Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-12-10
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 320 (2001) 261
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
19 pages, 13 figures, to appear in MNRAS. Significantly extended to explore galaxy progenitor distributions and behaviour of m
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.03966.x
We compare the statistical properties of galaxies found in two different models of hierarchical galaxy formation: the semi-analytic model of Cole et al. and the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of Pearce et al. Using a `stripped-down' version of the semi-analytic model which mimics the resolution of the SPH simulations and excludes physical processes not included in them, we find that the two models produce an ensemble of galaxies with remarkably similar properties, although there are some differences in the gas cooling rates and in the number of galaxies that populate halos of different mass. The full semi-analytic model, which has effectively no resolution limit and includes a treatment of star formation and supernovae feedback, produces somewhat different (but readily understandable) results. Agreement is particularly good for the present-day global fractions of hot gas, cold dense (i.e. galactic) gas and uncollapsed gas, for which the SPH and stripped-down semi-analytic calculations differ by at most 25%. In the most massive halos, the stripped-down semi-analytic model predicts, on the whole, up to 50% less gas in galaxies than is seen in the SPH simulations. The two techniques apportion this cold gas somewhat differently amongst galaxies in a given halo. This difference can be tracked down to the greater cooling rate in massive halos in the SPH simulation compared to the semi-analytic model. (abridged)
Baugh Carlton M.
Benson Andrew J.
Frenk Carlos S.
Jenkins Alejandro
Pearce Frazer R.
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