I am working on testing ("ground truthing") common observational astronomy modeling techniques against hydrodynamic simulations. The basic approach is to genera

I am working on testing ("ground truthing") common observational astronomy modeling techniques against hydrodynamic simulations. The basic approach is to generate synthetic/mock observations from the simulations, apply typical model-fitting approaches, and then see how the model results compare with the properties of the original simulations. Our first paper on this has recently been accepted (https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07084 https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07084) and we're preparing a second paper looking at emission from dust in new simulations which more realistically treat the cosmological history of galaxies.