The CIELO Project
The Chemo-dynamIcal propertiEs of gaLaxies and the cOsmic web, Project, CIELO, aims to study the chemical enrichment of baryons in galaxies across the cosmic web by using zoom-in galaxies in different environments. as part of the LACEGAL Network. CIELO was envisaged within LACEGAL and SAN Networks.
Members
and collaborators
Lucas Bignone (IAFE, Argentina)
R. Dominguez-Tenreiro (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid).
N. Padilla (IATE, Argentina)
S. Pedrosa (IAFE, Argentina)
P. Tissera (PUC, Chile)
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P. Cataldi (IAFE)
E. Sillero (PUC)
D. Barrientos (PUC)
C. Casanueva (PUC)
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Students:
J. Gonzalez (PUC)
V. Miranda (PUC)
I. Muñoz (PUC)
B. Tapia (PUC)
B. Silva (PUC)
L. Purcell (PUC)
Collaborators:
Rodriguez, S. S. Varela (PUC) & Lambas, D.G (IATE)
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The simulations
The CIELO have been designed to study the connection between galaxies and their environment across their history of formation. They are planned to include 20 high-resolution zoom-in galaxies selected from different environments. At the moment we have six of them which are being analysed for different projects.
GraduateThesis using CIELO
Publications using CIELO
Catalina Casanueva: PhD 2025
Jenny Gonzalez: PhD 2025
Anell Cornejo: Msc 2024
Rodriguez et al. 2022: We study the impact of the environment on galaxies as they fall in and orbit in the potential well of a Local Group (LG) analogue, following them with high cadence (movies).
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Cataldi et al. 2023: In this work, we aim at investigating the morphology evolution of Milky Way mass-like dark matter haloes selected from the CIELO and ILLUSTRIS-TNG projects
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Casanueva et al. 2024: We develop a model for Primordial Black Holes as a potential component of dark matter and explore their feedback effects on the properties of the gas before star formation occurs.
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Tissera et al. 2025:We present the CIELO project and show the main observed relation determined by the CIELO galaxies.
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Cornejo et al. 2025:Mocking integral field unit observations and metallicity diagnostics from cosmological simulations.
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Tapia-Contreras et al. 2025: Insight into the physical processes that shape the metallicity profiles in galaxies.
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Muñoz-Escolbar et al. 2025: The mass-metallicity relation of bulges.
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