Hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation with non-Gaussian initial conditions

Autor(en)
Clément Stahl, Yohan Dubois, Benoit Famaey, Oliver Hahn, Rodrigo Ibata, Katarina Kraljic, Thomas Montandon
Abstrakt

Collisionless simulations of structure formation with significant local primordial non-Gaussianities at Mpc scales have shown that a non-Gaussian tail favouring underdensities, with a negative f

NL parameter, can significantly change the merging history of galaxy-sized dark matter halos, which then typically assemble later than in vanilla ΛCDM. Moreover, such a small-scale negative f

NL could have interesting consequences for the cosmological S

8 tension. Here, we complement our previous work on collisionless simulations with new hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation in boxes of 30 Mpc/h, using the RAMSES code. In particular, we show that all feedback prescriptions being otherwise identical, simulations with a negative f

NL ∼ -1000 on small scales, hence forming galaxies a bit later than in vanilla ΛCDM, allow to form simulated galaxies with more disky kinematics than in the vanilla case. Therefore, such small-scale primordial non-Gaussianities could potentially help alleviate, simultaneously, tensions in cosmology and galaxy formation. These hydrodynamical simulations on small scales will need to be complemented with larger box simulations with scale-dependent non-Gaussianities, to statistically confirm these trends and explore their observational consequences in further detail.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Astrophysik
Externe Organisation(en)
Université de Strasbourg, Icm & Sorbonne University
Journal
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP)
Band
2023
Anzahl der Seiten
14
ISSN
1475-7516
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2023/09/036
Publikationsdatum
09-2023
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
103004 Astrophysik, 103044 Kosmologie, 103043 Computational Physics
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/93953ce4-8e45-4875-af8c-091f70cd85ac