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Title:
Resolving cosmic structure formation with the Millennium-II Simulation
Authors:
Boylan-Kolchin, Michael; Springel, Volker; White, Simon D. M.; Jenkins, Adrian; Lemson, Gerard
Affiliation:
AA(Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany), AB(Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany), AC(Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany), AD(Institute for Computational Cosmology, Department of Physics, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE), AE(Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg, Moenchhofstr. 12-14, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbach-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany)
Publication:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 398, Issue 3, pp. 1150-1164. (MNRAS Homepage)
Publication Date:
09/2009
Origin:
MNRAS
MNRAS Keywords:
methods: N-body simulations , galaxies: haloes , cosmology: theory
DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15191.x
Bibliographic Code:
2009MNRAS.398.1150B

Abstract

We present the Millennium-II Simulation (MS-II), a very large N-body simulation of dark matter evolution in the concordance Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) cosmology. The MS-II assumes the same cosmological parameters and uses the same particle number and output data structure as the original Millennium Simulation (MS), but was carried out in a periodic cube one-fifth the size (100h-1Mpc) with five times better spatial resolution (a Plummer equivalent softening of 1.0h-1kpc) and with 125 times better mass resolution (a particle mass of 6.9 × 106h-1Msolar). By comparing results at MS and MS-II resolution, we demonstrate excellent convergence in dark matter statistics such as the halo mass function, the subhalo abundance distribution, the mass dependence of halo formation times, the linear and non-linear autocorrelations and power spectra, and halo assembly bias. Together, the two simulations provide precise results for such statistics over an unprecedented range of scales, from haloes similar to those hosting Local Group dwarf spheroidal galaxies to haloes corresponding to the richest galaxy clusters. The `Milky Way' haloes of the Aquarius Project were selected from a lower resolution version of the MS-II and were then resimulated at much higher resolution. As a result, they are present in the MS-II along with thousands of other similar mass haloes. A comparison of their assembly histories in the MS-II and in resimulations of 1000 times better resolution shows detailed agreement over a factor of 100 in mass growth. We publicly release halo catalogues and assembly trees for the MS-II in the same format within the same archive as those already released for the MS.
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