Citation guideline

The ‘entropy plateaus’ paper

You can find the citation handle for the entropy plateaus paper below in bibtex style.

@ARTICLE{2025MNRAS.541.3367A,
       author = {{Altamura}, Edoardo and {Kay}, Scott T. and {Schaye}, Joop and {McCarthy}, Ian G. and {Schaller}, Matthieu},
        title = "{Entropy plateaus can emerge from gas replacement at a characteristic halo mass in simulated groups and clusters of galaxies}",
      journal = {\mnras},
     keywords = {galaxies: clusters: general, galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium, galaxies: evolution, galaxies: formation, galaxies: fundamental parameters, galaxies: groups: general, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics of Galaxies, Computational Physics},
         year = 2025,
        month = aug,
       volume = {541},
       number = {4},
        pages = {3367-3387},
          doi = {10.1093/mnras/staf1106},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
       eprint = {2505.05675},
 primaryClass = {astro-ph.CO},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025MNRAS.541.3367A},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

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The ‘entropy-core problem’ paper

If you are also using results about the entropy-core problem or results at \(z=0\) (equiv. local universe), please also cite Altamura et al. (2023) as follows (bibtex below).

@ARTICLE{2023MNRAS.520.3164A,
        author = {{Altamura}, Edoardo and {Kay}, Scott T. and {Bower}, Richard G. and {Schaller}, Matthieu and {Bah{\'e}}, Yannick M. and {Schaye}, Joop and {Borrow}, Josh and {Towler}, Imogen},
         title = "{EAGLE-like simulation models do not solve the entropy core problem in groups and clusters of galaxies}",
       journal = {\mnras},
      keywords = {hydrodynamics, methods: numerical, software: simulations, galaxies: clusters, galaxies: fundamental parameters, galaxies: groups - tions, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies},
          year = 2023,
         month = apr,
        volume = {520},
        number = {2},
         pages = {3164-3186},
           doi = {10.1093/mnras/stad342},
 archivePrefix = {arXiv},
        eprint = {2210.09978},
  primaryClass = {astro-ph.CO},
        adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023MNRAS.520.3164A},
       adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
 }

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The PhD thesis

If using the topological closure technique to prepare contamination-free initial initial conditions for zoom-in cosmological simulations, please cite the following Ph.D. thesis (bibtex below).

@PHDTHESIS{2023PhDT.........8A,
        author = {{Altamura}, Edoardo},
         title = "{Building models of the Universe with hydrodynamic simulations}",
      keywords = {Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Physics - Computational Physics, Physics - Fluid Dynamics},
        school = {University of Manchester, UK},
          year = 2023,
         month = dec,
        adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023PhDT.........8A},
       adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
 }

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