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The calibrations linking observed luminosities to the star formation rate depend on the assumed stellar population synthesis model, initial mass function, star formation and metal enrichment history, and whether reprocessing by dust and gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-23 Stephen M. Wilkins , Christopher C. Lovell , Elizabeth R. Stanway

We introduce Copernicus Complexio (COCO), a high-resolution cosmological N-body simulation of structure formation in the $\Lambda{\rm CDM}{}$ model. COCO follows an approximately spherical region of radius $\sim 17.4h^{-1}\,{\rm Mpc}$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Wojciech A. Hellwing , Carlos S. Frenk , Marius Cautun , Sownak Bose , John Helly , Adrian Jenkins , Till Sawala , Maciej Cytowski

The 21-cm power spectrum of reionization is a promising probe for cosmology and fundamental physics. Exploiting this new observable, however, requires fast predictors capable of efficiently scanning the very large parameter space of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Aurel Schneider , Timothée Schaeffer , Sambit K. Giri

We develop a machine learning approach to reconstructing the cosmological initial conditions from late-time dark matter halo number density fields in redshift space, with the goal of improving sensitivity to cosmological parameters, and in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Jelte Bottema , Thomas Flöss , P. Daniel Meerburg

In this work we present a new hybrid method to simulate the thermal effects of the reionization in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. The method improves upon the standard approach used in simulations of the intergalactic medium (IGM)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-11 Jose Oñorbe , F. B. Davies , Z. Lukić , J. F. Hennawi , D. Sorini

In this study, we perform a halo-finder code comparison between Rockstar and CompaSO. Based on our previous analysis aiming at quantifying resolution of $N$-body simulations by exploiting large (up to $N=4096^3$) simulations of scale-free…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-07 Sara Maleubre , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Lehman H. Garrison , Michael Joyce

Plasmoid-mediated fast magnetic reconnection plays a fundamental role in driving explosive dynamics and heating, but relatively little is known about how it develops in partially ionised plasmas (PIP) of the solar chromosphere. Partial…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Giulia Murtas , Andrew Hillier , Ben Snow

We have modelled the process of reionization of the IGM by photoionization by galaxies, in order to predict the epoch of reionization. We use a sophisticated semi-analytic model to track the formation of galaxies. Our study represents a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. J. Benson , Naoshi Sugiyama , Adi Nusser , C. G. Lacey

Cosmic reionization marks a critical epoch when the first galaxies ionized the intergalactic medium through the escape of Lyman continuum (LyC) radiation. Young, massive star clusters are believed to be the primary LyC sources, yet the…

The Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins (PICO) is a NASA-funded study of a Probe-class mission concept. The top-level science objectives are to probe the physics of the Big Bang by measuring or constraining the energy scale of inflation,…

We introduce a new code for computing time-dependent continuum radiative transfer and non-equilibrium ionization states in static density fields with periodic boundaries. Our code solves the moments of the radiative transfer equation,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Finlator , F. Ozel , R. Dave

Current and upcoming radio interferometric experiments are aiming to make a statistical characterization of the high-redshift 21cm fluctuation signal spanning the hydrogen reionization and X-ray heating epochs of the universe. However,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-19 Nicholas S. Kern , Adrian Liu , Aaron R. Parsons , Andrei Mesinger , Bradley Greig

More than half of the atoms in the Universe recombined via forbidden transitions, so that accurate treatment of the forbidden channels is important in order to follow the cosmological recombination process with the level of precision…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Wan Yan Wong , Douglas Scott

Rapid parameter estimation of gravitational waves from binary neutron star coalescence, in particular accurate sky localisation in minutes after the initial detection stage, is crucial for the success of multi-messenger observations. One of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-24 Soichiro Morisaki , Vivien Raymond

Modelling galaxy formation in hydrodynamic simulations has increasingly adopted various radiative transfer methods to account for photoionization feedback from young massive stars. However, the evolution of HII regions around stars begins…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-06 Yunwei Deng , Hui Li , Rahul Kannan , Aaron Smith , Mark Vogelsberger , Greg L. Bryan

Cosmic Dawn ("CoDa") II yields the first statistically-meaningful determination of the relative contribution to reionization by galaxies of different halo mass, from a fully-coupled radiation-hydrodynamics simulation of the epoch of…

We discuss the role of recombinations in the IGM, and the related concept of the clumping factor, during cosmic reionization. The clumping factor is, in general, a local quantity that depends on the local over-density and the scale below…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Alexander A. Kaurov , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

This paper presents an implementation of radio astronomy imaging algorithms on modern High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructures, exploiting distributed memory parallelism and acceleration throughout multiple GPUs. Our code, called…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-13 Emanuele De Rubeis , Giovanni Lacopo , Claudio Gheller , Luca Tornatore , Giuliano Taffoni

We present the public Monte Carlo photoionization and moving-mesh radiation hydrodynamics code CMacIonize, which can be used to simulate the self-consistent evolution of HII regions surrounding young O and B stars, or other sources of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Bert Vandenbroucke , Kenneth Wood

Redshifted 21cm measurements of the structure of ionised regions that grow during reionization promise to provide a new probe of early galaxy and structure formation. One of the challenges of modelling reionization is to account both for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-16 Han-Seek Kim , J. Stuart B. Wyithe , Jaehong Park , Gregory B. Poole , C. G. Lacey , C. M. Baugh