A large fraction of accreted mass comes from stellar mergers

zhafen / linefinder

A tool for finding and classifying the worldlines of Lagrangian parcels of mass, in the context of hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy formation.

https://zhafen.github.io/linefinder

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Closed zhafen closed 6 years ago

zhafen commented 6 years ago

Originally reported by Zachary Hafen (Bitbucket: zhafen, GitHub: zhafen)

$time_dependent_accretion_fraction.png$

As seen in the above image, a lot of the material that is_accreted at a given redshift is flagged as merger-star. Why? This doesn't seem right.

zhafen commented 6 years ago

Original comment by Zachary Hafen (Bitbucket: zhafen, GitHub: zhafen)

Fixed Issue #53. I was masking only the accreted material, instead of masking everything else.