Dark MaGICC: the effect of Dark Energy on galaxy formation. Cosmology does matter

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We present the Dark MaGICC project, which aims to investigate the effect of Dark Energy (DE) modeling on galaxy formation via hydrodynamical cosmological simulations.

• Dark MaGICC includes four dynamical Dark Energy scenarios with time varying equations of state, one with a self-interacting Ratra-Peebles model.
• In each scenario we simulate three galaxies with high resolution using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH).
• The baryonic physics model is the same used in the Making Galaxies in a Cosmological Context (MaGICC) project, and we varied only the background cosmology.