Gregory F. Snyder

TL;DR: The Illustris Project as mentioned in this paper is a series of large-scale hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation, which includes primordial and metal-line cooling with self-shielding corrections, stellar evolution, stellar feedback, gas recycling, chemical enrichment, supermassive black hole growth, and feedback from active galactic nuclei.

TL;DR: A simulation that starts 12 million years after the Big Bang, and traces 13 billion years of cosmic evolution with 12 billion resolution elements in a cube of 106.5 megaparsecs a side yields a reasonable population of ellipticals and spirals, reproduces the observed distribution of galaxies in clusters and characteristics of hydrogen on large scales, and at the same time matches the ‘metal’ and hydrogen content of galaxies on small scales.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the properties of black holes and their host galaxies across cosmic time in the Illustris simulation and find that the black hole mass density for redshifts z = 0-5 and the black holes mass function at 0 predicted by Illustris are in very good agreement with the most recent observational constraints.

TL;DR: The full public release of all data from the Illustris simulation project is presented, including the flagship Illustris-1 run, and a comprehensive, web-based API which allows programmatic access to search and data processing tasks is released.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the formation processes and quantify the assembly histories of compact galaxies in Illustris, a suite of hydrodynamical cosmological simulations encompassing a sufficiently large volume to include rare objects, while simultaneously resolving the internal structure of galaxies.