Predicting sub-millimeter flux densities from global galaxy properties by R. K. Cochrane et al. on Wednesday 23 November

Recent years have seen growing interest in post-processing cosmological

simulations with radiative transfer codes to predict observable fluxes for

simulated galaxies. However, this can be slow, and requires a number of

assumptions in cases where simulations do not resolve the ISM. Zoom-in

simulations better resolve the detailed structure of the ISM and the geometry

of stars and gas, however statistics are limited due to the computational cost

of simulating even a single halo. In this paper, we make use of a set of high

resolution, cosmological zoom-in simulations of massive M_star>10^10.5M_sol at

z=2), star-forming galaxies from the FIRE suite. We run the SKIRT radiative

transfer code on hundreds of snapshots in the redshift range 1.5