Team Members
Participating Institutions
AIP Potsdam
Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam, Germany
The AIP is a leading centre for exoplanets, stars, extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology. The AIP group on cosmology and high-energy astrophysics leads the PICO-Cluster project and contributes to cosmological simulation development and galaxy cluster science, including plasma astrophysics.
aip.de
MPA Garching
Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Germany
The MPA is a leading centre for theoretical astrophysics, and plays a central role in the IllustrisTNG and MillenniumTNG collaborations. The Garching group provides the AREPO code (AREPO-2 version), IllustrisTNG galaxy formation framework, and scientific collaborations.
mpa-garching.mpg.de
Niels Bohr Institute
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Thomas Berlok started working on PICO-Cluster as a postdoc with Christoph Pfrommer at AIP, and his continued work on the project is supported by the NBI.
nbi.ku.dkAcknowledgements
TB acknowledges funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101106080. CP and LP acknowledge support from the European Research Council via the ERC Advanced Grant "PICOGAL" (project ID 101019746). The authors gratefully acknowledge computing time on SuperMUC-NG granted through the project "The plasma physics of galaxy clusters in a cosmological context" (ID: pn68cu), and use of the Tycho supercomputer hosted at the SCIENCE HPC centre at the University of Copenhagen.