Antonio da Silva research

Research topics
Observational Cosmology	Numerical Cosmology	International collaborations
Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect and secondary anisotropies of the CMB Clusters of galaxies Galaxy clustering Gravitational lensing Cosmological paramameters estimation	Hydrodynamic N-body simulations of structure formation: non-gravitational heating and cooling Dark Energy All sky and sky patch map making algorithms: SZ effect cluster polarization X-rays	ESA Planck Surveyor High Frequency Instrument associate and collaborator Clusters and Secondary Anisotropies Working Group (WG5) CLEF-SSH (CLuster Evolution & Formation using Supercomputer Simulations with Hydrodynamics)

galaxy cluster and sourrounding
galaxies falling through filaments

all-sky simulation of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect
(visible structures are filaments and galaxy clusters)

Publications
Refereed Papers
-	Simulating the impact of dust cooling on the statistical properties of the intra-cluster medium Etienne Pointecouteau, Antonio da Silva, Andrea Catalano, Ludovic Montier, Joseph Lanoux, Mauro Roncarelli, Martin Giard, 2009, Advances in Space Research, in press, astro-ph/0906.4038
-	The impact of dust on the scaling properties of galaxy clusters Antonio C. da Silva, Andrea Catalano, Ludovic Montier, Etienne Pointecouteau, Joseph Lanoux, Martin Giard, 2009, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc, 396, 849-859
-	Cluster scaling relations from cosmological hydrodynamic simulations in dark energy dominated universe Nabila Aghanim, Antonio C. da Silva, Nelson Nunes, 2009, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 496, 637-644
-	The Planck cluster survey Bartlett, J. G., Chamballu, A., Melin, J.-B., Arnaud, M., Members of the Planck Working Group 5, 2008, Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol.329, Issue 2, p.147
-	The evolution of clusters in the CLEF cosmological simulation: X-ray structural and scaling properties Scott T. Kay, Antonio C. da Silva, Nabila Aghanim, Alain Blanchard, Andrew R. Liddle, Jean-Loup Puget, Rachida Sadat and Peter A. Thomas, 2007, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 377, 317-334
-	Number Counts in homogeneous Dark Energy models Nelson Nunes, Antonio C. da Silva, Nabila Aghanim, 2006, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 450, 899
-	Clusters of Galaxies: New Results from the CLEF Hydrodynamics Simulation Scott T. Kay, Antonio C. da Silva, Nabila Aghanim, Alain Blanchard, Andrew R. Liddle, Jean-Loup Puget, Rachida Sadat and Peter A. Thomas, 2005, Advances in Space Research, Volume 36, Issue 4, 694
-	Primordial quadrupole-induced polarisation from filamentary structures and galaxy clusters Guo Chin Liu, Antonio C. da Silva and Nabila Aghanim, 2004, The Astrophysical Journal, 621, 15
-	Hydrodynamical simulations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect: cluster scaling relations and X-ray properties Antonio C. da Silva, Scott T. Kay, Andrew R. Liddle, Peter A. Thomas, 2004, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc, 348, 1401-1408
-	The impact of cooling and pre-heating on the Sunyaev-Zel´dovich effect Antonio C. da Silva, Scott T. Kay, Andrew R. Liddle, Peter A. Thomas, Frazer R. Pearce, Domingos Barbosa, 2001, The Astrophysical Journal, 561, L15
-	Hydrodynamical simulations of the Sunyaev-Zel´dovich effect: the kinetic effect Antonio C. da Silva, Domingos Barbosa, Andrew R. Liddle and Peter A. Thomas, 2001, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc, 326, 155
-	Hydrodynamical simulations of the Sunyaev-Zel´dovich effect Antonio C. da Silva, Domingos Barbosa, Andrew R. Liddle and Peter A. Thomas, 2000, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc, 317, 37-44
Non-refereed proceedings
-	The CLEF-SSH simulation project Antonio C. da Silva, Scott T. Kay, Nabila Aghanim, Alain Blanchard, Andrew R. Liddle, Jean-Loup Puget, Rachida Sadat and Peter A. Thomas, 2005, in proceedings "SF2A-2004: Semaine de l´Astrophysique Française", 657, astro-ph/0411649
-	CMB Quadropole induced polarization from clusters and filaments Guo Chin Liu, Antonio C. da Silva and Nabila Aghanim, 2004, in proceedings of the XXXIXth Recontres de Moriond 'Exploring the Universe', astro-ph/0409297
-	Sunyaev-Zel'dovich scaling relations in Galaxy Clusters: results from hydrodynamical N-body simulations Antonio C. da Silva, 2004, Astrophysics and Space Science, 290, 167-176, astro- ph/0403542
-	Hydrodynamical simulations of the Sunyaev-Zel´dovich effect Antonio C. da Silva, Domingos Barbosa, Andrew R. Liddle and Peter A. Thomas, 2000, Energy densities in the Universe, in proceedings of the XXXVth Recontres de Moriond, edited by J. Tran Thanh Van, R. Ansari and Y. Giraud-Héraud, Series: Moriond workshops, Thê Gioi, 2000, 99-102
-	CMB angular power spectrum and the cosmological parameters Antonio C. da Silva and Paulo Crawford, 1999, Astrophysics and Space Science, 261, 275
D.Phil. Thesis
-	The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect: predictions from Hydrodynamical N-Body Simulations thesis.ps.gz (5.8 MB) Antonio C. da Silva, University of Sussex, October 2002
Books (editor)
-	3K, SN's, Clusters: Hunting the Cosmological Parameters with Precision Cosmology Domingos Barbosa, Antonio da Silva and Ana Morão, 2004, Astrophysics and Space Science, Vol. 290, Nos.1-2

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