Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Besancon (France)
Description:
The model of stellar population synthesis is used to elaborate a global view of the Galaxy including dynamical and evolutionary aspects. Scenarii for the formation and evolution produces theoretical distribution functions which are directly compared with survey observations of different types (photometry, kinematics, abundance distributions) The kinematical and dynamical point of view is linked to an evolution scheme through a key parameter, the stellar ages. The age distribution of stars in the solar neighbourhood is derived from a model of galactic evolution. The stellar populations of the galactic disc are selfconsistently constrained by the Boltzmann and Poisson equations through the potential of the mass model. Observational predictions are thus directly derived from an overall description of galactic structure and evolution.
The model can be used for on-line simulations of line of sights. It produces either star counts or catalogues of stars with photometric data in different systems (Johnson-Cousins, Megacam...) and kinematics (proper motions, radial velocities) according to model hypothesis.
The LCA is dedicated to advancing the state-of-the-art of astrophysical simulation through the development and dissemination of community codes, and through large-scale simulations of astrophysical and cosmological systems. Our community codes include the ZEUS family of astrophysical MHD codes, and ENZO, an adaptive mesh hydrodynamic cosmological code. We also offer a new, elliptic equation, multigrid solver MGMPI. Members and collaborators of the LCA apply ZEUS and ENZO to a wide variety of fluid dynamical probelms in astrophysics and cosmology.
40 fully hydrodynamical numerical simulations of the intergalactic gas that gives rise to the Ly-alpha forest. The available data includes simulated spectra, fields such as temperature and density, and parameter files for the simulation. Links are provided to the simulation software (Enzo). This data is made available as a web supplement to astro-ph/0412557, "A Concordance Model of the Lyman- Alpha Forest at z =1.95".