TY - JOUR

T1 - sigame v3

T2 - Gas Fragmentation in Postprocessing of Cosmological Simulations for More Accurate Infrared Line Emission Modeling

AU - Olsen, Karen Pardos

AU - Burkhart, Blakesley

AU - Mac Low, Mordecai-Mark

AU - Tress, Robin G.

AU - Greve, Thomas R.

AU - Vizgan, David

AU - Motka, Jay

AU - Borrow, Josh

AU - Popping, Gergoe

AU - Dave, Romeel

AU - Smith, Rowan J.

AU - Narayanan, Desika

PY - 2021/11/23

Y1 - 2021/11/23

N2 - We present an update to the framework called Simulator of Galaxy Millimeter/submillimeter Emission (sigame). sigame derives line emission in the far-infrared (FIR) for galaxies in particle-based cosmological hydrodynamics simulations by applying radiative transfer and physics recipes via a postprocessing step after completion of the simulation. In this version, a new technique is developed to model higher gas densities by parameterizing the probability distribution function (PDF) of the gas density in higher-resolution simulations run with the pseudo-Lagrangian, Voronoi mesh code arepo. The parameterized PDFs are used as a look-up table, and reach higher densities than in previous work. sigame v3 is tested on redshift z = 0 galaxies drawn from the simba cosmological simulation for eight FIR emission lines tracing vastly different phases of the interstellar medium. This version of sigame includes dust radiative transfer with Skirt and high-resolution photoionization models with Cloudy, the latter sampled according to the density PDF of the arepo simulations to augment the densities in the cosmological simulation. The quartile distributions of the predicted line luminosities overlap with the observed range for nearby galaxies of similar star formation rate (SFR) for all but two emission lines: [O i]63 and CO(3-2), which are overestimated by median factors of 1.3 and 1.0 dex, respectively, compared to the observed line-SFR relation of mixed-type galaxies. We attribute the remaining disagreement with observations to the lack of precise attenuation of the interstellar light on sub-grid scales (less than or similar to 200 pc) and differences in sample selection.

AB - We present an update to the framework called Simulator of Galaxy Millimeter/submillimeter Emission (sigame). sigame derives line emission in the far-infrared (FIR) for galaxies in particle-based cosmological hydrodynamics simulations by applying radiative transfer and physics recipes via a postprocessing step after completion of the simulation. In this version, a new technique is developed to model higher gas densities by parameterizing the probability distribution function (PDF) of the gas density in higher-resolution simulations run with the pseudo-Lagrangian, Voronoi mesh code arepo. The parameterized PDFs are used as a look-up table, and reach higher densities than in previous work. sigame v3 is tested on redshift z = 0 galaxies drawn from the simba cosmological simulation for eight FIR emission lines tracing vastly different phases of the interstellar medium. This version of sigame includes dust radiative transfer with Skirt and high-resolution photoionization models with Cloudy, the latter sampled according to the density PDF of the arepo simulations to augment the densities in the cosmological simulation. The quartile distributions of the predicted line luminosities overlap with the observed range for nearby galaxies of similar star formation rate (SFR) for all but two emission lines: [O i]63 and CO(3-2), which are overestimated by median factors of 1.3 and 1.0 dex, respectively, compared to the observed line-SFR relation of mixed-type galaxies. We attribute the remaining disagreement with observations to the lack of precise attenuation of the interstellar light on sub-grid scales (less than or similar to 200 pc) and differences in sample selection.

KW - RADIATION-HYDRODYNAMICS SIMULATION

KW - PROBABILITY-DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS

KW - GALAXY FORMATION

KW - STAR-FORMATION

KW - CO EMISSION

KW - LUMINOSITY FUNCTION

KW - INTERSTELLAR-MEDIUM

KW - ABSORPTION-LINE

KW - NEARBY GALAXIES

KW - BLACK-HOLE

U2 - 10.3847/1538-4357/ac20d4

DO - 10.3847/1538-4357/ac20d4

M3 - Journal article

VL - 922

JO - Astrophysical Journal

JF - Astrophysical Journal

SN - 0004-637X

IS - 1

M1 - 88

ER -