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Table 2.

Physical properties used from the EAGLE data for stars and gas particles.

Property Symbol Description [Units]
Gas properties

Density ρ Co-moving density [g cm−3]
Smoothed element abundance hydrogen XH SPH weighted hydrogen abundance
Smoothed element abundance carbon XC SPH weighted carbon abundance
Entropy E Particle entropy [Pressure × Densityγ]
Mass mSPH Particle mass [g]
Smoothed metallicity Z SPH kernel weighted metallicity
Smoothing length h Co-moving SPH smoothing kernel [cm]
Star formation rate SFR Instantaneous star formation rate [M yr−1]
Temperature TSPH Particle temperature (from the internal energy) [K]

Star properties

Star formation time t* Time when a star particle was born
Stellar mass m* Current particle mass [g]
Smoothed metallicity Z* Co-moving SPH smoothing metallicity

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