BigMDPL (bigmdpl)
Description
The Big MultiDark Planck simulation belongs to the series of MultiDark simulations with Planck cosmology. It is kin to the MDPL2 simulation, with the same cosmological parameters and particle number, but a larger box size.
Details
| Box size | 2.5 Gpc/h | side length of the cosmological cube |
| Number of particles | 38403 | total number of dark matter particles |
| Mass resolution | 2.359*1010 Msun/h | mass of one dark matter particle |
| Force resolution | 30 kpc/h (high z) – 10 kpc/h (low-z) | physical force resolution |
| Initial redshift | 100 | redshift at which the simulation started |
| Cosmology | ||
| h | 0.6777 | Hubble parameter |
| ΩΛ | 0.692885 | density parameter for dark energy |
| Ωm | 0.307115 | density parameter for matter (dark matter+baryons) |
| Ωb | 0.048206 | density parameter for baryonic matter |
| n | 0.96 | normalization of the Power spectrum |
| σ8 | 0.8228 | amplitude of mass density fluctuation in 8 Mpc/h sphere (at redshift z=0) |
| Other constants | ||
| G | 6.67428 * 10-8 cm3 g-1 s-2 | Gravitational constant (Rev. Mod. Phys. 80 (2008) 633-730) |
| 1 Mpc | 30.85677 * 1023 cm | 1 Mpc in cm |
| Msun | 1.98892 ± 0.00025 1033 g | Solar mass (Physics Reports 281 (1997) 309) |
Attribution
In order to properly acknowledge our efforts, we request the following paragraph to be included in the "Acknowledgements" section of any publication which makes use of the simulation data above via the CosmoSim or MultiDark database:
Acknowledgements – Database
The CosmoSim database used in this paper is a service by the Leibniz-Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP). The MultiDark database was developed in cooperation with the Spanish MultiDark Consolider Project CSD2009-00064.
Acknowledgements – Simulations
The authors gratefully acknowledge the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing e.V. (www.gauss-centre.eu) and the Partnership for Advanced Supercomputing in Europe (PRACE, www.prace-ri.eu) for funding the MultiDark simulation project by providing computing time on the GCS Supercomputer SuperMUC at Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ, www.lrz.de). The Bolshoi simulations have been performed within the Bolshoi project of the University of California High-Performance AstroComputing Center (UC-HiPACC) and were run at the NASA Ames Research Center.
More information can be found on the credit page.
Tables
| Table | Description |
|---|---|
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Rockstar bigmdpl.rockstar |
ROCKSTAR halo catalogue, includes halo properties for all available snapshots |
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Rockstar_z0 bigmdpl.rockstar_z0 |
ROCKSTAR halo catalogue, for z=0 only (snapnum=79) |
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Redshifts bigmdpl.redshifts |
Overview on snapshot numbers ( |