Hugh M Couchman - McMaster Experts

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Faculty of Science, McMaster University
Professor Emeritus, Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science

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chapters
- Gravitational N-body simulation of large-scale cosmic structure. 239-264. 2019
- Cosmological Simulations. 1-9. 1999
- Towards an Understanding of Galaxy Formation. 507-515. 1999
- Simulating Galaxy Formation on SMPS. 71-82. 1998
- The Virgo Consortium:The Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Clusters. 389-394. 1998
- Hydrodynamical simulations of the universe. 148-155. 1997
- Angular Structure in the Southern Cluster Catalogue. 405-406. 1989
- Dissipative N-Body Simulations of CDM Cosmologies. 337-338. 1989
- Testing Cosmic Fluctuation Spectra. 335-336. 1989
- Models for the Evolution of the Two Point Correlation Function. 263-265. 1988
- Theoretical Models for the Galaxy Angular Correlation Function. 556-556. 1988
conferences
- Some remarks on new numerical estimations of the Rees-Sciama effect. Proceedings of Science. 081. 2016
- Improving on numerical simulations of nonlinear CMB anisotropies. Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 012027-012027. 2015
- A New Numerical Approach to Estimate the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich Effect. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics. 277-281. 2014
- CMB Anisotropy Computations Using Hydra Gas Code. Springer proceedings in physics. 189-196. 2014
- Dark Satellites: How They Lost Their Baryons. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series. 305-+. 2012
- Observations and simulations of the CMB temperature anisotropy at very small angular scales. AIP Conference Proceedings. 252-260. 2012
- Predictions of Quasar Clustering: Redshift, Luminosity and Selection Dependence. AIP Conference Proceedings. 64-+. 2009
- Quasars &amp; Cosmic Evolution: The Role of Outflows. 20th International Symposium on High-Performance Computing in an Advanced Collaborative Environment (HPCS'06). 20. 2006
- Interactive parallel visualization of large particle datasets. Parallel Computing. 243-260. 2005
- HYDRA-MPI: An adaptive particle-particle, particle-mesh code for conducting cosmological simulations on MPP architectures. HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS. 23-29. 2003
- Large-Scale Computation at SHARC-Net. HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS. 33-33. 2003
- The Angular Momentum Problem in CDM Cosmolgies: The End of the Beginning?. Iau Symposia. 227-236. 2003
- Numerical simulation of the formation of galaxies: The end of the beginning?. SEEING THROUGH THE DUST: THE DETECTION OF HI AND THE EXPLORATION OF THE ISM IN GALAXIES, PROCEEDINGS. 397-405. 2002
- Gravitational N-body simulation of large-scale cosmic structure. RESTLESS UNIVERSE - APPLICATIONS OF GRAVITATIONAL N-BODY DYNAMICS TO PLANETARY, STELLAR AND GALACTIC SYSTEMS. 239-264. 2001
- Towards a Portable, Fast Parallel AP3M-SPH Code: HYDRA_MPI. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 360-369. 2001
- Dual hidden Markov model characterization of wavelet coefficients from multiaspect scattering data. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 954-965. 2000
- Cosmological simulations - Modelling the formation and evolution of cosmic structure. NUMERICAL ASTROPHYSICS. 1-9. 1999
- The effect of substructure on the final state of matter in an X-ray cluster. 12TH KINGSTON MEETING : COMPUTATIONAL ASTROPHYSICS. 369-371. 1997
- The Virgo project: Cosmological simulations using Hydra. MAPPING, MEASURING, AND MODELLING THE UNIVERSE. 101-106. 1996
- Simulations of clusters using hydra: Adaptive PPPM+SPH. CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES. 255-258. 1994
- STRUCTURE FORMATION IN A LOW BIAS CDM UNIVERSE. SPACE DISTRIBUTION OF QUASARS. 369-378. 1991
- Clustering and Dynamics in a Dissipative CDM N-Body Simulation. EPOCH OF GALAXY FORMATION. 275-279. 1989
- Galaxy Mergers in a CDM Model. EPOCH OF GALAXY FORMATION. 271-274. 1989
journal articles
- The anatomy of a star-forming galaxy II: FUV heating via dust. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 499:2028-2041. 2020
- A Tale of Two Clump Masses: A new way to study clump formation in simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 486:5022-5036. 2019
- trevr: A generalNlog2Nradiative transfer algorithm. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 485:3681-3695. 2019
- Haloes at the ragged edge: the importance of the splashback radius. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 472:2694-2712. 2017
- On the estimation and detection of the Rees–Sciama effect. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 464:3784-3795. 2017
- Cosmological galaxy evolution with superbubble feedback – II. The limits of supernovae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 463:1431-1445. 2016
- The anatomy of a star-forming galaxy: pressure-driven regulation of star formation in simulated galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 462:3053-3068. 2016
- Accurate estimators of correlation functions in Fourier space. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 460:3624-3636. 2016
- The history of stellar metallicity in a simulated disc galaxy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 456:3119-3141. 2016
- The properties of bound and unbound molecular cloud populations formed in galactic disc simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 455:920-929. 2016
- Cosmological galaxy evolution with superbubble feedback – I. Realistic galaxies with moderate feedback. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 453:3500-3510. 2015
- THE ENERGETICS OF CUSP DESTRUCTION. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 806:229-229. 2015
- A superbubble feedback model for galaxy simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 442:3013-3025. 2014
- The role of cold flows and reservoirs in galaxy formation with strong feedback. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 442:732-740. 2014
- The Celestial Buffet: multiple populations and globular cluster formation in dwarf galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 439:2043-2049. 2014
- SYSTEMATIC PROBLEMS WITH USING DARK MATTER SIMULATIONS TO MODEL STELLAR HALOS. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 783:95-95. 2014
- The MaGICC volume: reproducing statistical properties of high-redshift galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 437:3529-3539. 2014
- MaGICC-WDM: the effects of warm dark matter in hydrodynamical simulations of disc galaxy formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 437:293-304. 2014
- MaGICC thick disc – I. Comparing a simulated disc formed with stellar feedback to the Milky Way. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 436:625-634. 2013
- HALO ORBITS IN COSMOLOGICAL DISK GALAXIES: TRACERS OF FORMATION HISTORY. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 767:93-93. 2013
- The luminosity function of diverse satellite galaxy systems. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 429:452-457. 2013
- Making Galaxies In a Cosmological Context: the need for early stellar feedback. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 428:129-140. 2013
- The stellar metallicity distribution of disc galaxies and bulges in cosmological simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 427:1401-1417. 2012
- The distribution of metals in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of dwarf disc galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 425:969-978. 2012
- magicc haloes: confronting simulations with observations of the circumgalactic medium at z=0. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 425:1270-1277. 2012
- BUILDING THE STELLAR HALO THROUGH FEEDBACK IN DWARF GALAXIES. Astrophysical Journal Letters. 755:L35-L35. 2012
- The Aquila comparison project: the effects of feedback and numerical methods on simulations of galaxy formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 423:1726-1749. 2012
- Metallicity gradients in disks. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). 540:A56-A56. 2012
- HALO EXPANSION IN COSMOLOGICAL HYDRO SIMULATIONS: TOWARD A BARYONIC SOLUTION OF THE CUSP/CORE PROBLEM IN MASSIVE SPIRALS. Astrophysical Journal Letters. 744:L9-L9. 2012
- Advanced morphological galaxy classification: a comparison of observed and simulated galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 418:801-810. 2011
- Mechanisms of baryon loss for dark satellites in cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 415:257-270. 2011
- Cosmological galaxy formation simulations using smoothed particle hydrodynamics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 408:812-826. 2010
- CONSEQUENCES OF COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND-REGULATED STAR FORMATION. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 715:194-201. 2010
- ESTIMATING SMALL ANGULAR SCALE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND ANISOTROPY WITH HIGH-RESOLUTIONN-BODY SIMULATIONS: WEAK LENSING. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 712:367-379. 2010
- SELF-GRAVITY AND ANGULAR MOMENTUM TRANSPORT IN EXTENDED GALACTIC DISKS. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 697:L162-L166. 2009
- PREDICTIONS OF QUASAR CLUSTERING: REDSHIFT, LUMINOSITY, AND SELECTION DEPENDENCE. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 693:552-563. 2009
- On the treatment of entropy mixing in numerical cosmology. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 387:427-438. 2008
- Measuring AGN Feedback with the Sunyaev‐Zel’dovich Effect. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 678:674-685. 2008
- Stellar Feedback in Dwarf Galaxy Formation. Science. 319:174-177. 2008
- Quasars: What Turns Them Off?. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 653:86-100. 2006
- The removal of cusps from galaxy centres by stellar feedback in the early Universe. Nature. 442:539-542. 2006
- A parallel adaptive P3M code with hierarchical particle reordering. Computer Physics Communications. 174:540-554. 2006
- Constraining Global Properties of the Draco Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 640:252-269. 2006
- Formation of Minigalaxies in Defunct Cosmological HiiRegions. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 639:633-643. 2006
- Erratum: The sources of intergalactic metals. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 366:1118-1118. 2006
- The sources of intergalactic metals. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 365:615-637. 2006
- A new fast parallel statistical measurement technique for computational cosmology. International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking. 4:303-303. 2006
- Simulations of the formation, evolution and clustering of galaxies and quasars. Nature. 435:629-636. 2005
- Modeling Star Formation in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies: A Case for Extended Dark Matter Halos. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 624:726-741. 2005
- A case for extended dark matter halos in dwarf spheroidal galaxies. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 1:92-96. 2005
- Stable clustering, the halo model and non-linear cosmological power spectra. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 341:1311-1332. 2003
- Galaxy Clusters in Hubble Volume Simulations: Cosmological Constraints from Sky Survey Populations. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 573:7-36. 2002
- How big were the first cosmological objects?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 330:927-936. 2002
- Hydrodynamic Drag in Cosmological Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 561:69-81. 2001
- Simulations of galaxy formation in a cosmological volume. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 326:649-666. 2001
- A fitting formula for the non-linear evolution of the bispectrum. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 325:1312-1316. 2001
- Simulations of deep pencil-beam redshift surveys. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 325:803-816. 2001
- Star Formation, Supernova Feedback, and the Angular Momentum Problem in Numerical Cold Dark Matter Cosmogony: Halfway There?. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 555:L17-L20. 2001
- A simulatedτCDM cosmology cluster catalogue: the NFW profile and the temperature-mass scaling relations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 324:450-462. 2001
- The Effect of Radiative Cooling on Scaling Laws of X-Ray Groups and Clusters. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 552:L27-L30. 2001
- The mass function of dark matter haloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 321:372-384. 2001
- Implementing Feedback in Simulations of Galaxy Formation: A Survey of Methods. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 545:728-752. 2000
- Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics in cosmology: a comparative study of implementations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 319:619-648. 2000
- Clustering of galaxy clusters in cold dark matter universes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 319:209-214. 2000
- Weak gravitational lensing in different cosmologies, using an algorithm for shear in three dimensions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 319:267-288. 2000
- Simulation of Primordial Object Formation. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 544:6-20. 2000
- Simulation of primordial object formation. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 544:6-20. 2000
- The effect of radiative cooling on the X-ray properties of galaxy clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 317:1029-1040. 2000
- Resolving the Jeans Mass in Hydrodynamic Simulations of Hierarchical Clustering. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 539:124-135. 2000
- Resolving the Jeans mass in hydrodynamic simulations of hierarchical clustering. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 539:124-135. 2000
- Parameter tests within cosmological simulations of galaxy formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 316:374-394. 2000
- Public Release of N-body simulation and related data by the Virgo consortium 2000
- Hierarchical clustering and the baryon distribution in galaxy clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 315:834-838. 2000
- Peculiar velocities of galaxy clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 313:229-236. 2000
- High Resolution Simulation of Galaxy Formation with Feedback 2000
- The effect of radiative cooling on X-ray emission from clusters of galaxies 1999
- Weak gravitational lensing in the standard cold dark matter model, using an algorithm for three-dimensional shear. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 310:453-464. 1999
- Hierarchical clustering, the universal density profile, and the mass-temperature scaling law of galaxy clusters 1999
- The Santa Barbara Cluster Comparison Project: A Comparison of Cosmological Hydrodynamics Solutions. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 525:554-582. 1999
- The santa barbara cluster comparison project: A comparison of cosmological hydrodynamics solutions. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 525:554-582. 1999
- Measuring the three-dimensional shear from simulation data, with applications to weak gravitational lensing. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 308:180-200. 1999
- Simulating the formation of large-scale cosmic structure with particle-grid methods. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 109:373-406. 1999
- A Simulation of Galaxy Formation and Clustering. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 521:L99-L102. 1999
- A simulation of galaxy formation and clustering. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 521:L99-L102. 1999
- Cosmological galaxy formation 1999
- Galaxy clustering determined from numerical cosmological simulations 1999
- The Bispectrum as a Signature of Gravitational Instability in Redshift Space. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 517:531-540. 1999
- The bispectrum as a signature of gravitational instability in redshift space. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 517:531-540. 1999
- A new parallel code for very large-scale cosmological simulations. New Astronomy. 3:687-705. 1998
- Galaxy Clusters in the Hubble Volume Simulations 1998
- Genus statistics of the Virgo N-body simulations and the 1.2-Jy redshift survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 298:1169-1188. 1998
- Genus statistics of the Virgo N-body simulations and the 1.2-Jy redshift survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 298:1169-1188. 1998
- The structure of galaxy clusters in various cosmologies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 296:1061-1071. 1998
- Evolution of Structure in Cold Dark Matter Universes. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 499:20-40. 1998
- A Numerical Renormalization Solution for Self‐similar Cosmic Structure Formation. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 497:499-511. 1998
- The Ω₀Dependence of the Evolution of ξ(r). The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 490:1-10. 1997
- Hydra: a parallel adaptive grid code. New Astronomy. 2:411-427. 1997
- A Parallel P^3M Code for Very Large Scale Cosmological Simulations 1997
- The structure of galaxy clusters in different cosmologies 1997
- The Virgo Consortium: The evolution and formation of galaxy clusters 1997
- Simulating cosmic structure at high resolution: Towards a billion particles?. 12TH KINGSTON MEETING : COMPUTATIONAL ASTROPHYSICS. 123:340-350. 1997
- The Virgo consortium: simulations of dark matter and galaxy clustering. DARK AND VISIBLE MATTER IN GALAXIES. 117:348-356. 1997
- Release of data from cosmological N-body simulations 1996
- Hydra Code Release 1996
- Hydra: an Adaptive-Mesh Implementation of P 3M-SPH. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 452:797-797. 1995
- Head-on mergers of systems containing gas. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 268:953-965. 1994
- MAPPING MODERATE REDSHIFT CLUSTERS. Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. 88:39-54. 1994
- Mergers of collisionless systems. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 264:497-508. 1993
- The scaling analysis as a tool to compare N-body simulations with observations - Application to a low-bias cold dark matter model. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 401:40-40. 1992
- Simulating the formation of a cluster of galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 257:11-31. 1992
- Large-scale structure in a low-bias universe. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 389:453-453. 1992
- Mesh-refined P3M - A fast adaptive N-body algorithm. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 368:L23-L23. 1991
- Detecting clusters in galaxy catalogs. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 364:426-426. 1990
- Cosmological velocity bias. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 352:L29-L29. 1990
- Clustering in the southern cluster survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 239:513-532. 1989
- Mergers and bias in a cold dark matter cosmology. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 340:47-47. 1989
- The spatial distribution of southern clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 236:51P-56P. 1989
- The statistical clustering of pregalactic objects and resultant astrophysical consequences in cosmologies with Cold Dark Matter. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 225:795-822. 1987
- The statistics of peaks in three-dimensional Gaussian noise : some simple results. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 225:777-794. 1987
- Pregalactic evolution in cosmologies with cold dark matter. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 221:53-62. 1986
- Reheating of the intergalactic medium at z>10. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 214:137-159. 1985
preprints