Presentation 1 : Oral
Hierachical Galaxy Formation: introducing the GalICS Project
B. Guiderdoni and the GalICS collaboration
The GalICS project (for Galaxies in Cosmological Simulations) uses the
outputs of large, cosmological N-body simulations to describe the
gravitational collapse of dark matter (DM), and semi-analytical recipes
to model the fate of baryons in the potential wells of DM halos. The
multi-wavelength statistical properties of galaxies are predicted in
the halo merging history trees, and compared to observational samples.
The Mock Map Facility (MoMaF) transforms synthetic catalogs into
realistic images of deep fields that can be used to prepare
observational strategies with forthcoming instruments.