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Galacticus: A semi-analytic model of galaxy formation

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Benson, Andrew J.·2012·New Astronomy
DOI 10.1016/j.newast.2011.07.004
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We describe a new, free and open source semi-analytic model of galaxy formation, GALACTICUS. The GALACTICUS model was designed to be highly modular to facilitate expansion and the exploration of alternative descriptions of key physical ingredients. We detail the GALACTICUS engine for evolving galaxies through a merging hierarchy of dark matter halos and give details of the specific implementations of physics currently available in GALACTICUS. Finally, we show results from an example model that is in reasonably good agreement with several observational datasets. We use this model to explore numerical convergence and to demonstrate the types of information which can be extracted from GALACTICUS.

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Authors
Benson, A. J.
Venue
New Astronomy
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2012-02
Volume
17
Issue
2
Pages
175-197
ISSN
1384-1076 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.newast.2011.07.004
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W2008877686
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357
References
3
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journal article
Language
en
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