Search Results - "White, Simon D. M"
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The distribution of stellar mass in the low-redshift Universe
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-10-2009)“…We use a complete and uniform sample of almost half a million galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to characterize the distribution of stellar mass in…”
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The diversity and similarity of simulated cold dark matter haloes
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-02-2010)“…We study the mass, velocity dispersion and anisotropy profiles of Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) haloes using a suite of N-body simulations of unprecedented…”
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Star formation and AGN activity in SDSS cluster galaxies
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-05-2010)“…We investigate the recent and current star formation activity of galaxies as function of distance from the cluster centre in a sample of 521 Sloan Digital Sky…”
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Resolving cosmic structure formation with the Millennium-II Simulation
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-09-2009)“…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)…”
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Understanding the halo-mass and galaxy-mass cross-correlation functions
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-07-2008)“…We use the Millennium Simulation (MS) to measure the cross-correlation between halo centres and mass (or equivalently the average density profiles of dark…”
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Discreteness effects in simulations of hot/warm dark matter
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-09-2007)“…In hot/warm dark matter (HDM/WDM) universes the density fluctuations at early times contain very little power below a characteristic wavelength related…”
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Phase-space structure in the local dark matter distribution and its signature in direct detection experiments
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-05-2009)“…We study predictions for dark matter (DM) phase-space structure near the Sun based on high-resolution simulations of six galaxy haloes taken from the Aquarius…”
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How special are brightest group and cluster galaxies?
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-08-2007)“…We use the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to construct a sample of 625 brightest group and cluster galaxies (BCGs) together with control samples of non-BCGs…”
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The haloes of bright satellite galaxies in a warm dark matter universe
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-03-2012)“…High-resolution N-body simulations of galactic cold dark matter haloes indicate that we should expect to find a few satellite galaxies around the Milky Way…”
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Chemical signatures of formation processes in the stellar populations of simulated galaxies
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-02-2012)“…We study the chemical properties of the stellar populations in eight simulations of the formation of Milky Way mass galaxies in a Λ cold dark matter universe…”
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There's no place like home? Statistics of Milky Way-mass dark matter haloes
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-08-2010)“…We present an analysis of the distribution of structural properties for Milky Way-mass haloes in the Millennium-II Simulation (MS-II). This simulation of…”
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Masses for the Local Group and the Milky Way
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-03-2008)“…We use the very large Millennium Simulation of the concordance Λ cold dark matter cosmogony to calibrate the bias and error distribution of Timing Argument…”
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Simulations of the formation, evolution and clustering of galaxies and quasars
Published in Nature (02-06-2005)“…The cold dark matter model has become the leading theoretical picture for the formation of structure in the Universe. This model, together with the theory of…”
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The large-scale structure of the Universe
Published in Nature (27-04-2006)“…Research over the past 25 years has led to the view that the rich tapestry of present-day cosmic structure arose during the first instants of creation, where…”
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Halo masses for optically selected and for radio-loud AGN from clustering and galaxy–galaxy lensing
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-02-2009)“…We compute two-point correlation functions and measure the shear signal due to galaxy–galaxy lensing for 80 000 optically identified and 5700 radio-loud active…”
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A census of metals and baryons in stars in the local Universe
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-02-2008)“…We combine stellar metallicity and stellar mass estimates for a large sample of galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 2 (SDSS DR2)…”
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The low-mass end of the baryonic Tully–Fisher relation
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-01-2017)“…The scaling of disc galaxy rotation velocity with baryonic mass (the 'baryonic Tully-Fisher' relation, BTF) has long confounded galaxy formation models. It is…”
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Effects of supernova feedback on the formation of galaxy discs
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-09-2008)“…We use cosmological simulations in order to study the effects of supernova (SN) feedback on the formation of a Milky Way-type galaxy of virial mass ∼1012h−1M⊙…”
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Dark matter response to galaxy formation
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-08-2010)“…We have resimulated the six galaxy-sized haloes of the Aquarius Project including metal-dependent cooling, star formation and supernova feedback. This allows…”
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Simulations of Cosmic Chemical Enrichment
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-04-2007)“…Using a new numerical model for cosmic chemical evolution, we study the influence of hypernova feedback on the star formation and metal enrichment history of…”
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