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20 April 2024

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nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations I: dark matter & non-radiative models
Federico Sembolini ; Gustavo Yepes ; Frazer R. Pearce ; Alexander Knebe ; Scott T. Kay ; Chris Power ; Weiguang Cui ; Alexander M. Beck ; Stefano Borgani ; Claudio Dalla Vecchia ; Romeel Davé ; Pascal Jahan Elahi ; Sean February ; Shuiyao Huang ; Alex Hobbs ; Neal Katz ; Erwin Lau ; Ian G. McCarthy ; Giuseppe Murante ; Daisuke Nagai ; Kaylea Nelson ; Richard D. A. Newton ; Ewald Puchwein ; Justin I. Read ; Alexandro Saro ; Joop Schaye ; Robert J. Thacker ;
Date:	20 Mar 2015
Abstract:	We have simulated the formation of a galaxy cluster in a $Lambda$CDM universe using twelve different codes modeling only gravity and non-radiative hydrodynamics (art, arepo, hydra and 9 incarnations of GADGET). This range of codes includes particle based, moving and fixed mesh codes as well as both Eulerian and Lagrangian fluid schemes. The various GADGET implementations span traditional and advanced smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) schemes. The goal of this comparison is to assess the reliability of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of clusters in the simplest astrophysically relevant case, that in which the gas is assumed to be non-radiative. We compare images of the cluster at $z=0$, global properties such as mass, and radial profiles of various dynamical and thermodynamical quantities. The underlying gravitational framework can be aligned very accurately for all the codes allowing a detailed investigation of the differences that develop due to the various gas physics implementations employed. As expected, the mesh-based codes ART and AREPO form extended entropy cores in the gas with rising central gas temperatures. Those codes employing traditional SPH schemes show falling entropy profiles all the way into the very centre with correspondingly rising density profiles and central temperature inversions. We show that methods with modern SPH schemes that allow entropy mixing span the range between these two extremes and the latest SPH variants produce gas entropy profiles that are essentially indistinguishable from those obtained with grid based methods.
Source:	arXiv, 1503.6065
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