The TNG50-SKIRT Atlas: Spatially resolved synthetic galaxies from the ultraviolet to the submillimetre (DR2)
Maarten Baes, Paul Vauterin, Abdurro'uf, Nick Andreadis, Thiago Bueno-Dalpiaz, Sena Bokona Tulu, Peter Camps, Abdissa Tassama Emana, Jacopo Fritz, Andrea Gebek, Anand Utsav Kapoor, Inja Kovačić, Arno Lauwers, Kosei Matsumoto, Karín Menéndez-Delmestre, Aleksandr V. Mosenkov, Angelos Nersesian, Lara Pantoni, Mariana Rivas Sánchez, Waad Saftly, Samir Salim, Marko Stalevski, Qi Zeng
astro-ph.GA
Submitted: 2026-08-03
Comments: 15 pages, accepted for publication in A&A
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
The gist: We present the second data release (DR2) of the TNG50-SKIRT Atlas (TSA), a library of synthetic, spatially resolved galaxy observables.
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Abstract
We present the second data release (DR2) of the TNG50-SKIRT Atlas (TSA), a library of synthetic, spatially resolved galaxy observables. The atlas is constructed by post-processing a stellar-mass-complete (10 9.8 M < M < 10 12 M) sample of 1154 z=0 galaxies from the TNG50 cosmological hydrodynamical simulation with the Monte Carlo radiative transfer code SKIRT. Compared to the first release, TSA DR2 extends the wavelength coverage from the ultraviolet to the submillimetre, including dust emission, and incorporates updated stellar population models together with an improved treatment of dust-enshrouded star-forming regions. The atlas provides spatially resolved spectral energy distributions, broadband images, and physical property maps for multiple viewing orientations, as well as a catalogue of integrated properties enabling direct comparison with unresolved observations. We validate the data products through extensive quality control, including an assessment of Monte Carlo noise, and demonstrate their internal consistency using diagnostic relations between luminosities and star formation rates. TSA DR2 provides a versatile resource for studies of dust attenuation and emission, star formation tracers, galaxy morphology, and multi-wavelength scaling relations across spatial scales. The atlas and associated data products are publicly released and are intended to support a wide range of observationally oriented studies of galaxy evolution.
Sources
- The TNG50-SKIRT Atlas: Multi-wavelength nonparametric galaxy morphology
- The COLIBRE-SKIRT pipeline: Calibration-free dust radiative transfer postprocessing for cosmological simulations
- Predicting ionised gas emission in 3D with SKIRT. I. Framework and validation
- TODDLERS 2.0: Stellar feedback and observables across diverse IMFs, binary populations, and cloud environments
- Galaxy luminosity functions from far-UV to submillimetre at z=0 in the COLIBRE simulations
- Visual analytics for cosmological simulation results
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