Shock Waves in and around Protoclusters at Cosmic Noon in the Horizon Run 5 Simulation

  • Ji, Hannah (Department of Physics, University of Seoul) ;
  • Hong, Sungwook E. (Natural Science Research Institute, University of Seoul) ;
  • Koo, Hyeonmo (Department of Physics, University of Seoul)
  • Published : 2019.10.14

Abstract

We study cosmological shock waves in and around protoclusters at cosmic noon in the Horizon Run 5 Simulation (HR5), one of the world's largest hydrodynamic cosmological simulations. We select the local peaks of X-ray luminosity at z=2.5-3 in the HR5 lightcone volume as protocluster candidates. We find shock waves with Ms > 1.3 within the virial radii of the HR5 protocluster candidates by applying several shock-finding algorithms based on the Rankine-Hugoniot jump condition. We compare the properties of shock waves from different shock-finding algorithms.

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