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News and events
- EFI/Astro/KICP talks
- Notes from the 2007 KITP conference on star formation
- Notes from the UC Irvine conference
- Aspen Cluster Conference website
- Notes from the U. Maryland workshop "Shedding light on dark matter
- Future of Cluster Cosmology conference at Perimeter Institute
- PiTP Computational Astrophysics
Resources
- Some Useful Review Material
- Publications by group members
- Interesting recent papers
- A sample sandbox page with examples
- Master bibtex file
Related sites
- KICP
- U.Chicago Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Fermilab Astro Theory
- Dark Energy Survey
- Andrew Zentner's Wiki @ U.Pitt
Simulations
- List of simulations done by our group and collaborators
- Simulation, analysis, and visualization codes
Current Projects within the Group
- add link to a page of your project here
- The ART of H2
- Effects of Baryons on the Dark Matter Virial Scaling Relation
- ART_History - A New Merger Tree Code
- Simulating the Formation of Massive Ellipticals
- Hydro solver tests
- Molecular Cooling and Galaxy Formation
- Redshift evolution of the cluster N-M relation
- The distribution of angular momentum of dark matter and gas in cluster-size halos
- The Formation and Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies
- Collapse barriers and the shape of the mass function.
- The Xray Luminosity of Halos in HART/CART Simulations
- Shape of Intracluster gas
- Lensing Systematics
Old(er) Projects
- Damped Lyman Alpha Systems
- The Heating of Milky Way-like Thin Disks By Halo Substructure
- Tabulating the ionized fraction, cooling rate, and heating rate using CLOUDY
- Precision Calibration of the Halo Mass Function
- Halo Model Analysis of Magnesium II Absorbers
- The Star Formation Law in a Multifractal ISM
- There is no void phenomenon
- Supermassive black hole simulations
- Degradation of Dark Energy Constraints from WL due to Baryonic effects
- Modeling the galaxy three-point correlation function
- Stellar Mass Growth
- Effect of SN Feedback on the Scaling Relations of Dwarf Galaxies
- Distribution of Galactic Satellites
- Subhalos Mass Profiles in 2D
- Effects of Baryons on Matter Power Spectrum
- Escape Fraction of Ionizing Radiation from Galaxies
- Modeling Galaxy Clustering
- Clustering in the Millennium Run: Testing Halo Occupation Models
- ICM Turbulence and Cluster Hydrostatic Mass Estimate
- The Effect of Feedback on the IGM
- Fluctuations in the UV Background
Looking for something to do? Look no further: new project ideas
- Start writing ART3 (see here [abs,pdf]).
- Biasing in the LRGs: need mocks!
- Metallicity Evolution in the Intracluster Medium
- Systematics in Isophotal Radius-Mass Scaling Relation
- Intracluster light simulation?
- add your project idea here if you need help
Group Members (at the University of Chicago)
Andrey Kravtsov, Jeremy Tinker, Kostas Tassis, Brant Robertson, Hiroaki Oyaizu, Sam Leitner, Erwin Lau, Jean-Rene Gauthier, Matthew Becker
Associate members and Alumni
Nick Gnedin (Fermilab), Daisuke Nagai (CalTech), Iro Tasitsiomi (Princeton), Sweet Stelios Kazantzidis (KIPAC/Stanford), Michael Mortonson (U.Chicago), Sweet Charlie Conroy (Princeton), Risa Wechsler (KIPAC/Stanford), Andrew Zentner (Pitt), Eduardo Rozo (CCAPP/OSU) Jacqueline Chen (Bonn), Douglas Rudd (IAS)
Collaborators
Anatoly Klypin (NMSU), Stefan Gottloeber (AIP, Potsdam), Nick Gnedin (Fermilab), Alexey Vikhlinin (HEA, SAO), Paco Prada, Gustavo Yepes (Universidad Autonoma, Madrid), Savvas Koushiappas (Los Alamos), Oleg Gnedin (Michigan), Monica Valluri (Michigan)
