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Shaun Cole answer a few questions
about his new hot paper in the field of Space Science.
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"Hierarchical
galaxy formation,"
by Cole,
S;Lacey, CG;Baugh, CM;Frenk, CS,
Journal: MON NOTIC
ROY ASTRON SOC, Volume: 319 Page: 168-204, Year:
NOV 21 2000
[Authors' affiliation:
4 international
institutions]. |
Why do you think your paper is highly cited?
We (alongside an
independent group in Munich [G. Kauffmann et al])
were pioneers in
developing a new method of modelling galaxy formation in
an evolving cosmological setting. The first papers by
both our group and the Munich group were in the early
1990s. Since then the models have become more
sophisticated and also many other groups have emulated
and improved upon our early work—most notably the group
that began in Santa Cruz [R. S. Somerville et al].
The value of our highly cited 2000 paper is that it
fully describes and explains all the details of our
sophisticated second-generation
model. The consequence of this is that it is
cited as a place where one can find out about the
methodology of these galaxy formation models by us, by
most of the other groups that have developed similar
models and by observers who compare these models with
their data.
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