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the simulations
HESTIA
High-resolution Environmental Simulations of The Immediate Area
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Stars, gas and dark matter
Gas and the Local Group's circumgalactic medium
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The Local Group
Spiral Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies
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Welcome!

To the Hestia Project
This web site is still under construction

Rationale

The Local Group is a special place.

Projects

A list of projects we are working on

Papers

Accepted papers

Images and Movies

Visualizations created by Arman Khalatyan

Want to use the simulations for your own project?

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About The Team

The HESTIA suite of simulations is a collaboration of collaborations: from the CosmicFlows team which compiles galaxy distances, to the CLUES collaboration which generates constrained initial conditions, to the AURIGA model of galaxy formation that employs the AREPO hydrosolver.

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Hestia, the greek goddess of the home, holding a simulated Milky Way and an observed Andromeda