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In recent years there has been considerable progress in our understanding of the nature and properties of the reionization process. In particular, the numerical simulations of this epoch have made a qualitative leap forward, reaching…

Three non-equilibrium photoionisation algorithms for hydrodynamical grid-based simulation codes are compared in terms of accuracy, timestepping criteria, and parallel scaling. Explicit methods with first-order time accuracy for photon…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-03-09 Jonathan Mackey

A new parametrization of the reionization history is presented to facilitate robust comparisons between different observations and with theory. The evolution of the ionization fraction with redshift can be effectively captured by specifying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Hy Trac

We explore the impact of incorporating physically motivated ionisation and recombination rates on the history and topology of cosmic reionisation, by incorporating inputs from small-volume hydrodynamic simulations into a semi-numerical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-08 Sultan Hassan , Romeel Davé , Kristian Finlator , Mario G. Santos

The process of heating and reionization of the Universe at high redshift links small scale structures/galaxy formation and large scale inter-galactic medium properties. Even if the first one is difficult to observe, an observation window is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-05 Nicolas J. F. Gillet , Dominique Aubert , Florent G. Mertens , Pierre Ocvirk

High-redshift 21-cm observations will provide crucial insights into the physical processes of the Epoch of Reionization. Next-generation interferometers such as the Square Kilometer Array will have enough sensitivity to directly image the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Simon Gazagnes , Léon V. E. Koopmans , Michael H. F. Wilkinson

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

Cosmological simulations of reionization often treat radiative transfer by solving for the monopole and dipoles of the intensity field and by making ansatz for the quadrupole moments to close the system of equations. We investigate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Xiaohan Wu , Matthew McQuinn , Daniel Eisenstein

Aiming to correctly restore the redshifted 21 cm signals emitted by the neutral hydrogen during the cosmic reionization processes, we re-examine the separation approaches based on the quadratic polynomial fitting technique in frequency…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jingying Wang , Haiguang Xu , Tao An , Junhua Gu , Xueying Guo , Weitian Li , Yu Wang , Chengze Liu , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Xiang-Ping Wu

Efficient and accurate simulations of the reionization epoch are crucial to exploring the vast uncharted parameter space that will soon be constrained by measurements of the 21 cm power spectrum. One of these parameters, $R_{\rm max}$, is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Frederick B. Davies , Steven R. Furlanetto

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 Runyu Zhu , Yidong Xu , Bin Yue , Xuelei Chen

The 21 cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization should be observed within the next decade. While a simple statistical detection is expected with SKA pathfinders, the SKA will hopefully produce a full 3D mapping of the signal. To extract…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-28 Hayato Shimabukuro , Benoit Semelin

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

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Nicolas Deparis , Dominique Aubert , Pierre Ocvirk , Jonathan Chardin , Joseph Lewis

We use the photon flux and absorption tracer algorithm presented in Katz et al.~2018, to characterise the contribution of haloes of different mass and stars of different age and metallicity to the reionization of the Universe. We employ a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Harley Katz , Taysun Kimm , Martin G. Haehnelt , Debora Sijacki , Joakim Rosdahl , Jeremy Blaizot

Hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation such as the Illustris simulations have progressed to a state where they approximately reproduce the observed stellar mass function from high to low redshift. This in principle allows…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-01 Andreas Bauer , Volker Springel , Mark Vogelsberger , Shy Genel , Paul Torrey , Debora Sijacki , Dylan Nelson , Lars Hernquist

We present the algorithm and main results of our semi-numerical simulation, islandFAST, which is developed from the 21cmFAST and designed for the late stage of reionization. The islandFAST predicts the evolution and size distribution of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 Yidong Xu , Bin Yue , Xuelei Chen

Interpreting 21cm measurements from current and upcoming experiments like HERA and the SKA will provide new scientific insights and exciting implications for astrophysics and cosmology regarding the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-03 Yihao Zhou , Paul La Plante

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

We explore the ability of observations of the global brightness temperature of the 21-cm signal to constrain the reionization history and the properties of the ionizing sources. In order to describe the reionization signal, we employ either…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Andrea Morandi , Rennan Barkana