Thinking Outside of the Box: First Light of the Millennium Run Observatory

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Jan 2012

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, #322.03

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We will introduce the Millennium Run Observatory (MRO), a unique project that is narrowing the gap between cosmological simulations and real observations. Key to this project is a new post-processing method applied to the Millennium Run dark matter simulations and semi-analytic galaxy models that allows us to generate highly realistic multi-wavelength data sets in the observer's frame. Different from most model-data comparisons performed in the literature today, the MRO produces data analogous to real telescope data. These virtual observations can be analyzed using the exact same methods and tools that are typically applied to real data, leading to a much better understanding of both the observations and simulations. We will demonstrate the power of this true "virtual observatory" by analyzing detailed simulated and real data sets probing the evolution of galaxy populations in, e.g., the UDF and the on-going multicycle HST treasury program CANDELS and in galaxy clusters at high redshift.
* This work was supported by Advanced Grant 246797 "GALFORMOD" from the European Research Council.

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