Galaxy Mergers with Adaptive Mesh Refinement: Star Formation and Hot Gas Outflow

  Ji-hoon Kim [Home], John H. Wise, and Tom Abel  (arXiv:0902.3001)


1. Parameters and Documentations

  - Two 1.8e10 Ms galaxy progenitors with 10% in gas set on a coplanar hyperbolic collision orbit, Evolved for 6.0 Gyrs
  - Radiative cooling, Star formation and feedback, Resolved by ~2e7 computational elements with finest resolution of 3.8 pc
  - For details, see the abstract or my ApJ Letter (high-resolution). Also, my 1-hour talk given in JILA Lunch@CU Boulder can be of your interest.

2. Density-weighted Projection of Density (Face-on)
  Movie (80 kpc Box):
 zproj_density.mpeg
 zproj_density.avi

3. Temperature Slice (Face-on, Sliced at the Orbital Plane)
  Movie (80 kpc Box):
 zslice_temp.mpeg
 zslice_temp.avi

4. Star Particle Distribution (Face-on, Colored by Creation Time)
  Movie (80 kpc Box):
 zproj_star.mpeg
 zproj_star.avi

5. Density-square-weighted Projection of Metal Density (Edge-on)
  Movie (2 Mpc Box):
 yproj_metal_density.mpeg
 yproj_metal_density.avi

6. Selected Plots and Pictures (Click to See the High-resolution Image)
  (1)   Star formation rate
  for 5.5 Gyrs
  (left: linear / right: log)

  (2)   The time evolution of
  the stellar and gas mass
  in the central 200 kpc box

  (3)   Joint probability distribution functions
  for the central 400 kpc sphere
  (left: 0.8 Gyrs / right: 5.7 Gyrs)

  (4)   The global Kennicutt-Schmidt relation
  for an isolated galaxy formation

  (5)   A merger simulation snapshot
  generated by Partiview



  Check out my research topics in my homepage. If any question, send me an email at me@jihoonkim.org. (Last update: Feb.18/2009)