Mind the Gap: from Plasma Kinetics to Cosmological Galaxy Formation

Project Information

PICOGAL

Grant agreement ID: 101019746

DOI

10.3030/101019746

EC signature date 5 May 2021

Start date 1 July 2022

End date 30 June 2027

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 500 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 500 000,00

Coordinated by

LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUR ASTROPHYSIK POTSDAM (AIP)
Germany

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (33)

Anisotropic thermal conduction on a moving mesh for cosmological simulations

Author(s): Rosie Y Talbot, Rüdiger Pakmor, Christoph Pfrommer, Volker Springel, Maria Werhahn, Rebekka Bieri, Freeke van de Voort
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 541, 2025, Page(s) 2493-2512, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf1073

Comparing energy and entropy formulations for cosmic ray hydrodynamics

Author(s): Matthias Weber; Timon Thomas; Christoph Pfrommer
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac3781

The Theory of Resonant Cosmic Ray–driven Instabilities—Growth and Saturation of Single Modes

Author(s): Rouven Lemmerz, Mohamad Shalaby, Christoph Pfrommer, Timon Thomas
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 979, 2025, Page(s) 34, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad8eb3

LYRA. III. The Smallest Reionization Survivors

Author(s): Thales A. Gutcke; Christoph Pfrommer; Greg L. Bryan; Rüdiger Pakmor; Volker Springel; Thorsten Naab
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aca1b4

Comparing the interstellar and circumgalactic origin of gas in the tails of jellyfish galaxies

Author(s): Martin Sparre, Christoph Pfrommer, Ewald Puchwein
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 691, 2024, Page(s) A259, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202450544

Gamma-ray emission from spectrally resolved cosmic rays in galaxies

Author(s): Maria Werhahn; Philipp Girichidis; Christoph Pfrommer; Joseph Whittingham
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2105

Cosmic-Ray-driven Galactic Winds with Resolved Interstellar Medium and Ion-neutral Damping

Author(s): Brandon Sike, Timon Thomas, Mateusz Ruszkowski, Christoph Pfrommer, Matthias Weber
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 987, 2025, Page(s) 204, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adda3d

Active galactic nucleus jet feedback in hydrostatic haloes

Author(s): Rainer Weinberger; Kung-Yi Su; Kristian Ehlert; Christoph Pfrommer; Lars Hernquist; Greg L Bryan; Volker Springel; Yuan Li; Blakesley Burkhart; Ena Choi; Claude-André Faucher-Giguère
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1396

Particle acceleration at magnetized, relativistic, turbulent shock fronts

Author(s): Virginia Bresci; Martin Lemoine; Laurent Gremillet
Published in: Phys. Rev. Research, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2643-1564
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevresearch.5.023194

Why are thermally and cosmic ray-driven galactic winds fundamentally different?

Author(s): T. Thomas, C. Pfrommer, R. Pakmor
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 698, 2025, Page(s) A104, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202450817

The MillenniumTNG Project: the hydrodynamical full physics simulation and a first look at its galaxy clusters

Author(s): Rüdiger Pakmor; Volker Springel; Jonathan P Coles; Thomas Guillet; Christoph Pfrommer; Sownak Bose; Monica Barrera; Ana Maria Delgado; Fulvio Ferlito; Carlos Frenk; Boryana Hadzhiyska; César Hernández-Aguayo; Lars Hernquist; Rahul Kannan; Simon D M White
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac3620

CRexit: How different cosmic ray transport modes affect thermal instability in the circumgalactic medium

Author(s): M. Weber, T. Thomas, C. Pfrommer, R. Pakmor
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 698, 2025, Page(s) A125, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202553954

Magnetic field amplification in cosmological zoom simulations from dwarf galaxies to galaxy groups

Author(s): Rüdiger Pakmor, Rebekka Bieri, Freeke van de Voort, Maria Werhahn, Azadeh Fattahi, Thomas Guillet, Christoph Pfrommer, Volker Springel, Rosie Y Talbot
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 528, 2024, Page(s) 2308-2325, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae112

Deciphering the physical basis of the intermediate-scale instability

Author(s): Mohamad Shalaby, Timon Thomas, Christoph Pfrommer, Rouven Lemmerz, Virginia Bresci
Published in: Journal of Plasma Physics, Issue 89, 2024, ISSN 0022-3778
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0022377823001289

Coupling multi-fluid dynamics equipped with Landau closures to the particle-in-cell method

Author(s): Rouven Lemmerz, Mohamad Shalaby, Timon Thomas, Christoph Pfrommer
Published in: Journal of Plasma Physics, Issue 90, 2024, ISSN 0022-3778
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0022377823001113

The feasibility of constraining DM interactions with high-redshift observations by <i>JWST</i>

Author(s): Ali Kurmus; Sownak Bose; Mark Lovell; Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine; Mark Vogelsberger; Christoph Pfrommer; Jesús Zavala
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac2195

Simulating Radio Synchrotron Morphology, Spectra, and Polarization of Cosmic Ray Driven Galactic Winds

Author(s): H.-H. Sandy 懷萱 Chiu 邱, Mateusz Ruszkowski, Timon Thomas, Maria Werhahn, Christoph Pfrommer
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 976, 2024, Page(s) 136, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad84e9

Cosmic-ray-driven galactic winds: transport modes of cosmic rays and Alfvén-wave dark regions

Author(s): T Thomas; C Pfrommer; R Pakmor
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad472

Anisotropic Velocity Fluctuations in Galaxy Mergers: A Probe of the Magnetic Field

Author(s): Yue Hu, Joseph Whittingham, Alex Lazarian, Christoph Pfrommer, Siyao Xu, Thomas Berlok
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 983, 2025, Page(s) 32, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adbe68

Cosmic ray feedback in galaxies and galaxy clusters – A pedagogical introduction and a topical review of the acceleration, transport, observables, and dynamical impact of cosmic rays

Author(s): M. Ruszkowski, C. Pfrommer
Published in: Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 0935-4956
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00159-023-00149-2

Discovery of Diffuse Radio Emission in a Massive <i>z</i> = 1.709 Cool Core Cluster: A Candidate Radio Minihalo

Author(s): Julie HLavacek-Larrondo, Roland Timmerman, Christoph Pfrommer, Erik Osinga, Larissa Tevlin, Tracy M. A. Webb, Natalia Martorella, Xiaoyuan Zhang, Reinout van Weeren, Hyunseop Choi, Gabriella Di Gennaro, Marie-Lou Gendron-Marsolais, Carter Rhea
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Issue 987, 2025, Page(s) L40, ISSN 2041-8205
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/add527

Does the magneto-thermal instability survive whistler-suppression of thermal conductivity in galaxy clusters?

Author(s): Lorenzo Maria Perrone, Thomas Berlok, Christoph Pfrommer
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 1, 2024, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2311.02163

Relighting the fire in Hickson Compact Group (HCG) 15: Magnetised fossil plasma revealed by the SKA Pathfinders and Precursors

Author(s): C. J. Riseley, T. Vernstrom, L. Lovisari, E. O’Sullivan, F. Gastaldello, M. Brienza, P. K. Nayak, A. Bonafede, E. Carretti, S. W. Duchesne, S. Giacintucci, A. M. Hopkins, B. S. Koribalski, F. Loi, C. Pfrommer, W. Raja, K. Ross, K. Rubinur, M. Ruszkowski, T. W. Shimwell, M. S. de Villiers, J. West, H. R. M. Zovaro, T. Akahori, C. S. Anderson, D. J. Bomans, A. Drabent, L. Rudnick, R. Santra
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 697, 2025, Page(s) A45, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202553890

Paicos: A Python package for analysis of (cosmological)simulations performed with Arepo

Author(s): Thomas Berlok, Léna Jlassi, Ewald Puchwein, Troels Haugbølle
Published in: Journal of Open Source Software, Issue 9, 2024, Page(s) 6296, ISSN 2475-9066
Publisher: Open Source Initiative
DOI: 10.21105/joss.06296

Simulating radio synchrotron emission in star-forming galaxies: small-scale magnetic dynamo and the origin of the far-infrared–radio correlation

Author(s): C. Pfrommer, M. Werhahn, R. Pakmor, P. Girichidis, C. M. Simpson
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac1808

The impact of magnetic fields on cosmological galaxy mergers – II. Modified angular momentum transport and feedback

Author(s): Joseph Whittingham; Martin Sparre; Christoph Pfrommer; Rüdiger Pakmor
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2680

Self-regulated AGN feedback of light jets in cool-core galaxy clusters

Author(s): K Ehlert; R Weinberger; C Pfrommer; R Pakmor; V Springel
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac2860

Thermal conductivity with bells and whistlers: Suppression of the magnetothermal instability in galaxy clusters

Author(s): Lorenzo Maria Perrone, Thomas Berlok, Christoph Pfrommer
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 690, 2024, Page(s) A292, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449555

How Cosmic Rays Mediate the Evolution of the Interstellar Medium

Author(s): C. M. Simpson, R. Pakmor, C. Pfrommer, S. C. O. Glover, R. Smith
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac3601

Energy Dissipation in Strong Collisionless Shocks: The Crucial Role of Ion-to-electron Scale Separation in Particle-in-cell Simulations

Author(s): Mohamad Shalaby
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Issue 977, 2024, Page(s) L43, ISSN 2041-8205
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad99d8

Exploring magnetised galactic outflows in starburst dwarf galaxies NGC 3125 and IC 4662

Author(s): Sam Taziaux, Ancla Müller, Björn Adebahr, Aritra Basu, Christoph Pfrommer, Michael Stein, Krysztof T. Chyży, Dominik J. Bomans, Torsten Enßlin, Volker Heesen, Peter Kamphuis, Marian Soida, Marek Wezgowiec, Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar, Samata Das, Julia Tjus
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 696, 2025, Page(s) A226, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202453311

The magnetised and thermally unstable tails of jellyfish galaxies

Author(s): M. Sparre, C. Pfrommer, E. Puchwein
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 1, 2024, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3607

Spectrally resolved cosmic rays - III. Dynamical impact and properties of the circumgalactic medium

Author(s): Philipp Girichidis; Maria Werhahn; Christoph Pfrommer; Rüdiger Pakmor; Volker Springel
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 1, 2024, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3628