Some Movies of the MPA Galaxy Formation Group

Caution!

Galaxy Formation

• Galaxies form within pancakes (2.0 Mbytes)
• Zoom into some haloes (1.7 Mbytes)
• Evolution of a halo with a quiescent merging history (2.3 Mbytes)
• Evolution of a halo with a violent merging history (2.9 Mbytes)

Large Scale Structure

• Flying through a 16777216 particle N-body CDM+Lambda simulation (337 kbytes)
• Time evolution of a 16777216 particle pure CDM simulation (448 kbytes)
• Zoom into a 16777216 particle tauCDM simulation with its incredible resolution! (515k)

Supernova Remnants

All these simulations show the evolution of a supernova with a explosion energy of 1e51 erg running into the interstellar medium with a number density of 1 particle/cm^3
• Here are the 1D simulations:
  
  
  • Density (2.0M)
  • Velocity (2.0M)
  • Pressure (1.7M)
  • Temperature (1.8M)
  
  
• And here are 2D simulations:
  
  
  • This simulation assumes that the ejecta as well as the interstellar medium are of solar abundance. (This simulation corresponds to the 1D simulations.)
    Density (1.5M)
    Mixing of ejecta/ISM (1.0M)
    
    
  • Now with an ejecta of solar abundance but an ISM of primordial abundance.
    Density (1.4M)
    Mixing of ejecta/ISM (1.2M)
    
    
  • This is a SN running into a stellar wind-driven bubble of the progenitor star.
    Density (1.4M)
    Mixing of ejecta/ISM (1.2M)



Matthias Steinmetz (msteinmetz@mpa-garching.mpg.de)

Jörg Colberg (jgc@mpa-garching.mpg.de)