scientists have been able to recreate evolutionary histories -Halo and both for the 20 million or so galaxies which populate this enormous semi-analytic galaxy volume and for the supermassive black holes which occasionally power catalogues quasars at their hearts. By comparing such simulated data to large -References observational surveys, one can clarify the physical processes underlying the buildup of real galaxies and black holes. linkData Visualization * (images & movies from Numerical Movies of the simulationtop Simulation projects) A 3-dimensional visualization of the Millennium Simulation. The movie link VIRGO Members shows a journey through the simulated universe. On the way, we visit link VIRGO Links a rich cluster of galaxies and fly around it. During the two minutes external link Main of the movie, we travel a distance for which light would need more U.K. Site than 2.4 billion years. [stripe_3dmovie_small] Get this movie in different versions: movie Fast flight [divx5, 60 MB, 1024x768] movie Slow flight [divx5, 120 MB, 1024x768] Credit: Springel et al. (2005) The movies below shows the dark matter distribution in the universe at the present time, based on the Millennium Simulation, the largest N-body simulation carried out thus far (more than 10^10 particles). By zooming in on a massive cluster of galaxies, the movie highlights the morphology of the structure on different scales, and the large dynamic range of the simulation (10^5 per dimension in 3D). The zoom extends from scales of several Gpc down to resolved substructures as small as ~10 kpc. [stripe_zoommovie_small] Get this movie in different resolutions: movie High Quality [divx5, 48.6 MB, 1024x768] movie Medium Quality [divx5, 13.4 MB, 640x480] movie Low Quality [divx5, 10.8 MB, 512x384] movie Slow Zoom [divx5, 165.6 MB, 1024x768] Credit: Springel et al. (2005) * Pictures of the galaxy distributiontop The top row of the following pictures shows the galaxy distribution in the simulation, both on very large scales, and for a rich cluster of galaxies where one can see them individually. The top right panel hence represents the large-scale light distribution in the Universe. For comparison, the images in the lower row give the corresponding dark matter distributions. Click to enlarge the images. [gal_dm_z0] [galseq_D_0] [cluster_A_] [seqD_063a_] * Slices of the dark matter distribution top The following poster shows a projected density field for a 15 Mpc/h thick slice of the redshift z=0 output. The overlaid panels zoom in by factors of 4 in each case, enlarging the regions indicated by the white squares. Yardsticks are included as well. The postscript file has been produced for A0 format. Beware of it's huge size. 768x1024 link 1536x2048 [poster_sma] link poster.ps.gz, A0, 280 MB The following slices through the density field are all 15 Mpc/h thick. For each redshift, we show three panels. Subsequent panels zoom in by a factor of four with respect to the previous ones. Redshift z=0 (t = 13.6 Gyr): [seqB_063a_] [seqD_063a_] [seqF_063a_] link1024x768 link link1024x768 link link1024x768 link 2048x1536 2048x1536 2048x1536 Redshift z=1.4 (t = 4.7 Gyr): [seqB_037a_] [seqD_037a_] [seqF_037a_] link1024x768 link link1024x768 link link1024x768 link 2048x1536 2048x1536 2048x1536 Redshift z=5.7 (t = 1.0 Gyr): [seqB_019a_] [seqD_019a_] [seqF_019a_] link1024x768 link link1024x768 link link1024x768 link 2048x1536 2048x1536 2048x1536 Redshift z=18.3 (t = 0.21 Gyr): [seqB_005a_] [seqD_005a_] [seqF_005a_] link1024x768 link link 1024x768 link link1024x768 link 2048x1536 2048x1536 2048x1536 * Halo and semi-analytic galaxy catalogues top 1. Together with a paper by link Croton et al. (2005), a first set of semi-analytic catalogues has been made available. Follow link this link for a download page. In these catalogues, galaxy magnitudes are available in both BVRIK (Vega) or ugriz (AB SDSS) filters. The catalogues only include galaxies above our magnitude completeness limit (-17.4 in r (SDSS) and -16.4 in B), for a total of about 9 million galaxies in the full simulation box (500 Mpc/h on a side). The galaxies are stored as either a binary structure (~620 Mb, IDL script available) or in ASCII format (~980 Mb). A "mini" version of the catalogue is also available for testing purposes (<2 Mb), which is identical in every way to the full version but in a smaller periodic box of 62.5 Mpc/h on a side. 2. Recently, the full Millennium semi-analytic catalogue at all redshifts, together with the complete dark matter merging history trees, has been made publicly available. This release has been announced on astro-ph by linkLemson et al. (2006), and link this page describes the data products available and where and how they can be accessed. The data can be studied with a powerful SQL-query interface that is oriented along the concept of a Virtual Astronomical Obervatory. * Referencestop 1. Simulations of the formation, evolution and clustering of galaxies and quasars Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White, Adrian Jenkins, Carlos S. Frenk, Naoki Yoshida, Liang Gao, Julio Navarro, Robert Thacker, Darren Croton, John Helly, John A. Peacock, Shaun Cole, Peter Thomas, Hugh Couchman, August Evrard, Joerg Colberg & Frazer Pearce, 2005, Nature, 435, 629 2. The age dependence of halo clustering Liang Gao, Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White, 2005, MNRAS, in press 3. The many lives of AGN: cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies Darren J. Croton, Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White, G. De Lucia, C. S. Frenk, L. Gao, A. Jenkins, G. Kauffmann, J. F. Navarro, N. Yoshida, 2005, MNRAS, submitted 4. The cosmological simulation code GADGET-2 Volker Springel, 2005, MNRAS, submitted 5. Supercomputer Simulations Explain the Formation of Galaxies and Quasars in the Universe Max-Planck Society, 2005, link Press Release 6. The largest N-body simulation of the universe Volker Springel, 2004, link MPA research highlight article * Comments to: Virgo Administrator # virgo@mpa-garching.mpg.detop