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We present a new, on-the-fly photon flux and absorption tracer algorithm designed to directly measure the contribution of different source populations to the metagalactic UV background and to the ionisation fraction of gas in the Universe.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Harley Katz , Taysun Kimm , Martin Haehnelt , Debora Sijacki , Joakim Rosdahl , Jeremy Blaizot

The neutral hydrogen (HI) and its 21 cm line are promising probes to the reionization process of the intergalactic medium (IGM). To use this probe effectively, it is imperative to have a good understanding on how the neutral hydrogen traces…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Wenxiao Xu , Yidong Xu , Bin Yue , Ilian T Iliev , Hy Trac , Liang Gao , Xuelei Chen

We introduce a new suite of radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation and reionization called Aurora. The Aurora simulations make use of a spatially adaptive radiative transfer technique that lets us accurately capture the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-18 Andreas H. Pawlik , Alireza Rahmati , Joop Schaye , Myoungwon Jeon , Claudio Dalla Vecchia

The early star-forming Universe is still poorly constrained, with the properties of high-redshift stars, the first heating sources, and reionization highly uncertain. This leaves observers planning 21-cm experiments with little theoretical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-22 Aviad Cohen , Anastasia Fialkov , Rennan Barkana , Matan Lotem

Creating a database of 21cm brightness temperature signals from the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) for an array of reionisation histories is a complex and computationally expensive task, given the range of astrophysical processes involved and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Florian List , Geraint F. Lewis

The 21cm background from the epoch of reionization is a promising cosmological probe: line-of-sight velocity fluctuations distort redshift, so brightness fluctuations in Fourier space depend upon angle, which linear theory shows can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-17 Paul R. Shapiro , Yi Mao , Ilian T. Iliev , Garrelt Mellema , Kanan K. Datta , Kyungjin Ahn , Jun Koda

The 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is expected to be detected in the next few years, either with existing instruments or by the upcoming SKA and HERA projects. In this context there is a pressing need for publicly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Benoit Semelin , Evan Eames , Florian Bolgar , Michel Caillat

Electromagnetic radiation plays a crucial role in various physical and chemical processes. Hence, almost all astrophysical simulations require some form of radiative transfer model. Despite many innovations in radiative transfer algorithms…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Frederik De Ceuster , Thomas Ceulemans , Jon Cockayne , Leen Decin , Jeremy Yates

The evolution of topology and morphology of ionized or neutral hydrogen during different stages of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) have the potential to provide us a great amount of information about the properties of the ionizing sources…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Aadarsh Pathak , Satadru Bag , Saswata Dasgupta , Suman Majumdar , Rajesh Mondal , Mohd Kamran , Prakash Sarkar

We produce simulations of emission of the atomic CII line in large sky fields in order to determine the current prospects for mapping this line during the high redshift Epoch of Reionization. We estimate the CII line intensity, redshift…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-22 Marta B. Silva , Mário G. santos , Asantha Cooray , Yan Gong

We propose an algorithm for distributed optimization over time-varying communication networks. Our algorithm uses an optimized ratio between the number of rounds of communication and gradient evaluations to achieve fast convergence. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Bryan Van Scoy , Laurent Lessard

We propose a deep learning analyzing technique with convolutional neural network (CNN) to predict the evolutionary track of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) from the 21-cm differential brightness temperature tomography images. We use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Yungi Kwon , Sungwook E. Hong , Inkyu Park

In this paper, we present the formalism of simulating Lyman-$\alpha$ emission and polarization around reionization ($z$ = 8) from a plane-parallel ionization front. We accomplish this by using a Monte Carlo method to simulate the production…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Yuanyuan Yang , Emily Koivu , Chenxiao Zeng , Heyang Long , Christopher M. Hirata

The timeline of cosmic reionization remains uncertain despite sustained efforts to study how the ionizing output of early galaxies shaped the intergalactic medium (IGM). Using the semi-numerical code LIMFAST, we investigate the prospects…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Guochao Sun , Adam Lidz , Tzu-Ching Chang , Jordan Mirocha , Steven R. Furlanetto

We describe an extension of the Enzo code to enable fully-coupled radiation hydrodynamical simulation of inhomogeneous reionization in large $\sim (100 Mpc)^3$ cosmological volumes with thousands to millions of point sources. We solve all…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Michael L. Norman , Daniel R. Reynolds , Geoffrey C. So , Robert P. Harkness , John H. Wise

The redshifted 21-cm line of distant neutral H atoms provides a probe of the cosmic ``dark ages'' and the epoch of reionization (``EOR'') which ended them. The radio continuum produced by this redshifted line can be seen in absorption or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Paul R. Shapiro , Ilian T. Iliev , Garrelt Mellema , Ue-Li Pen , Hugh Merz

We show that the algorithm based on the weighted essentially nonoscillatory (WENO) scheme with anti-diffusive flux corrections can be used as a solver of the radiative transfer equations. This algorithm is highly stable and robust for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jing-Mei Qiu , Chi-Wang Shu , Long-Long Feng , Li-Zhi Fang

We use large-scale simulations to investigate the morphology of reionization during the final, overlap phase. Our method uses an efficient three-dimensional smoothing technique which takes into account the finite mean free path due to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-27 Marcelo A. Alvarez , Tom Abel

The observed 21-cm signal from the epoch of reionization will be distorted along the line-of-sight by the peculiar velocities of matter particles. These redshift-space distortions will affect the contrast in the signal and will also make it…

We highlight recent progress in the sophistication and diversification of cosmic dawn and reionization simulations. The application of these modeling tools to current observations has allowed us narrow down the timing of reionization, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Andrei Mesinger