English

Cosmic Reionization On Computers: Reionization Histories of Present-day Galaxies

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2019-12-02 v2 Astrophysics of 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 z=0z=0 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.

Keywords

Cite

@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