Welcome to the BAHAMAS project

(FYI - BAHAMAS stands for BAryons and HAloes of MAssive Systems)


What is the BAHAMAS project?
BAHAMAS is a first attempt to do large-scale structure (LSS) cosmology using self-consistent full cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. Such simulations simultaneously follow all of the important matter components and allow us to accurately address the main uncertainty in the theoretical modelling of LSS, which is astrophysical effects (such as feedback) associated with the baryonic component.

A lay person's description of the project can be found in an article put together by LJMU's media team.

The initial BAHAMAS paper, which describes in detail our feedback modelling strategy, is McCarthy et al. (2017).

With a viable model for astrophysical effects, we are now gearing up to explore variations in cosmology. Both in the context of the standard model (LCDM), but also plausible extensions of LCDM, including massive neutrino cosmologies, time-variable dark energy models, and modified gravity models.

Recently, we posted our initial results on constraints on the summed mass of neutrinos in McCarthy et al. (2018). A popular science article about our results can be found in The Conversation.





BAHAMAS team

LJMU groupLeiden group
Ian McCarthy (PI, staff)
Andreea Font (staff)
Juliana Kwan (postdoc)
Jaime Salcido (postdoc)
Victoria Yankelevich (postdoc)
Violeta Gonzalez-Perez (postdoc)
Simon Pfeifer (PhD student)
Alberto Acuto (PhD student)
Sam Stafford (PhD student)
Shaun Brown (PhD student) 		Joop Schaye (staff)
Mathieu Schaller (postdoc)
Marcel van Daalen (postdoc)
Stijn Debackere (PhD student)

Collaborators:
Simeon Bird, UC Riverside
Scott Kay, Manchester
David Barnes, MIT
Ludovic van Waerbeke, UBC
Alex Mead, UBC
Joachim Harnois-Deraps, Edinburgh
Tilman Troster, Edinburgh
Hideki Tanimura, Orsay
Amandine Le Brun, CEA Saclay
Gus Evrard, Michigan
Arya Farahi, Michigan
Andrew Robertson, Durham
Baojiu Li, Durham
David Harvey, EPFL



PUBLIC SIMULATION DATA

Simulated maps from McCarthy+2018:
  • thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect maps
  • galaxy weak lensing convergence and shear maps
  • CMB weak lensing convergence maps (appropriate for cross-correlations with other "low-z" maps only)
  • Friends-of-friends halo catalogs (lightcone data to match maps)
  • Galaxy (subfind) catalogs (lightcone data to match maps)

    The above maps are stored in FITS files. They all have the same dimensions: 5 deg x 5 deg with 10 arcsec pixels (1800x1800 pixels) and are integrated back to z=3. There are 25 maps for each simulation, derived from 25 quasi-independent light cones. Particles are mapped to a grid using a simple 'nearest grid point' method. See McCarthy et al. 2018 for details of the map-making process.

    For galaxy weak lensing maps, the array stored in the FITS files is a 3x1800x1800 array, where [0,*,*] corresponds to the convergence map ('kappa'), [1,*,*] corresponds to the first component of the reduced shear ('g1'), and [2,*,*] corresponds to the second component of the reduced shear ('g2'). Lensing maps for the CFHTLens revisited (Joudaki+2017) and KiDS 450 (Hildebrandt+2017) analyses are provided and constructed using the source redshift distributions obtained from the CFHTLenS and KiDS websites. If you would like BAHAMAS weak lensing maps for an alternative source redshift distribution, please contact Ian McCarthy.

    Full particle data for a subset of runs:
  • Snapshots, subfind catalogs, and subfind particledata



    BAHAMAS PUBLICATIONS

  • Weak lensing minima and peaks: Cosmological constraints and the impact of baryons
    Coulton, W. R., Liu, J., McCarthy, I. G., Osato, K., 2019, MNRAS, submitted

  • Weak lensing Analysis of X-ray-selected XXL Galaxy Groups and Clusters with Subaru HSC Data
    Umetsu, K., et al., 2019, ApJ, submitted

  • The BAHAMAS project: Effects of a running scalar spectral index on large-scale structure
    Stafford, S. G., McCarthy, I. G., Crain, R. A., Salcido, J., Schaye, J., Font, A. S., Kwan, J., Pfeifer, S. 2019, MNRAS, submitted

  • Environment from cross-correlations: connecting hot gas and the quenching of galaxies
    Kukstas, E., McCarthy, I. G., Baldry, I. K., Font, A. S., 2019, MNRAS, submitted

  • Exploring the effects of galaxy formation on matter clustering through a library of simulation power spectra
    van Daalen, M. P., McCarthy, I. G., Schaye, J. 2019, MNRAS, submitted

  • The impact of baryonic physics and massive neutrinos on weak lensing peak statistics
    Fong, M., Choi, M., Catlett, V., Lee, B., Peel, A., Bowyer, R., King, L., McCarthy, I. G. 2019, MNRAS, 488, 3340

  • Observable tests of self-interacting dark matter in glaxy clusters: BCG wobbles in a constant density core
    Harvey, D., Robertson, A., Massey, R., McCarthy, I. G., 2019, MNRAS, 488, 1572

  • Observable tests of self-interacting dark matter in galaxy clusters: cosmological simulations with SIDM and baryons
    Robertson, A., Harvey, D., Massey, R., Eke, V., McCarthy, I. G., Jauzac, M., Li, B., Schaye, J., 2019, MNRAS, 488, 3646

  • Painting with baryons: augmenting N-body simulations with gas using deep generative models
    • Troster, T., Ferguson, C., Harnois-Deraps, J., McCarthy, I. G., 2019, MNRAS, 487, L24

  • A search for warm/hot gas filaments between pairs of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies
    Tanimura, H., Hinshaw, G., McCarthy, I. G., et al. 2019, MNRAS, 483, 223

  • Multi-wavelength scaling relations in galaxy groups: a detailed comparison of GAMA and KiDS observations to BAHAMAS simulations
    Jakobs, A., Viola, M., McCarthy, I. G., et al. 2018, MNRAS, 480, 3338

  • Localized massive halo properties in BAHAMAS and MACSIS simulations: scalings, log-normality, and covariance
    Farahi, A., Evrard, A. E., McCarthy, I. G., Barnes, D. J., Kay, S. T., 2018, MNRAS, 478, 2618

  • The BAHAMAS project: the CMB--large-scale structure tension and the roles of massive neutrinos and galaxy formation
    McCarthy, I. G., Bird, S., Schaye, J., Harnois-Deraps, J., Font, A. S., van Waerbeke, L., 2018, MNRAS, 476, 2999

  • A detection of wobbling brightest cluster galaxies within massive galaxy clusters
    Harvey, D., Courbin, F., Kneib, J. P., & McCarthy, I. G. 2017, MNRAS, 472, 1972

  • The separate and combined effects of baryon physics and neutrino free streaming on large-scale structure
    Mummery, B. O., McCarthy, I. G., Bird, S., & Schaye, J. 2017, MNRAS, 471, 227

  • The impact of baryons on massive galaxy clusters: halo structure and cluster mass estimates
    Henson, M. A., Barnes, D. J., Kay, S. T., McCarthy, I. G., & Schaye, J. 2017, MNRAS, 465, 3361

  • The redshift evolution of massive galaxy clusters in the MACSIS simulations
    Barnes, D. J., Kay, S. T., Henson, M. A., McCarthy, I. G., Schaye, J., & Jenkins, A. 2017, MNRAS, 465, 213

  • The BAHAMAS project: calibrated hydrodynamical simulations for large-scale structure cosmology
    McCarthy, I. G., Schaye, J., Bird, S., & Le Brun, A. M. C. 2017, MNRAS, 465, 2936

  • Cosmology with velocity dispersion counts: an alternative to measuring cluster halo masses
    Caldwell, C. E., McCarthy, I. G., Baldry, I. K., Collins, C. A., Schaye, J., & Bird, S. 2016, MNRAS, 462, 4117



    Please also check out publications from our previous simulation program, cosmo-OWLS




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