Bibcode
Sembolini, F.; Yepes, Gustavo; Pearce, Frazer R.; Knebe, Alexander; Kay, Scott T.; Power, Chris; Cui, Weiguang; Beck, Alexander M.; Borgani, Stefano; Dalla Vecchia, C.; Davé, Romeel; Elahi, Pascal Jahan; February, Sean; Huang, Shuiyao; Hobbs, Alex; Katz, Neal; Lau, Erwin; McCarthy, Ian G.; Murante, Guiseppe; Nagai, Daisuke; Nelson, Kaylea; Newton, Richard D. A.; Perret, Valentin; Puchwein, Ewald; Read, Justin I.; Saro, Alexandro; Schaye, Joop; Teyssier, Romain; Thacker, Robert J.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 457, Issue 4, p.4063-4080
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2016
Citations
75
Refereed citations
73
Description
We have simulated the formation of a galaxy cluster in a Λ cold
dark matter universe using 13 different codes modelling only gravity and
non-radiative hydrodynamics (RAMSES, ART, AREPO, HYDRA and nine
incarnations of GADGET). This range of codes includes particle-based,
moving and fixed mesh codes as well as both Eulerian and Lagrangian
fluid schemes. The various GADGET implementations span classic and
modern smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) schemes. The goal of this
comparison is to assess the reliability of cosmological hydrodynamical
simulations of clusters in the simplest astrophysically relevant case,
that in which the gas is assumed to be non-radiative. We compare images
of the cluster at z = 0, global properties such as mass and radial
profiles of various dynamical and thermodynamical quantities. The
underlying gravitational framework can be aligned very accurately for
all the codes allowing a detailed investigation of the differences that
develop due to the various gas physics implementations employed. As
expected, the mesh-based codes RAMSES, ART and AREPO form extended
entropy cores in the gas with rising central gas temperatures. Those
codes employing classic SPH schemes show falling entropy profiles all
the way into the very centre with correspondingly rising density
profiles and central temperature inversions. We show that methods with
modern SPH schemes that allow entropy mixing span the range between
these two extremes and the latest SPH variants produce gas entropy
profiles that are essentially indistinguishable from those obtained with
grid-based methods.