The Assembling Galaxies Of Resolved Anatomy (AGORA) project, introduced by Kim et al. (2014), aims to compare high-resolution galaxy formation simulations across different high-resolution numerical platforms. The numerical techniques and implementations used in this project include the smoothed particle hydrodynamics codes GADGET and GASOLINE, and the adaptive mesh refinement codes ART, ENZO, and RAMSES. The codes share common initial conditions and common astrophysics packages including UV background, metal-dependent radiative cooling, metal and energy yields of supernovae, and stellar initial mass function. This is a one-of-a-kind, inter-institutional effort by more than 160 participants from over 60 institutions worldwide (as of 2024) to collectively raise the predictive power of numerical galaxy formation simulations.
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