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Based on cosmological simulations, we model Lyman continuum emission from a sample of 11 high-redshift star forming galaxies spanning a mass range of a factor 20. Each of the 11 galaxies has been simulated both with a Salpeter and a Kroupa…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexei O. Razoumov , Jesper Sommer-Larsen

Though half of cosmic starlight is absorbed by dust and reradiated at long wavelengths (3$\mu$m-3mm), constraints on the infrared through millimeter galaxy luminosity function (the `IRLF') are poor in comparison to the rest-frame…

Cosmic reionization is thought to be primarily fueled by the first generations of galaxies. We examine their stellar and gaseous properties, focusing on the star formation rates and the escape of ionizing photons, as a function of halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-14 Hao Xu , John H. Wise , Michael L. Norman , Kyungjin Ahn , Brian W. O'Shea

A fundamental requirement for reionizing the Universe is that a sufficient fraction of the ionizing photons emitted by galaxies successfully escapes into the intergalactic medium. However, due to the scarcity of high-redshift observational…

Although low-mass star-forming galaxies are the leading candidates of the reionisation process, we cannot conclusively rule out high-mass star-forming galaxies as candidates. While most simulations indicate the former is the best candidate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-22 Callum Witten , Nicolas Laporte , Harley Katz

We study the escape of Lyman continuum radiation from the disks of dwarf starburst galaxies, with and without supershells, by solving the radiation transfer problem of stellar radiation through them. We model disks with Md=10^8-10Msun, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Akimi Fujita , Crystal Martin , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Tom Abel

Galaxies represent one of the preferred candidate sources to drive the reionization of the universe. Even as gains are made in mapping the galaxy UV luminosity density to z>6, significant uncertainties remain regarding the conversion to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-15 R. J. Bouwens , R. Smit , I. Labbe , M. Franx , J. Caruana , P. Oesch , M. Stefanon , N. Rasappu

We present models for dusty high-redshift Lyman alpha emitting galaxies by combining the Press-Schechter formalism with a treatment of inhomogeneous dust distribution inside galaxies. These models reproduce the surface density of emitters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Zoltan Haiman , Marco Spaans

The protagonists of cosmic reionization remain elusive. Faint star-forming galaxies are leading candidates because they are numerous and may have significant ionizing photon escape fractions ($f_{esc}$). Here we update this picture via an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-07 Rohan P. Naidu , Sandro Tacchella , Charlotte A. Mason , Sownak Bose , Pascal A. Oesch , Charlie Conroy

Models are presented for the Lyman alpha emission of dusty high-redshift galaxies by combining the Press-Schechter formalism with a treatment of the inhomogeneous dust distribution inside galaxies. It is found that the amount of Lyman alpha…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Zoltan Haiman , Marco Spaans

In this Letter, we constrain the dust-to-gas ratio in the intergalactic medium (IGM) at high redshifts. We employ models for dust in the local Universe to contrain the dust-to-gas ratio during the epoch of reionization at redshifts z ~…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 Nia Imara , Abraham Loeb

Porous interstellar medium (ISM) structure in galaxies at the epoch of reionization (EoR) gives us a hint to understand what types of galaxies contribute to reionization. Although recent studies have pointed out the positive correlation…

The recent discovery of dusty galaxies well into the Epoch of Reionization (redshift $z>6$) poses challenging questions about the properties of the interstellar medium in these pristine systems. By combining state-of-the-art hydrodynamic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-04 C. Behrens , A. Pallottini , A. Ferrara , S. Gallerani , L. Vallini

Cosmological hydrodynamic simulations have significantly improved over the past several years, and we have already shown that the observed properties of Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) at z=3 can be explained well by the massive galaxies in the…

The demographics of the production and escape of ionizing photons from UV-faint early galaxies is a key unknown in discovering the primary drivers of reionization. With the advent of JWST it is finally possible to observe the rest-frame…

Constraining when and how reionisation began is pivotal for understanding when the first galaxies formed. Lyman-alpha (Ly$\alpha$) emission from galaxies is currently our most promising probe of these early stages. At z>7 the majority of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-25 Ting-Yi Lu , Charlotte Mason , Anne Hutter , Andrei Mesinger , Yuxiang Qin , Daniel P. Stark , Ryan Endsley

We present the predictions for the photometric and emission line properties of galaxies present during the latter stages of reionization from z=8 to 6. These preliminary predictions are made from cosmological hydrodynamic simulations that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Romeel Davé

The escape fraction, f_{esc}, of ionizing photons from high-redshift galaxies is a key parameter to understand cosmic reionization and star formation history. Yet, in spite of many efforts, it remains largely uncertain. We propose a novel,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Sourav Mitra , Andrea Ferrara , T. Roy Choudhury

We present new results on [CII]158$\mu$ m emission from four galaxies in the reionization epoch. These galaxies were previously confirmed to be at redshifts between 6.6 and 7.15 from the presence of the Ly$\alpha$ emission line in their…

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