README.md

Massive Galaxies in HSC vs. Hydrodynamic Simulations

Published paper: Stellar and weak lensing profiles of massive galaxies in the Hyper-Suprime Cam survey and in hydrodynamic simulations (Ardila et al. 2020)

Project goal:

Main Results

HSC

Hydro Simulations

• Illustris
• TNG
• Ponos

Code

Run in hsc_hydro environment

Reference Papers

• Profiles of HSC galaxies: Individual stellar haloes of massive galaxies measured to 100 kpc at 0.3 < z < 0.5 using Hyper Suprime-Cam (Huang et al. 2018)

• Ponos Simulation: Cold Dark Matter Substructures in Early-Type Galaxy Halos (Fiacconi et al. 2016)