Simulation of the Cosmic Evolution of Atomic and Molecular Hydrogen in
  Galaxies
  We present a simulation of the cosmic evolution of the atomic and molecular
phases of the cold hydrogen gas in about 3e7 galaxies, obtained by
post-processing the virtual galaxy catalog produced by (De Lucia et al. 2007)
on the Millennium Simulation of cosmic structure (Springel et al. 2005). Our
method uses a set of physical prescriptions to assign neutral atomic hydrogen
(HI) and molecular hydrogen (H2) to galaxies, based on their total cold gas
masses and a few additional galaxy properties. These prescriptions are
specially designed for large cosmological simulations, where, given current
computational limitations, individual galaxies can only be represented by
simplistic model-objects with a few global properties. Our recipes allow us to
(i) split total cold gas masses between HI, H2, and Helium, (ii) assign
realistic sizes to both the HI- and H2-disks, and (iii) evaluate the
corresponding velocity profiles and shapes of the characteristic radio emission
lines. The results presented in this paper include the local HI- and H2-mass
functions, the CO-luminosity function, the cold gas mass--diameter relation,
and the Tully-Fisher relation (TFR), which all match recent observational data
from the local Universe. We also present high-redshift predictions of cold gas
diameters and the TFR, both of which appear to evolve markedly with redshift.
