Shocks and non-thermal particles in clusters of galaxies

AM Bykov, F Vazza, JA Kropotina, KP Levenfish… - Space Science …, 2019 - Springer
Galaxy clusters grow by gas accretion, mostly from mergers of substructures, which release
powerful shock waves into cosmic plasmas and convert a fraction of kinetic energy into …

How primordial magnetic fields shrink galaxies

S Martin-Alvarez, A Slyz, J Devriendt… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
As one of the prime contributors to the interstellar medium energy budget, magnetic fields
naturally play a part in shaping the evolution of galaxies. Galactic magnetic fields can …

The large-scale environment from cosmological simulations–I. The baryonic cosmic web

W Cui, A Knebe, G Yepes, X Yang… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Using a series of cosmological simulations that includes one dark-matter-only (DM-only) run,
one gas cooling–star formation–supernova feedback (CSF) run and one that additionally …

Troubled cosmic flows: turbulence, enstrophy, and helicity from the assembly history of the intracluster medium

D Vallés-Pérez, S Planelles… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Both simulations and observations have shown that turbulence is a pervasive phenomenon
in cosmic scenarios, yet it is particularly difficult to model numerically due to its intrinsically …

The halo-finding problem revisited: a deep revision of the ASOHF code

D Vallés-Pérez, S Planelles, V Quilis - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. New-generation cosmological simulations are providing huge amounts of data,
whose analysis becomes itself a pressing computational problem. In particular, the …

Exploring the role of cosmological shock waves in the Dianoga simulations of galaxy clusters

S Planelles, S Borgani, V Quilis… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Cosmological shock waves are ubiquitous to cosmic structure formation and evolution. As a
consequence, they play a major role in the energy distribution and thermalization of the …

Multiwavelength mock observations of the WHIM in a simulated galaxy cluster

S Planelles, P Mimica, V Quilis… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
About half of the expected total baryon budget in the local Universe is 'missing'.
Hydrodynamical simulations suggest that most of the missing baryons are located in a mildly …

Exploring the voids: Luminosity functions and magnetic field

A Roychowdhury, S Samui - New Astronomy, 2022 - Elsevier
We present semi-analytical models for magnetisation of the void inter-galactic medium (IGM)
by outflows from void galaxies. The number density of dark matter haloes in an under-dense …