Reference papers:

  • Lemson G. and the Virgo Consortium (2006), arXiv:astro-ph/0608019 (public release of the Millennium Simulation database)
  • Springel V., et al. (2005), Nature, 435, 629 (main paper for the Millennium Simulation)
  • Springel V., et al. (2008), MNRAS, 391, 1685 (introductory paper for the Aquarius Project)
  • Springel V., White S. D. M., Tormen G., Kauffmann G. (2001), MNRAS, 328, 726 (introduction of the SUBFIND algorithm)

Papers using data from the Millennium-II Simulation:

Please contact us if you know of any papers that are missing from this list of papers that directly use data from the Millennium-II Simulation.
  1. arXiv:0903.3041 [pdf, other]
    Title: Resolving Cosmic Structure Formation with the Millennium-II Simulation
    Authors: Michael Boylan-Kolchin (1), Volker Springel (1), Simon D. M. White (1), Adrian Jenkins (2), Gerard Lemson (3, 4)
    (1) MPA, (2) Durham, (3) ARI-ZAH, (4) MPE
    Comments: 16 pages, 13 figures; matches version published in MNRAS. Halo catalogs and merger trees, along with movies, images, and additional information, are available at this http URL
    Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 398, 1150 (2009)
  2. arXiv:0908.2428 [ps, pdf, other]
    Title: Extragalactic gamma-ray background radiation from dark matter annihilation
    Comments: 21 pages, 16 figures, submitted to MNRAS
  3. arXiv:0909.4305 [ps, pdf, other]
    Title: How do galaxies populate Dark Matter halos?
    Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures, submitted to MNRAS
  4. arXiv:0911.4484 [pdf, other]
    Title: There's no place like home? Statistics of Milky Way-mass dark matter halos
    Comments: 18 pages, 15 figures; submitted to MNRAS
  5. arXiv:0912.0013 [ps, pdf, other]
    Title: The impact of environment on the dynamical structure of satellite systems
    Authors: Andreas Faltenbacher (UWC)
    Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS
  6. arXiv:1001.2304 [pdf, other]
    Title: The Merger Rates and Mass Assembly Histories of Dark Matter Haloes in the Two Millennium Simulations
    Authors: Onsi Fakhouri (Berkeley), Chung-Pei Ma (Berkeley), Michael Boylan-Kolchin (MPA)
    Comments: 12 pages, 9 figures, submitted to MNRAS
  7. arXiv:1001.3307 [ps, pdf, other]
    Title: Mapping extragalactic dark matter structures through gamma-rays
    Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures, 2009 Fermi Symposium, eConf Proceedings C091122
  8. arXiv:1003.0671 [pdf, ps, other]
    Title: What is the Matter with Dwarf Galaxies?
    Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, submitted to MNRAS
  9. arXiv:1003.3021 [ps, pdf, other]
    Title: A semi-analytic model comparison - gas cooling and galaxy mergers
    Comments: 21 pages, 14 figures, submitted to MNRAS
  10. arXiv:1004.1302 [pdf, other]
    Title: High-performance astrophysical visualization using Splotch
    Comments: 10 pages, accepted for publication at ICCS 2010 conference
  11. arXiv:1005.4058 [pdf, ps, other]
    Title: The growth of dark matter halos: evidence for significant smooth accretion
    Comments: 11 pages, 9 figures. Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal, revised version after referee's comments
  12. arXiv:1006.0106 [pdf, ps, other]
    Title: From dwarf spheroidals to cDs: Simulating the galaxy population in a LCDM cosmology
    Comments: 33 pages, 24 figures. Submitted to MNRAS. The full galaxy catalogues for these models at all redshifts and for the Millennium and Millennium-II simulations will be made available at this http URL as soon as this paper is accepted for publication
  13. arXiv:1006.2882 [pdf, ps, other]
    Title: The statistics of the subhalo abundance of dark matter haloes
    Comments: 7 pages. Submitted to MNRAS
  14. arXiv:1008.0857 [pdf, ps, other]
    Title: A Large Number of z > 6 Galaxies around a QSO at z = 6.43: Evidence for a Protocluster?
    Authors: Yousuke Utsumi (1, 2), Tomotsugu Goto (3, 4), Nobunari Kashikawa, Satoshi Miyazaki, Yutaka Komiyama (1, 2), Hisanori Furusawa (2), Roderik Overzier (5) ((1) The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (2) National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (3) Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii (4) Subaru Telescope (5) Max-Planck Institute für Astrophysik )
    Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ. 11 pages, 8 figures
  15. arXiv:1010.4797 [pdf, other]
    Title: Dynamics of the Magellanic Clouds in a LCDM Universe
    Comments: submitted to MNRAS; 14 pages, 13 figures
  16. arXiv:1102.0002 [pdf, ps, other]
    Title: The Density and Pseudo-Phase-Space Density Profiles of CDM halos
    Comments: 9 pages, 7 figures, submitted to MNRAS
  17. arXiv:1103.0007 [pdf, other]
    Title: Too big to fail? The puzzling darkness of massive Milky Way subhalos
    Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures; submitted to MNRAS Letters
  18. arXiv:1103.0776 [pdf, ps, other]
    Title: The cosmic X-ray and gamma-ray background from dark matter annihilation
    Authors: Jesus Zavala (1), Mark Vogelsberger (2), Tracy R. Slatyer (3), Abraham Loeb (2), Volker Springel (4) ((1) MPA, (2) Harvard/CfA, (3) IAS, (4) HITS)
    Comments: 16 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Physical Review D
  19. arXiv:1103.1875 [pdf, other]
    Title: Small-Scale Structure in the SDSS and LCDM: Isolated L* Galaxies with Bright Satellites
    Comments: 14 pages, 11 figures; submitted to ApJ
  20. arXiv:1104.5130 [pdf, ps, other]
    Title: Halo concentrations in the standard LCDM cosmology
    Comments: Submitted to MNRAS
  21. arXiv:1105.0674 [pdf, ps, other]
    Title: Dwarf galaxy populations in present-day galaxy clusters: I. Abundances and red fractions
    Comments: 20 pages, 10 figures. Submitted to MNRAS. Comments welcome
  22. arXiv:1105.2293 [pdf, ps, other]
    Title: The Effects of Patchy Reionization on Satellite Galaxies of the Milky Way
    Authors: Ragnhild Lunnan (1), Mark Vogelsberger (1), Anna Frebel (1), Lars Hernquist (1), Adam Lidz (2), Michael Boylan-Kolchin (3) ((1) Harvard/CfA, (2) UPenn, (3) UC Irvine)
    Comments: 11 pages, 9 figures, submitted to ApJ
  23. arXiv:1105.3880 [pdf, ps, other]
    Title: Autocorrelations of stellar light and mass at z~0 and ~1: From SDSS to DEEP2
    Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures, submitted for publication in Monthly Notices
  24. arXiv:1107.2648 [pdf, ps, other]
    Title: Predicting the Merger Fraction of Lyman alpha Emitters from Redshift z~3 to z~7
    Authors: Vithal Tilvi, Evan Scannapieco, Sangeeta Malhotra, James E. Rhoads (School of Earth & Space Exploration, Arizona State University)
    Comments: Accepted in MNRAS
  25. arXiv:1107.2942 [pdf, ps, other]
    Title: Adaptive gravitational softening in GADGET
    Comments: 15 pages, 21 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
  26. arXiv:1107.3145 [pdf, ps, other]
    Title: The relation between metallicity, stellar mass and star formation in galaxies: an analysis of observational and model data
    Comments: 18 pages, 18 figures, 2 tables. Submitted to MNRAS
  27. arXiv:1107.4419 [pdf, ps, other]
    Title: A modified star formation law as a solution to open problems in galaxy evolution
    Comments: 14 pages, 12 figures, submitted to MNRAS
  28. arXiv:1109.2484 [pdf, other]
    Title: Interpreting supernovae observations in a lumpy universe
    Comments: 17 pages and 3 figures
  29. arXiv:1110.0324 [pdf, ps, other]
    Title: Dark Matter implications of the Fermi-LAT measurement of anisotropies in the diffuse gamma-ray background: status report
    Authors: Mattia Fornasa (1,2), Jesus Zavala (3), Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde (4), Francisco Prada (1), Mark Vogelsberger (5) ((1) Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia IAA-CSIC, (2) MultiDark fellow, (3) Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Waterloo, (4) KIPAC - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, (5) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
    Comments: Proceeding for the RICAP2011 conference
  30. arXiv:1110.1185 [pdf, ps, other]
    Title: On the Effects of Line-of-Sight Structures on Lensing Flux-ratio Anomalies in a LCDM Universe
    Comments: 16 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS, comments are welcome
  31. arXiv:1110.4106 [pdf, ps, other]
    Title: The initial mass spectrum of old globular clusters in dwarf galaxies
    Authors: J. M. Diederik Kruijssen (MPA Garching), Andrew P. Cooper (MPA Garching)
    Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication by MNRAS
  32. arXiv:1110.4888 [pdf, ps, other]
    Title: The effects of alignment and ellipticity on the clustering of galaxies
    Authors: Marcel P. van Daalen (1 and 2), Raul E. Angulo (1), Simon D. M. White (1) ((1) Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (2) Leiden Observatory, Leiden University)
    Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to MNRAS Letters
  33. arXiv:1111.2048 [pdf, other]
    Title: The Milky Way's bright satellites as an apparent failure of LCDM
    Comments: 17 pages, 10 figures; submitted to MNRAS
  34. arXiv:1111.5616 [pdf, other]
    Title: The Shapes and Alignments of Dark Matter Halos
    Comments: 44 pages, 21 figures, submitted to JCAP