{"paper":{"title":"The optical morphologies of galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulation: a comparison to Pan-STARRS observations","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["astro-ph.CO"],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.GA","authors_text":"Annalisa Pillepich, David A. Thilker, Dylan Nelson, Federico Marinacci, Gregory F. Snyder, Jennifer M. Lotz, Lars Hernquist, Mark Vogelsberger, Paul Torrey, Rainer Weinberger, Ruediger Pakmor, Sandro Tacchella, Shy Genel, Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez, Volker Springel","submitted_at":"2018-09-21T18:00:00Z","abstract_excerpt":"We have generated synthetic images of $\\sim$27,000 galaxies from the IllustrisTNG and the original Illustris hydrodynamic cosmological simulations, designed to match Pan-STARRS observations of $\\log_{10}(M_{\\ast}/{\\rm M}_{\\odot}) \\approx 9.8$-$11.3$ galaxies at $z \\approx 0.05$. Most of our synthetic images were created with the SKIRT radiative transfer code, including the effects of dust attenuation and scattering, and performing the radiative transfer directly on the Voronoi mesh used by the simulations themselves. We have analysed both our synthetic and real Pan-STARRS images with the newly"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1809.08239","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}