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Title: Zooming by in the CARPoolGP Lane: New CAMELS-TNG Simulations of Zoomed-in Massive Halos
Abstract Galaxy formation models within cosmological hydrodynamical simulations contain numerous parameters with nontrivial influences over the resulting properties of simulated cosmic structures and galaxy populations. It is computationally challenging to sample these high dimensional parameter spaces with simulations, in particular for halos in the high-mass end of the mass function. In this work, we develop a novel sampling and reduced variance regression method,CARPoolGP, which leverages built-in correlations between samples in different locations of high dimensional parameter spaces to provide an efficient way to explore parameter space and generate low-variance emulations of summary statistics. We use this method to extend the Cosmology and Astrophysics with machinE Learning Simulations to include a set of 768 zoom-in simulations of halos in the mass range of 1013–1014.5M⊙h−1that span a 28-dimensional parameter space in the IllustrisTNG model. With these simulations and the CARPoolGP emulation method, we explore parameter trends in the ComptonY–M, black hole mass–halo mass, and metallicity–mass relations, as well as thermodynamic profiles and quenched fractions of satellite galaxies. We use these emulations to provide a physical picture of the complex interplay between supernova and active galactic nuclei feedback. We then use emulations of theY–Mrelation of massive halos to perform Fisher forecasts on astrophysical parameters for future Sunyaev–Zeldovich observations and find a significant improvement in forecasted constraints. We publicly release both the simulation suite and CARPoolGP software package.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2108678 2108944 2307419
PAR ID:
10524237
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
OIP Science
Date Published:
Journal Name:
The Astrophysical Journal
Volume:
968
Issue:
1
ISSN:
0004-637X
Page Range / eLocation ID:
11
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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