Issue |
A&A
Volume 575, March 2015
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Article Number | A33 | |
Number of page(s) | 25 | |
Section | Numerical methods and codes | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424462 | |
Published online | 19 February 2015 |
Towards a new modelling of gas flows in a semi-analytical model of galaxy formation and evolution⋆
1
Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS), Bâtiment 121, Université Paris-Sud
11 and CNRS (UMR 8617),
91405
Orsay,
France
e-mail:
morgane.cousin@ias.u-psud.fr
2
Université Lyon 1, Observatoire de Lyon,
9 avenue Charles André,
69230
Saint-Genis-Laval,
France
3
CNRS (UMR 5574), Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon, École Normale
Supérieure de Lyon, 69007
Lyon,
France
4
European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748
Garching,
Germany
5
Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, LAM (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique
de Marseille) UMR 7326, 13388
Marseille,
France
Received: 24 June 2014
Accepted: 17 October 2014
We present an extended version of the semi-analytical model, GalICS. Like its predecessor, eGalICS applies a post-treatment of the baryonic physics on pre-computed dark-matter merger trees extracted from an N-body simulation. We review all the mechanisms that affect, at any given time, the formation and evolution of a galaxy in its host dark-matter halo. We mainly focus on the gas cycle from the smooth cosmological accretion to feedback processes. To follow this cycle with a high accuracy, we introduce some novel prescriptions: i) a smooth baryonic accretion with two phases: a cold mode and a hot mode built on the continuous dark-matter accretion. In parallel to this smooth accretion, we implement the standard photoionisation modelling to reduce the input gas flow on the smallest structures. ii) a complete monitoring of the hot gas phase. We compute the evolution of the core density, the mean temperature and the instantaneous escape fraction of the hot atmosphere by considering that the hot gas is in hydrostatic equilibrium in the dark-matter potential well, and by applying a principle of conservation of energy on the treatment of gas accretion, supernovae and super massive black hole feedback iii) a new treatment for disc instabilities based on the formation, the migration and the disruption of giant clumps. The migration of such clumps in gas-rich galaxies allows to form pseudo-bulges. The different processes in the gas cycle act on different time scales, and we thus build an adaptive time-step scheme to solve the evolution equations. The model presented here is compared in detail to the observations of stellar-mass functions, star formation rates, and luminosity functions, in a companion paper. Model outputs are available at the CDS.
Key words: galaxies: formation / galaxies: evolution / dark matter / large-scale structure of Universe
Model outputs are only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/575/A33
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