Mass Proxy Quality of Halo Properties in IllustrisTNG and FLAMINGO Simulations: II. Galaxies, Stars, and Black Holes

arXiv:2610.10901 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-10-07 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-10-07

Updated: 2026-10-07

Code: https://github.com/illustristng/illustris_python

Terminology

• AGN — 22× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Velocity Dispersion — 19× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN Feedback — 16× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Anti-correlation — 11× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Aperture — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 5× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Consistency — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Abundance — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Kernel Localized Linear Regression — 3× in this paper
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Weak Lensing — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Baryonic Feedback — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Forward modeling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Stellar Feedback — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• CMB-S4 Science Case, Reference Design, and Project Plan
• LoVoCCS. III. Third Generation Pipeline & The Hercules Supercluster
• Assessing subhalo finders in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations
• The Simons Observatory: Instrument Overview
• The FLAMINGO simulations data release
• SOAP: A Python Package for Calculating the Properties of Galaxies and Halos Formed in Cosmological Simulations
• Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and X-ray scaling relations of galaxies, groups and clusters in the IllustrisTNG simulations
• The FLAMINGO project: cosmological hydrodynamical simulations for large-scale structure and galaxy cluster surveys
• CMB-HD: An Ultra-Deep, High-Resolution Millimeter-Wave Survey Over Half the Sky

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