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Nexus:一个用于理想化星系受控模拟的框架

Nexus: A framework for conrolled simulations of idealised galaxies

Thor Tepper-Garcia, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Eugene Vasiliev, Oscar Agertz, Romain Teyssier, Christoph Federrath

AI总结:

本文提出NEXUS框架,结合AGAMA与RAMSES并扩展气体成分建模,用于生成和演化自洽的理想化星系模型,以研究恒星与气体的长期动力学相互作用。

摘要:

出于对既真实、动力学自洽又能演化的星系模型的需求,同时避免完整宇宙学模拟和缩放宇宙学模拟的复杂性,我们开发了 NEXUS,这是一个用于创建并演化由无碰撞成分和气体成分构成的合成星系的整体框架。NEXUS 利用了公开可用且经过充分检验的软件包的能力:基于作用量的恒星动力学库 AGAMA,以及经过修改以满足我们需求的自适应网格细化 N 体/流体动力学程序 RAMSES。此外,我们还使用了一个专有模块来处理星系形成物理,包括气体冷却与加热、恒星形成、恒星反馈和化学增丰。NEXUS 的基本功能包括为多种星系模型生成定制初始条件(ICs),并在时间上推进这些初始条件以模拟星系的演化。完全自洽的初始条件采用基于分布函数的方法生成,该方法在 AGAMA 的星系建模模块中实现——此前仅限于无碰撞成分,本工作将其扩展以处理两类气体构型:热晕和气体盘。NEXUS 允许构建盘气体分数为 $0~\leq~f_{\rm gas}~\leq~1$ 的平衡模型,适用于模拟低红移和高红移星系。同样,该框架非常适合研究星系生态学,即恒星与气体在数十亿年间的动力学相互作用。作为对我们框架的验证和展示,我们重现了早期研究中报道的若干孤立星系模型设置,并展示了一个新的“嵌套棒”星系模拟。NEXUS 的未来升级将包括磁流体动力学和高能粒子(“宇宙线”)加热。

英文摘要:

Motivated by the need for realistic, dynamically self-consistent, evolving galaxy models that avoid the complexity of full, and zoom-in, cosmological simulations, we have developed NEXUS, an integral framework to create and evolve synthetic galaxies made of collisionless and gaseous components. NEXUS leverages the power of publicly available, tried-and-tested packages: the stellar-dynamics, action-based library AGAMA; and the adaptive mesh refinement, N-body/hydrodynamical code RAMSES, modified to meet our needs. In addition, we make use of a proprietary module to account for galaxy formation physics, including gas cooling and heating, star formation, stellar feedback, and chemical enrichment. NEXUS' basic functionality consists in the generation of bespoke initial conditions (ICs) for a diversity of galaxy models, which are advanced in time to simulate the galaxy's evolution. The fully self-consistent ICs are generated with a distribution-function based approach, as implemented in the galaxy modelling module of AGAMA -- up to now restricted to collisionless components, extended in this work to treat two types of gaseous configurations: hot halos and gas discs. NEXUS allows constructing equilibrium models with disc gas fractions $0~\leq~f_{\rm gas}~\leq~1$, appropriate to model both low- and high-redshift galaxies. Similarly, the framework is ideally suited to the study of galactic ecology, i.e. the dynamical interplay between stars and gas over billions of years. As a validation and illustration of our framework, we reproduce several isolated galaxy model setups reported in earlier studies, and present a new, `nested bar' galaxy simulation. Future upgrades of NEXUS will include magneto-hydrodynamics and highly energetic particle (`cosmic ray') heating.

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