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We present a new method for modeling inhomogeneous cosmic reionization on large scales. Utilizing high-resolution radiation-hydrodynamic simulations with 2048^3 dark matter particles, 2048^3 gas cells, and 17 billion adaptive rays in a L =…

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Coupled radiative-hydrodynamics simulations of the epoch of reionization aim to reproduce the propagation of ionization fronts during the transition before the overlap of HII regions. Many of these simulations use moment-based methods to…

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Observations are beginning to constrain the history of the epoch of reionization (EoR). Modeling the reionization process is indispensable to interpret the observations, to infer the properties of ionizing sources, and to probe the various…

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Cosmic reionization holds the key to understand structure formation in the Universe, and can inform us about the properties of the first sources, as their star formation efficiency and escape fraction of ionizing photons. By combining the…

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The cosmic reionization of hydrogen was the last major phase transition in the evolution of the universe, which drastically changed the ionization and thermal conditions in the cosmic gas. To the best of our knowledge today, this process…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-03 Hy Trac , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

The goal of searching back in cosmic time to find star formation during the epoch of reionization will soon be within reach. We assess the detectability of high-redshift galaxies by combining cosmological hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy…

We present predictions drawn from cosmological hydrodynamic simulations for the physical, photometric and emission line properties of galaxies present during the latter stages of reionization from z=9-6. We find significant numbers of…

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The process of reionization is now believed to have proceeded in an orchestrated manner beginning with UV photons emitted by high redshift galaxies containing a large fraction of Population III stars carving out ionised regions around them.…

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We present a new suite of late-end reionization simulations performed with ATON-HE, a revised version of the GPU-based radiative transfer code ATON that includes helium. The simulations are able to reproduce the Ly$\alpha$ flux distribution…

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We compare the results from several sets of cosmological simulations of cosmic reionization, produced under Cosmic Reionization On Computers (CROC) project, with existing observational data on the high-redshift Ly-alpha forest and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Alexander A. Kaurov

The Lyman-$\alpha$ forest opacity fluctuations observed from high-redshift quasar spectra have been proven to be extremely successful in order to probe the late phase of the reionization epoch. For ideal modeling of these opacity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Barun Maity , Frederick Davies , Prakash Gaikwad

We develop an effective perturbation theory (and, equivalently, a bias expansion) for the inhomogeneous 21cm radiation field from reionization. Using large-scale simulations of cosmological reionization, we find that this expansion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-20 Matthew McQuinn , Anson D'Aloisio

We describe a new methodology to analyze the reionization process in numerical simulations: The evo- lution of the reionization is investigated by focusing on the merger histories of individual HII regions. From the merger tree of ionized…

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We investigate the detectability of Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) emission from galaxies at the onset of cosmic reionization, aiming to understand the conditions necessary for detecting high-redshift sources like JADES-GS-z13-1-LA at $z=13$.…

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High-redshift QSO spectra show large spatial fluctuations in the Ly-alpha opacity of the intergalactic medium on surprisingly large scales at z>~5.5. We present a radiative transfer simulation of cosmic reionization driven by galaxies that…

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Emission lines in hydrogen can be used to measure the approximate redshift of the reionization of the universe. This is an important measurement given the lack of a convincing theoretical prediction of this epoch. There is a rapid change in…

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Comparison of the observed evolution of the Ly-alpha transmitted flux in the spectra of four highest redshift quasars discovered by SLOAN survey with the theoretical prediction for this evolution based on the state-of-the-art numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nickolay Y. Gnedin

The epoch of hydrogen reionization is complete by $z=5$, but its progression at higher redshifts is uncertain. Measurements of Ly$\alpha$ forest opacity show large scatter at $z<6$, suggestive of spatial fluctuations in neutral fraction…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-05 Caitlin C. Doughty , Joseph F. Hennawi , Jose Oñorbe , Frederick B. Davies , Zarija Lukić

We present an analysis of the evolution of the Lyman-series forest into the epoch of reionization using cosmological radiative transfer simulations in a scenario where reionization ends late. We explore models with different midpoints of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Laura C. Keating , Girish Kulkarni , Martin G. Haehnelt , Jonathan Chardin , Dominique Aubert

Observations of high-redshift Ly-alpha sources are a major tool for studying the high-redshift Universe. We discuss the effect of the reionizing intergalactic medium on the observability of Ly-alpha sources based on large simulations of…

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