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	The Magneticum Pathfinder simulations are complemented with a set of additional simulations, which allow to test the effect of physical sub-grid models on the evolution of galaxies and galaxy clusters as well as to allow to include the effects of the prominent structures in the local universe on observables.
	Local Universe Simulation
		Coruscant Coruscant is a cosmological re-simulation of the local universe based on initial conditions reconstructed from the 1.2 muJ IRAS full sky survey. This simulation is designed to represent the observed local neighborhood out ca. 110Mpc and makes it possible to identify prominent haloes from the simulations with real observed galaxy cluster. This simulaion is available including various physical processes and is also part of the PLANCK sky mode. There is a version of the simulation available which includes exactly the same sub-grid models than used in the Magneticum Pathfinder set of simulations.
	Relevant Publications: Constrained simulations of the magnetic field in the local Universe and the propagation of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays Dolag, Grasso, Springel & Tkachev, JCAP 2005 The imprints of local superclusters on the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich signals and their detectability with Planck Dolag, Hansen, Roncarelli & Moscardini, MNRAS 2005 Relative velocity of dark matter and baryons in clusters of galaxies and measurements of their peculiar velocities Dolag & Sunyaev, MNRAS 2013 The pre-launch Planck Sky Model: a model of sky emission at submillimetre to centimetre wavelengths Delabrouille et al., A&A 2013
	Cluster re-simulations
	Dianoga Cluster With the aim to understand the formation of galaxy clusters and especially the impact of the gas physics and the feedback processes involved on the evolution the inra cluster medium, we performed high-resolution zoom simulations of a set of mass limited galaxies clusters selected from a large cosmological box (Gpc in size) describe with the standard WMAP-7 LCDM cosmological parameters. We produced 24 Lagrangian regions etracted around the most massive clusters. For each of these regions, initial conditions have been re-generated by increasing mass resolution and adding high-frequency modes, while progressively degrading resolution in outer regions. For each cluster, initial conditions have been generated at the level of the hr resolutions of the Magenticum Pathfinder simulations. These simulations are used to test the implementation of new physical modules and to quantify the impact of the sub-grip models on the intra cluster medium.
	Relevant Publications: A non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic GADGET: simulating massive galaxy clusters Bonafede, Dolag, Stasyszyn, Murante & Borgani, MNRAS 2011 X-ray mass proxies from hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy clusters - I Fabjan, Borgani, Rasia, Bonafede, Dolag, Murante & Tornatore, MNRAS 2011 Pointing to the minimum scatter: the generalized scaling relations for galaxy clusters Ettori, Rasia, Fabjan, Borgani & Dolag, MNRAS 2012 Lensing and x-ray mass estimates of clusters (simulations) Rasia et al, NJPh 2012 How baryonic processes affect strong lensing properties of simulated galaxy clusters Killedar, Borgani, Meneghetti, Dolag, Fabjan & Tornatore, MNRAS 2012 The relation between velocity dispersion and mass in simulated clusters of galaxies: dependence on the tracer and the baryonic physics Munari, Biviano, Borgani, Murante & Fabjan, MNRAS 2013 Baryon census in hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters Planelles, Borgani, Dolag, Ettori, Fabjan, Murante & Tornatore, MNRAS 2013 Large-scale inhomogeneities of the intracluster medium: improving mass estimates using the observed azimuthal scatter Roncarelli, Ettori, Borgani, Dolag, Fabjan & Moscardini, MNRAS 2013 Brightest cluster galaxies in cosmological simulations: achievements and limitations of active galactic nuclei feedback models Ragone-Figueroa, Granato, Murante, Borgani & Cui, MNRAS 2013 Characterizing diffused stellar light in simulated galaxy clusters Cui, Murante, Monaco, Borgani, Granato, Killedar, De Lucia, Presotto & Dolag, MNRAS 2014 On the role of AGN feedback on the thermal and chemodynamical properties of the hot intracluster medium Planelles, Borgani, Fabjan, Killedar, Murante, Granato, Ragone-Figueroa & Dolag, K, MNRAS 2014 Temperature Structure of the Intracluster Medium from Smoothed-particle Hydrodynamics and Adaptive-mesh Refinement Simulations Rasia et al., ApJ 2014
	Galaxy re-simulation
		Dianoga Galaxies With the aim to understand the formation of galaxies and especially the impact of the gas component and the feedback on the evolution of elliptical galaxies in various cosmological environments, we performed high-resolution zoom simulations of galaxies selected from a large cosmological box (Gpc in size). These simulations are also used to test the parameters of the sub-grid models used in the Magneticum Pathfinder simulations. The image on the left shows a massive galaxy forming inside a void structure at present day. Download Movie 1920x1080 (27MB)
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