Substructures in hydrodynamical cluster simulations

The abundance and structure of dark matter subhaloes have been analysed extensively in recent studies of dark-matter-only simulations, but comparatively little is known about the impact of baryonic physics on halo substructures. We here extend the SUBFIND algorithm for substructure identification such that it can be reliably applied to dissipative hydrodynamical simulations that include star formation. This allows, in particular, the identification of galaxies as substructures in simulations of clusters of galaxies and a determination of their content of gravitationally bound stars, dark matter and hot and cold gas. Using a large set of cosmological cluster simulations, we present a detailed analysis of halo…

• ES
  European Science Foundation
• M
  Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
• UD
  Università degli Studi di Trieste
• MF
  Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik