1.2  :  Credits

You are welcome to use the simulation data in these pages for your own scientific purposes without further consultation with the Virgo Consortium or the scientists who generated them. If you use the data in a publication or proposal, please cite the appropriate paper(s):

• The Millennium Simulation: V. Springel et al. 2005, Nature 435, 629
• The Millennium-II Simulation: M. Boylan-Kolchin et al. 2009, submitted to MNRAS; arXiv:0903.3041 [astro-ph]

If you use galaxy data, then you should in addition cite the papers which describe the specific model underlying these data. For the MPA models these papers are:

• De Lucia G. & Blaizot J. 2007 (MNRAS 375, 2; also Croton D. et al. 2006 MNRAS 365, 11) for the DeLucia2006a and DeLucia2006a_SDSS2MASS tables in both the millimil and MPAGalaxies databases,
• Bertone, De Lucia and Thomas 2007 (MNRAS 379, 1143) for the Bertone2007a table in the MPAGalaxies database.

If you use mock galaxy catalogues in MPAMocks for example, then you should look at the documentation for the specific datasets for possible additional credits.

In order to acknowledge GAVO's support in constructing this database facility, we would appreciate inclusion of the following sentence in the `Acknowledgements' section of papers which make significant use of our databases:

"The Millennium Simulation databases used in this paper and the web application providing online access to them were constructed as part of the activities of the German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory."

(replace "Millennium" with "Millennium-II" or add "Millennium-II" if appropriate)

The particular structure of the database design which allows efficient querying for merger trees is described in:
Lemson G. & Springel V. 2006, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XV, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 351, C. Gabriel, C. Arviset, D. Ponz and E. Solano, eds.