Our physicists and their collaborators in Leiden are making public one of the largest datasets in cosmology, offering scientists around the world a new way to explore how the Universe evolves. <\/p>\n
The data come from the FLAMINGO project, an international effort involving large-scale supercomputer simulations that model how matter evolves across cosmic time.<\/p>\n
More than 2.5 petabytes of data are now freely available through the DiRAC (Distributed Research Using Advanced Computer) Memory Intensive Service at our Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC).<\/p>\n
All the simulations were run on the COSMA-8 supercomputer which is hosted at Durham as part of the DiRAC national high-performance computing facility in the UK.<\/p>\n
This new dataset release provides researchers worldwide with unprecedented access to detailed virtual universes.<\/p>\n
Opening new windows on the Universe<\/p>\n
Cosmological simulations let scientists follow how dark and visible matter clusters and galaxies form across the Universe.<\/p>\n
They are essential for understanding the physical processes at play in the universe and for interpreting the latest observations from major telescopes and satellites.<\/p>\n
By comparing simulated universes with real data, researchers can test ideas about dark matter, dark energy and the forces that shape galaxies.<\/p>\n
The FLAMINGO project brings together two areas of cosmology that are often kept apart, astrophysics and particle physics<\/p>\n
Many detailed simulations focus on small regions of space so they can model the complex physical processes inside galaxies.<\/p>\n
But precision cosmology needs models that cover huge volumes.<\/p>\n
FLAMINGO does both.<\/p>\n
Its simulations stretch across billions of light years, making it possible to study rare structures such as massive galaxy clusters while still capturing the physics of galaxy formation.<\/p>\n
Making data accessible worldwide<\/p>\n
Because the dataset is so vast, the FLAMINGO team, a collaboration between the ICC and Leiden University in The Netherlands, developed a web-based system that lets researchers access only the information they need from the 2.5 petabytes of data<\/p>\n
Researchers have already used FLAMINGO for studies of galaxy formation and the large-scale structure of the Universe.<\/p>\n
With the full dataset now public, the project is set to support many more discoveries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our physicists and their collaborators in Leiden are making public one of the largest datasets in cosmology, offering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,66],"class_list":["post-633930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}