Latest News
by Kristin Riebe on July 31, 2015
This page contains some latest news as well as links to articles and the CLUES workshops.
HESTIA project gets computing time
The HESTIA (High-resolution Environmental Simulations of The Immediate Area), project – an effort to simulate a dozen Local groups in a constrained environment using the state-of-the-art AREPO hydrodynamic code, has received a large computing grant from the Leibniz Rechenzentrum (LRZ).The project will be carried out over the next 18 months (May 2017).
CLUES data at www.cosmosim.org
Some of the CLUES data is now publicly available via the CosmoSim database. This includes AHF halo catalogues from the Box 64, WMAP3 resimulations of the Local Group with 40963 particle resolution.
Where are all the dwarfs?
Press release related to the paper of Alejandro Benítez-Llambay et al. in ApJL
CLUES & Art
The CLUES simulation Box 64 – 186592, DM only, with 4096^3 particles, inspired Noam Libeskind and his father to create a stunning chandelier, see Fastcodesign – article or The Guardian. By mapping the dark matter distribution to LEDs it “mimics and reproduces the cosmic light that fills the Universe.”