The VIRGO project: Cosmological N-body Simulations


We have carried out the following 3 sets of intermediate-size (not quite appropriate, as they are still large enough!) N-body simulations:
The page here gives you some information of our work.
Pictures and movies here.




VIRGO simulations

introduction/ sim. parameters/ reference/ data-download

Introduction


Simulation parameters


Standard CDM
Boxsize 239.5 Mpc/h2563 particles
OMEGA = 1.0LAMBDA = 0.0
H0 = 50 km/(Mpc sec)Sigma8 = 0.51
Mass per particle 22.7 1010M_sun/h 


Lambda CDM
Boxsize 239.5 Mpc/h 2563 particles
OMEGA = 0.3LAMBDA = 0.7
H0 = 70 km/(Mpc sec)Sigma8 = 0.9
Mass per particle 6.86 1010M_sun/h 


Open CDM
Boxsize 239.5 Mpc/h 2563 particles
OMEGA = 0.3LAMBDA = 0.0
H0 = 70 km/(Mpc sec)Sigma8 = 0.85
Mass per particle 6.86 1010M_sun/h 


tau CDM
Boxsize 239.5 Mpc/h2563 particles
OMEGA = 1.0LAMBDA = 0.0
H0 = 50 km/(Mpc sec)Sigma8 = 0.51
Mass per particle 22.7 1010M_sun/h 



Suitable references
(Virgo-simulation selected publications):
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Last modified: Wed Oct 31 13:26:23 MET 2001 by Virgo Administrator