Cosmic Reionization On Computers: Reionization Histories of Present-day Galaxies
Abstract
We examine the reionization history of present-day galaxies by explicitly tracing the building blocks of halos from the Cosmic Reionization On Computers project. We track dark matter particles that belong to halos to trace the neutral fractions at corresponding positions during rapid global reionization. The resulting particle reionization histories allow us to explore different definitions of a halo's reionization redshift and to account for the neutral content of the interstellar medium. Consistent with previous work, we find a systematic trend of reionization redshift with mass - present day halos with higher masses have earlier reionization times. Finally, we quantify the spread of reionization times within each halo, which also has a mass dependence.
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@article{arxiv.1903.06179,
title = {Cosmic Reionization On Computers: Reionization Histories of Present-day Galaxies},
author = {Hanjue Zhu and Camille Avestruz and Nickolay Y. Gnedin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.06179},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
7 pages, 5 figures, Accepted to ApJ