Speaker: Adrianne Slyz (oxford)
On large scales, the most striking feature of the LCDM model is the ‘cosmic web’: a network of sheets and filaments at the intersection of which dark matter halos are embedded. Gas flows along this network, ultimately imparting mass and angular momentum to galaxies. Through an analysis of cosmological
Adaptive Mesh Refinement simulations, I will present recent efforts to understand the consequences of cold filamentary accretion on how galaxies acquire angular momentum, with emphasis on high redshift (z>3) objects.