Using LCDM to Understand Galaxy Evolution
Charlie Conroy
Princeton
March 3, 2008, 4PM, LPL 308
With the success of 'concordance' Lambda-CDM cosmology, the time has
come to put the LCDM paradigm to work toward understanding and
explaining the observed properties and spatial distribution of
galaxies over cosmological timescales. In this talk I will describe a
simple framework for connecting observed galaxies to dark matter halos
at a variety of epochs. These galaxy-halo connections, coupled to
N-body simulations of LCDM, allow us to connect observed galaxies at
one epoch with observed galaxies at a later epoch. This approach
entails a number of novel conclusions that will be highlighted in the
talk.
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