Please click on the links for my [CurriculumVitae] or a listing of my papers on [ads] [arXiv].
In pre-print
- Osinga, Diemer, Villaescusa-Navarro, D’Onghia & Timbie
Atomic hydrogen shows its true colours: Correlations between HI and galaxy colour in simulations
[ads] [arXiv] - Diemer, Behroozi & Mansfield
Haunted haloes: tracking the ghosts of subhaloes lost by halo finders
[ads] [arXiv]
Refereed Journal Articles
- Stevens, Brown, Diemer, Pillepich, Hernquist, Nelson & 12 co-authors
VERTICO and IllustrisTNG: The spatially resolved effects of environment on galactic gas
[ads] [arXiv] [2023 ApJL 957, L19] - Gebek, Baes, Diemer, de Blok, Nelson, Kapoor, Camps, Rabyang & Leeuw
The atomic-to-molecular hydrogen transition in the TNG50 simulation: Using realistic UV fields to create spatially resolved HI maps
[ads] [arXiv] [2023 MNRAS 521, 5645] - Shin & Diemer
What sets the splashback radius of dark matter haloes: accretion history or other properties?
[ads] [arXiv] [2023 MNRAS 521, 5570] - Garcia, Salazar, Rozo, Adhikari, Aung, Diemer, Nagai & Wolfe
A better way to define dark matter haloes
[ads] [arXiv] [2023 MNRAS 521, 2464] - Cannarozzo, Leauthaud, Oyarzún, Nipoti, Diemer, Huang, Rodriguez-Gomez, Sonnenfeld & Bundy
The Contribution of In-situ and Ex-situ Star Formation in Early-Type Galaxies: MaNGA versus IllustrisTNG
[ads] [arXiv] [2023 MNRAS 520, 5651] - Diemer
A dynamics-based density profile for dark haloes – II. Fitting function
[ads] [arXiv] [2023 MNRAS 519, 3292] - Semenov, Kravtsov & Diemer
Entropy-Conserving Scheme for Modeling Nonthermal Energies in Fluid Dynamics Simulations
[ads] [arXiv] [2022 ApJS 261, 16] - Park, Tacchella, Nelson, Hernquist, Weinberger, Diemer, Nelson, Pillepich, Marinacci & Vogelsberger
On the formation of massive quiescent galaxies with diverse morphologies in the TNG50 simulation
[ads] [arXiv] [2022 MNRAS 515, 213] - Xhakaj, Leauthaud, Lange, Hearin, Diemer & Dalal
Beyond Mass: Detecting Secondary Halo Properties with Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing
[ads] [arXiv] [2022 MNRAS 514, 2876] - Diemer
A dynamics-based density profile for dark haloes – I. Algorithm and basic results
[ads] [arXiv] [2022 MNRAS 513, 573] - O’Neil, Borrow, Vogelsberger & Diemer
The impact of galaxy selection on the splashback boundaries of galaxy clusters
[ads] [arXiv] [2022 MNRAS 513, 835] - Shi, Peng, Diemer, Stevens, Pillepich, Renzini & 12 co-authors
Cold Gas in Massive Galaxies as A Critical Test of Black Hole Feedback Models
[ads] [arXiv] [2022 ApJ 927, 189] - Brown, Wilson, Zabel, Davis, Boselli & 31 co-authors
VERTICO: The Virgo Environment Traced In CO Survey
[ads] [arXiv] [2021 ApJS 257, 21] - Nelson, Tacchella, Diemer, Leja, Hernquist & 19 co-authors
Spatially Resolved Star Formation and Inside-out Quenching in the TNG50 Simulation and 3D-HST Observations
[ads] [arXiv] [2021 MNRAS 508, 219] - Murray, Diemer, Chen, Neuhold, Schnapp, Peruzzi, Blevins & Engelman
TheHaloMod: An online calculator for the halo model
[ads] [arXiv] [2021 A&C 36, 100487] - O’Neil, Barnes, Vogelsberger & Diemer
The splashback boundary of haloes in hydrodynamic simulations
[ads] [arXiv] [2021 MNRAS 504, 4649] - Stevens, Lagos, Cortese, Catinella, Diemer, Nelson, Pillepich, Hernquist, Marinacci & Vogelsberger
Molecular hydrogen in IllustrisTNG galaxies: carefully comparing signatures of environment with local CO & SFR data
[ads] [arXiv] [2021 MNRAS 502, 3158] - Diemer
Flybys, orbits, splashback: subhalos and the importance of the halo boundary
[ads] [arXiv] [2021 ApJ 909, 112] - Millard, Diemer, Eales, Gomez, Beeston & Smith
IllustrisTNG and S2COSMOS: possible conflicts in the evolution of neutral gas and dust
[ads] [arXiv] [2021 MNRAS 500, 871] - Ardila, Huang, Leauthaud, Diemer, Pillepich & 9 co-authors
Stellar and Weak Lensing Profiles of Massive Galaxies in the Hyper-Suprime Cam Survey and in Hydrodynamic Simulations
[ads] [arXiv] [2021 MNRAS 500, 432] - Xhakaj, Diemer, Leauthaud, Wasserman, Huang, Luo, Adhikari & Singh
How Accurately Can We Detect the Splashback Radius of Dark Matter Halos and its Correlation With Accretion Rate?
[ads] [arXiv] [2020 MNRAS 499, 3534] - Diemer
The splashback radius of halos from particle dynamics: III. Halo catalogs, merger trees, and host-subhalo relations
[ads] [arXiv] [2020 ApJS 251, 17] - Diemer
Universal at last? The splashback mass function of dark matter halos
[ads] [arXiv] [2020 ApJ 903, 87] - Iyer, Tacchella, Genel, Hayward, Hernquist, Brooks, Caplar, Davé, Diemer & 4 co-authors
The Diversity and Variability of Star Formation Histories in Models of Galaxy Evolution
[ads] [arXiv] [2020 MNRAS 498, 430] - Brown, McCarthy, Diemer, Font, Stafford & Pfeifer
Connecting the structure of dark matter haloes to the primordial power spectrum
[ads] [arXiv] [2020 MNRAS 495, 4994] - Klitsch, Peroux, Zwaan, Smail, Nelson, Popping, Chen, Diemer, Ivison & 6 co-authors
ALMACAL VI: Molecular gas mass density across cosmic time via a blind search for intervening molecular absorbers
[ads] [arXiv] [2019 MNRAS 490, 1220] - Popping, Pillepich, Somerville, Decarli, Walter & 26 co-authors
The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the HUDF: the molecular gas content of galaxies and tensions with IllustrisTNG and the Santa Cruz SAM
[ads] [arXiv] [2019 ApJ 882, 137] - Stevens, Diemer, Lagos, Nelson, Obreschkow, Wang & Marinacci
Origin of the galaxy HI size-mass relation
[ads] [arXiv] [2019 MNRAS 490, 96] - Tacchella, Diemer, Hernquist, Genel & 7 co-authors
Morphology and star formation in IllustrisTNG: the buildup of spheroids and discs
[ads] [arXiv] [2019 MNRAS 487, 5416] - Diemer, Stevens, Lagos, Calette, Tacchella, Hernquist, Marinacci, Nelson & 4 co-authors
Atomic and molecular gas in IllustrisTNG galaxies at low redshift
[ads] [arXiv] [2019 MNRAS 487, 1529] - Nelson, Springel, Pillepich, Rodriguez-Gomez, Torrey, Genel, Vogelsberger & 7 co-authors
The IllustrisTNG simulations: public data release
[ads] [arXiv] [2019 Comp. Ast. 6:2] - Stevens, Diemer, Lagos, Nelson, Pillepich, Brown, Catinella, Hernquist, Weinberger, Vogelsberger & Marinacci
Atomic hydrogen in IllustrisTNG galaxies: the impact of environment parallelled with local 21-cm surveys
[ads] [arXiv] [2019 MNRAS 483, 5334] - Diemer & Joyce
An accurate physical model for halo concentrations
[ads] [arXiv] [2019 ApJ 871, 168] - Diemer
COLOSSUS: A python toolkit for cosmology, large-scale structure, and dark matter halos
[ads] [arXiv] [2018 ApJS 239, 35] - Diemer, Stevens, Forbes, Marinacci, Hernquist, Lagos, Sternberg & 6 co-authors
Modeling the atomic-to-molecular transition in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation
[ads] [arXiv] [2018 ApJS 238, 33] - Villaescusa-Navarro, Genel, Castorina, Obuljen, Spergel, Hernquist & 8 co-authors
Ingredients for 21cm intensity mapping
[ads] [arXiv] [2018 ApJ 866, 135] - Hearin, Campbell, Tollerud, Behroozi, Diemer & 9 co-authors
Forward modeling of large-scale structure: An open-source approach with Halotools
[ads] [arXiv] [2017 AJ 154, 190] - Villareal, Zentner, Mao, Purcell, van den Bosch, Diemer, Lange, Wang & Campbell
The Immitigable Nature of Assembly Bias: The Impact of Halo Definition on Assembly Bias
[ads] [arXiv] [2017 MNRAS 472, 1088] - Diemer, Mansfield, Kravtsov & More
The splashback radius of halos from particle dynamics. II. Dependence on mass, accretion rate, redshift, and cosmology
[ads] [arXiv] [2017 ApJ 843, 140] - Diemer
The splashback radius of halos from particle dynamics. I. The SPARTA algorithm
[ads] [arXiv] [2017 ApJS 231, 5] - Mansfield, Kravtsov & Diemer
Splashback shells of cold dark matter halos
[ads] [arXiv] [2017 ApJ 841, 34] - Shankar, Sonnenfeld, Mamon & eight co-authors
Revisiting the bulge-halo conspiracy I: Dependence on galaxy properties and halo mass
[ads] [arXiv] [2017 ApJ 840, 34] - Diemer & Facio
The Fabric of the Universe: Exploring the cosmic web in 3D prints and woven textiles
[ads] [arXiv] [2017 PASP 129, 975] - Diemer, Sparre, Abramson & Torrey
Log-normal star formation histories in simulated and observed galaxies
[ads] [arXiv] [2017 ApJ 839, 26] - Umetsu & Diemer
Lensing constraints on the mass profile shape and splashback radius of galaxy clusters
[ads] [arXiv] [2017 ApJ 836, 231] - More, Miyatake, Takada, Diemer, Kravtsov, Dalal, More, Murata, Mandelbaum, Rozo, Rykoff, Oguri & Spergel
Detection of the splashback radius and halo assembly bias of massive galaxy clusters
[ads] [arXiv] [2016 ApJ 825, 39] - Lin, Mandelbaum, Huang, Huang, Dalal, Diemer, Jian & Kravtsov
On detecting halo assembly bias with galaxy populations
[ads] [arXiv] [2016 ApJ 819, 119] - More, Diemer & Kravtsov
The splashback radius as a physical halo boundary and the growth of halo mass
[ads] [arXiv] [2015 ApJ 810, 36] - Diemer & Kravtsov
A universal model for halo concentrations
[ads] [arXiv] [2015 ApJ 799, 108] - Long, Jordan, van Rossum, Diemer, Graziani, Kessler, Meyer, Rich & Lamb
Three-dimensional simulations of pure deflagration models for thermonuclear Supernovae
[ads] [arXiv] [2014 ApJ 789, 103] - Diemer & Kravtsov
Dependence of the outer density profile of halos on their mass accretion rate
[ads] [arXiv] [2014 ApJ 789, 1] - Diemer, Kravtsov & More
On the evolution of cluster scaling relations
[ads] [arXiv] [2013 ApJ 779, 159] - Diemer, Kessler, Graziani, Jordan, Lamb, Long & van Rossum
Comparing the light curves of simulated Type Ia Supernovae with observations using data-driven models
[ads] [arXiv] [2013 ApJ 773, 119] - Diemer, More & Kravtsov
The pseudo-evolution of halo mass
[ads] [arXiv] [2013 ApJ 766, 25]
Other publications
- Cannarozzo, Nipoti, Sonnenfeld, Leauthaud, Huang, Diemer & Oyarzun
The merger-driven evolution of massive early-type galaxies
[ads] [arXiv] [Proceedings of the IAU (2021)] - Gu, Conroy, Diemer, Hernquist, Marinacci, Nelson, Pakmor, Pillepich & Vogelsberger
Coordinated Assembly of Galaxy Groups and Clusters in the IllustrisTNG Simulations
[ads] [arXiv] - Neyrinck, Elul, Silver, Mallouh, Aragón-Calvo, Banducci, Bloyd, Boodhoo, Diemer & 15 co-authors
Exploring Connections Between Cosmos & Mind Through Six Interactive Art Installations in “As Above As Below”
[ads] [arXiv] [SciArt Magazine, Feb 2020] - Xhakaj, Leauthaud, Diemer & Behroozi
Differences in Halo Mass Accretion Rate Definitions between SPARTA and Consistent Trees
[ads] [pdf] - Fabbiano, Elvis et al.
Increasing the Discovery Space in Astrophysics – A Collation of Six Submitted White Papers
[ads] [arXiv] - Diemer
On the (non-)universality of halo density profiles
PhD Thesis, University of Chicago, August 2015
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Invited Talks and Seminars
- Geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics seminar, UC Santa Cruz (remote), 12/01/2023
- Colloquium, Yale University, 10/26/2023
- ICRAR/UWA Seminar, University of Western Australia (remote), 04/06/2023
- CCAPP Seminar, Ohio State, 01/24/2023
- Cluster Cosmology Group Seminar, MPE Munich, 07/20/2022
- Mitchell Institute Seminar, Texas A&M University, 04/25/2022
- Particle Physics Seminar, Brookhaven National Lab (remote), 02/17/2022
- Cluster Group Seminar, University of Michigan (remote), 02/02/2022
- Cosmology Seminar, Oxford University (remote), 02/01/2022
- Colloquium, IRyA-UNAM Morelia, Mexico (remote), 11/06/2020
- Astrophysics Seminar, Cardiff University (remote), 10/14/2020
- Galaxy Crawl, University of Arizona (remote), 06/09/2020
- Cosmology Seminar, MPA Munich, 09/24/2019
- Cosmology & Extragalactic Seminar, University College London, UK, 09/11/2019
- Simulation Lunch, Oxford University, UK, 09/09/2019
- Group Seminar, LPNHE/Sorbonne, Paris, 06/04/2019
- Lunch Seminar, Argonne National Lab, 05/07/2019
- Physics Colloquium, University of Arizona, 04/26/2019
- Colloquium, University of Maryland, 03/27/2019
- Astrophysics Seminar, UC Santa Barbara, 03/21/2019
- Physics Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, 03/20/2019
- Galaxy Journal Club, STScI, 09/21/2018
- BCCP Cosmology Seminar, UC Berkeley, 04/17/2018
- Cosmology Seminar, Stanford University, 04/16/2018
- FLASH Seminar, UC Santa Cruz, 11/09/2017
- Colloquium, University of Michigan, 10/12/2017
- Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar, University of Zurich, 07/14/2017
- Colloquium, University Observatory Munich, 07/05/2017
- Astrophysics Seminar, Hebrew University Jerusalem, 06/27/2017
- Astronomy & Astrophysics Seminar, Tel Aviv University, 06/14/2017
- TAPIR Seminar, CalTech, 04/21/2017
- Seminar, UC Riverside, 04/19/2017
- Group seminar, UCLA, 04/17/2017
- High-energy phenomena seminar, Harvard/CfA, 04/05/2017
- AstroLunch Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, 03/14/2017
- Colloquium, ASIAA, Taipei, 04/13/2016
- APEC Seminar, Kavli IPMU, Tokyo, 04/07/2016
- YCAA Seminar, Yale University, 10/20/2015
- CIERA Seminar, Northwestern University, 12/01/2014
- Particle Astrophysics Seminar, Fermilab, 11/10/2014
- BCCP Cosmology Seminar, UC Berkeley, 10/07/2014
- KIPAC Cosmology Seminar, Stanford University, 10/06/2014
Conference Talks
- A dynamics-based density profile for dark matter halos
Alpine Cosmology Workshop, Prettau, Italy, 7/25/2023 - Where does the cosmic web end and the halo begin?
The cosmic web: Connecting galaxies to cosmology at high and low redshift, KITP, Santa Barbara, 1/10/2023 - Testing the growth of structure with the structure of halos
Intriguing inconsistencies in the growth of structure over cosmic time, Sesto, Italy, 07/28/2022 - Modeling cold gas and the ISM in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation
Computational Astrophysics in the ngVLA Era, Flatiron Institute, New York, 06/07/2022
- The (overlooked?) dynamics of particles in simulations
Advances in Cosmology through Numerical Simulations, MIAPP Munich, 05/17/2022 - A dynamics-based model for cluster halos
Galaxy Clusters: Challenging Our Cosmological Perspectives, STScI (remote), 04/29/2022 - Modeling the interstellar medium, and other fun with cosmological hydro simulations
NHFP Fellows Symposium, Washington DC, 10/22/2019 - The splashback radius as a physical halo boundary
KICC 10th Anniversary Symposium, Cambridge, UK, 09/19/2019 - Dark matter in halos and large-scale structure (invited review talk)
Matera Oscura, Matera, Italy, 09/05/2019 - Caustics, orbits, splashback: New insights into halo dynamics and structure
Alpine Cosmology Workshop, La Berarde, France, 07/01/2019 - Modeling HI, H2, and the ISM in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation
Zoom-in and out, Nordita, Stockholm, 06/20/2019 - The splashback radius in everyday life
Splashback Workshop, SLAC, 04/30/2019 - Caustics, orbits, splashback: New insights on halo dynamics and structure (invited talk)
8th KIAS workshop on cosmology and structure, KIAS, Seoul, 11/06/2018 - Atomic and molecular gas in IllustrisTNG
IllustrisTNG Science Workshop, MPA Garching, Germany, 10/15/2018 - The splashback radius of dark matter halos
Einstein Fellows Symposium, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, 10/02/2018 - Modeling the atomic-to-molecular transition in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation
Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop, UCSC, 08/07/2018 - Adventures in modeling the HI/H2 transition in cosmological simulations
Numerical Galaxy Formation Workshop, Schloss Ringberg, Germany, 03/21/2018 - Adventures in modeling molecular gas in cosmological simulations
Harvard-Heidelberg Star Formation Workshop, Cambridge MA, 11/15/2017 - Universality, history, and circumstance: On the structure and boundary of CDM halos (invited review talk)
Quantifying and understanding the galaxy-halo connection, KITP, 05/16/2017 - The splashback radius as a physical halo boundary
SnowPAC, Snowbird UT, 03/16/2016 - On the (non-)universality of cluster density profiles and concentrations
SnowCluster, Snowbird UT, 03/16/2015 - Dependence of the density profiles of halos on their mass accretion rate
Future directions in galaxy cluster surveys, Paris, 06/25/2014 - Comparing the light curves of simulated Type Ia Supernovae with observations
Fifty-One Erg Conference, Raleigh NC, 05/13/2013 - The pseudo-evolution of halo mass
Santa Fe Cosmology Workshop, Santa Fe NM, 07/12/2012 - Confronting simulations and observations of Type Ia Supernovae
Great Lakes Cosmology Workshop, Chicago IL, 06/15/2010
Poster Presentations
- Facio & Diemer, The Fabric of the Universe
Art Exhibition “The Woven Cosmos”, 15th Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America, Savanna GA, 2016 October 20-23
[jpg] - Diemer & Kravtsov, A universal model for halo concentrations
SnowPAC, Snowbird UT, 2016 March 13-18
[pdf] - Diemer & Kravtsov, Simulating the dark side of the universe
MindBytes, UChicago RCC, Chicago IL, 2014 October 28
[jpg] - Diemer & Kravtsov, Are halo profiles and concentrations universal?
IAU Symposium 311, Oxford UK, 2014 July 21-25
[pdf] - Diemer & Kravtsov, Non-universality of halo profiles and their scaling with the “virial” radius
Unveiling the formation of massive galaxies, Aspen CO, 2014 February 2-7
[pdf] - Diemer, More, & Kravtsov, The pseudo-evolution of halo mass
Galaxies within the Cosmic Web, Chicago IL, 2013 June 17-20
The physical link between galaxies and their halos, Munich, 2013 June 24-28
[pdf] - Bair, Bernstein, Daley, Diemer & 19 co-authors, Verification and validation of current models of thermonuclear-powered supernovae using large-scale simulations
SciDac, Chattanooga TN, 2010 July 11-15
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Mentions in the press
- UMD Astrophysicist Benedikt Diemer Receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award
(highlight in UMD news)
[UMD press release] - Two Faculty Members Receive 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships
(highlight in UMD newsletter)
[Maryland Today] - Weaving the Fabric of the Universe: How astrophysics and textiles are helping researchers shape dark matter
(interview article about our Fabric of the Universe collaboration)
[ARTpublika Magazine] - The surprising ways art has advanced astronomy
(article about art and science, including the Fabric of the Universe, originally published on UnDark)
[Time Magazine] - “Art’s Desire” and “Hot Tech, Cool Science”
(radio interview about “As Above, As Below” exhibition on brains and cosmic webs)
[KWMR / Julie Motz] - Sketching the stars: how art can advance astronomy
(article about art and science, including the Fabric of the Universe)
[Undark] - NOVA Wonders – What is the Universe made of?
(contributed fact checking and a dark matter simulation movie)
[Watch on PBS] - Sloan Digital Sky Survey Provides New Insight Into Dark Matter Halos
(an article discussing Eric Baxter’s splashback radius paper)
[SciTech Daily]