• DocumentCode
    586490
  • Title

    A case study: Tracking and visualizing the evolution of dark matter halos and groups of satellite halos in cosmology simulations

  • Author

    Takle, Jay ; Silver, Deborah ; Heitmann, Katrin

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    14-19 Oct. 2012
  • Firstpage
    243
  • Lastpage
    244
  • Abstract
    In this poster, we track the evolution of cosmic structures and higher level host structures in cosmological simulation as they interact with each other. The structures found in these simulations are made up of groups of dark matter tracer particles called satellite halos and groups of satellite halos called host halos. We implement a multilevel tracking model to track dark matter tracer particles, satellite halos and host halos to understand their behaviour and show how the different structures are formed over time. We also represent the evolution of halos in the form of merger trees for detailed analysis by cosmologists.
  • Keywords
    astronomy computing; cosmology; dark matter; cosmic structure evolution; cosmological simulation; dark matter halo evolution; dark matter tracer particle tracking; host halos; host structures; merger trees; multilevel tracking model; satellite halos; Computational modeling; Corporate acquisitions; Merging; Physics; Satellites; Silver; Visualization; Group tracking; merger tree; multi-level tracking;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), 2012 IEEE Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Seattle, WA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-4752-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/VAST.2012.6400532
  • Filename
    6400532