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The Agora High-Resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. Ii. Isolated Disk Test

Kim, Ji-Hoon
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Agertz, Oscar
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Teyssier, Romain
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2016
The Astrophysical Journal

Using an isolated Milky Way-mass galaxy simulation, we compare results from nine state-of-the-art gravitohydrodynamics codes widely used in the numerical community. We utilize the infrastructure we have built for the AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. This includes the common disk initial conditions, common physics models (e. g., radiative cooling and UV background by the standardized package GRACKLE) and common analysis toolkit yt, all of which are publicly available. Subgrid physics models such as Jeans pressure floor, star formation, supernova feedback energy, and metal production are carefully constrained across code platforms. With numerical accuracy that resolves the disk scale height, we find that the codes overall agree well with one another in many dimensions including: gas and stellar surface densities, rotation curves, velocity dispersions, density and temperature distribution functions, disk vertical heights, stellar clumps, star formation rates, and Kennicutt-Schmidt relations. Quantities such as velocity dispersions are very robust (agreement within a few tens of percent at all radii) while measures like newly formed stellar clump mass functions show more significant variation (difference by up to a factor of similar to 3). Systematic differences exist, for example, between mesh-based and particle-based codes in the low-density region, and between more diffusive and less diffusive schemes in the high-density tail of the density distribution. Yet intrinsic code differences are generally small compared to the variations in numerical implementations of the common subgrid physics such as supernova feedback. Our experiment reassures that, if adequately designed in accordance with our proposed common parameters, results of a modern high-resolution galaxy formation simulation are more sensitive to input physics than to intrinsic differences in numerical schemes.

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research article
DOI
10.3847/1538-4357/833/2/202
Web of Science ID

WOS:000391169600077

Author(s)
Kim, Ji-Hoon
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Agertz, Oscar
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Teyssier, Romain
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Butler, Michael J.
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Ceverino, Daniel
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Choi, Jun-Hwan
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Feldmann, Robert
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Keller, Ben W.
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Lupi, Alessandro
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Quinn, Thomas
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Corporate authors
AGORA Collaboration
Date Issued

2016

Publisher

Iop Publishing Ltd

Published in
The Astrophysical Journal
Volume

833

Issue

2

Start page

202

Subjects

cosmology: theory

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galaxies: evolution

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galaxies: formation

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galaxies: kinematics and dynamics

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ISM: structure

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methods: numerical

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REVIEWED

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February 17, 2017
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/134587
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