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计算机上的宇宙再电离:数值和物理收敛

Cosmic Reionization On Computers: Numerical and Physical Convergence

Nickolay Y. Gnedin

摘要:

在本文中,我表明,在计算机上的宇宙再电离(CROC)项目下进行的再电离模拟收敛在空间和质量,虽然相当缓慢。一个完全收敛的解(对于给定的恒星形成和反馈模型)可以在大约20%的精度水平下确定,但是这样的解在实践中是无用的,因为在生产级模拟中实现它需要在各种质量和空间分辨率下运行大量的计算资源,并且这样的任务还没有现成的计算资源。为了在此期间取得进展,我在恒星形成配方中引入了弱收敛校正因子,它允许人们用有限分辨率模拟来近似完全收敛的解。弱收敛模拟的准确性接近一个可比的,~20%的精度水平的恒星形成历史的个人星系晕和其他星系的性质,直接关系到恒星形成率,如恒星质量和金属丰度。然而,模型星系的其他属性,例如,他们的HI质量,恢复在弱收敛运行仅在两个因素。

英文摘要:

In this paper I show that simulations of reionization performed under the Cosmic Reionization On Computers (CROC) project do converge in space and mass, albeit rather slowly. A fully converged solution (for a given star formation and feedback model) can be determined at a level of precision of about 20%, but such a solution is useless in practice, since achieving it in production-grade simulations would require a large set of runs at various mass and spatial resolutions, and computational resources for such an undertaking are not yet readily available. In order to make progress in the interim, I introduce a weak convergence correction factor in the star formation recipe, which allows one to approximate the fully converged solution with finite resolution simulations. The accuracy of weakly converged simulations approaches a comparable, ~20% level of precision for star formation histories of individual galactic halos and other galactic properties that are directly related to star formation rates, like stellar masses and metallicities. Yet other properties of model galaxies, for example, their HI masses, are recovered in the weakly converged runs only within a factor of two.

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