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Shark: introducing an open source, free and flexible semi-analytic model of galaxy formation
Authors
Pascal J. Elahi
Claudia del P. Lagos
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Peter D. Mitchell
Danail Obreschkow
Chris Power
Aaron S. G. Robotham
Rodrigo J. Tobar
Publication date
1 January 2018
Publisher
'Oxford University Press (OUP)'
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Abstract
We present a new, open source, free semi-analytic model (SAM) of galaxy formation, Shark, designed to be highly flexible and modular, allowing easy exploration of different physical processes and ways of modelling them. We introduce the philosophy behind Shark and provide an overview of the physical processes included in the model. Shark is written in C++11 and has been parallelized with OpenMP. In the released version (v1.1), we implement several different models for gas cooling, active galactic nuclei, stellar and photo-ionisation feedback, and star formation (SF). We demonstrate the basic performance of Shark using the Planck15 cosmology SURFS simulations, by comparing against a large set of observations, including: the stellar mass function (SMF) and stellar-halo mass relation at z=0-4; the cosmic evolution of the star formation rate density (SFRD), stellar mass, atomic and molecular hydrogen; local gas scaling relations; and structural galaxy properties, finding excellent agreement. Significant improvements over previous SAMs are seen in the mass-size relation for disks/bulges, the gas-stellar mass and stellar mass-metallicity relations. To illustrate the power of Shark in exploring the systematic effects of the galaxy formation modelling, we quantify how the scatter of the SF main sequence and the gas scaling relations changes with the adopted SF law, and the effect of the starbursts H
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