| Date: |
July 2, 2008, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Place: |
Room 633, 6th floor, Research Centers Building, Kashiwa Campus of the University of Tokyo |
| Speaker: |
Kentaro Nagamine (U. Nevada) |
| Title: |
Galaxy Formation through Cosmic Time using Cosmological Hydrodynamic Simulations: successes and current issues |
| Abstract: |
Full understanding of galaxy formation requires extending the model from
high-redshift to the present time. This necessitates enormous coverage in
spatial and temporal range.
Cosmological hydrodynamic simulations are one of the most useful tools in
achieving this goal, because they allow self-consistent treatments of both
gravitational and gas dynamics without resorting to simplified, approximate
equations in nonlinear regimes.
In this talk, I will give an overview of the study of galaxy formation using
cosmological hydrodynamic simulations for non- experts, and describe the
successes and failures of current simulations. I will also focus on the
cosmic star formation history, stellar mass density, Ly-break galaxies,
Ly-alpha emitters and damped Ly-alpha systems as useful probes of high-z
galaxy formation.
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