Lessons from the Auriga discs: the hunt for the Milky Way's ex-situ disc is not yet over

We characterize the contribution from accreted material to the galactic discs of the Auriga Project, a set of high resolution magnetohydrodynamic cosmological simulations of late-type galaxies performed with the moving-mesh code AREPO. Our goal is to explore whether a significant accreted (or ex-sit...

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Main Authors: Gómez, Facundo A. (Author) , Grand, Robert J. J. (Author) , Bustamente, Sebastian (Author) , Pakmor, Rüdiger (Author) , Springel, Volker (Author)
Format: Article (Journal) Chapter/Article
Language:English
Published: 26 Apr 2017
In: Arxiv

Online Access:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://arxiv.org/abs/1704.08261
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Author Notes:Facundo A. Gómez, Robert J.J. Grand, Antonela Monachesi, Simon D.M. White, Sebastian Bustamante, Federico Marinacci, Rüdiger Pakmor, Christine M. Simpson, Volker Springel, and Carlos S. Frenk
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Lessons from the Auriga discs: the hunt for the Milky Way's ex situ disc is not yet over by Gómez, Facundo A. (Author) , Grand, Robert J. J. (Author) , Pakmor, Rüdiger (Author) , Simpson, Christine M. (Author) , Springel, Volker (Author) , Bustamente, Sebastian (Author) ,


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