Fabio FontanotINAF-OATs, IFPU, Gabriella De LuciaINAF-OATs, IFPU, Lizhi XieTianjin Normal University, Michaela HirschmannEPFL, INAF-OATs, Carlton BaughICC, Durham University, John C. HellyICC
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Abstract
We present results from the latest version of the GAEA model of galaxy
formation coupled with merger trees extracted from the P-Millennium Simulation
(PMS), which provides a better mass resolution, a larger volume and assumes
cosmological parameters consistent with latest results from the Planck mission.
The model includes, at the same time, a treatment for the partition of cold gas
into atomic and molecular (H$_2$) components; a better treatment for
environmental processes acting on satellite galaxies; an updated modelling of
cold gas accretion on Super-Massive Black Hole and relative AGN feedback on the
host galaxy. We compare GAEA predictions based on the PMS, with model
realizations based on other simulations in the Millennium Suite at different
resolution, showing that the new model provides a remarkable consistency in the
statistical properties of galaxy populations. We interpret this as due to the
interplay between AGN feedback and H$_2$-based SFR (both acting as regulators
of the cold gas content). We then compare model predictions with available data
for the galaxy 2-point correlation function (2pCF) in the redshift range 0