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Using cosmological simulations that incorporate gas dynamics and gravitational forces, we investigate the influence of photoionization by a UV radiation background on the formation of galaxies. In our highest resolution simulations, we find…

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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…

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We use hydrodynamic cosmological simulations in a 9.6 Mpc box to explore the evolution of the intergalactic medium (IGM) transmissivity from z=2 through the epoch of reionization. Reionization is achieved through an ultraviolet background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pascal Paschos , Michael L. Norman

Using the largest cosmological reionization simulation to-date (~24 billion particles), we use the genus curve to quantify the topology of neutral hydrogen distribution on scales > 1 Mpc as it evolves during cosmological reionization. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-02 Khee-Gan Lee , Renyue Cen , J. Richard Gott , Hy Trac

We present a semi-analytic model for the thermal and ionization history of the universe at 1000 >~ z >~ 3. This model incorporates much of the essential physics included in full-scale hydrodynamical simulations, such as (1) gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Weihsueh A. Chiu , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We present self-consistent radiation hydrodynamic simulations of hydrogen reionization performed with Arepo-RT complemented by a state-of-the-art galaxy formation model. We examine how photoheating feedback, due to reionization, shapes the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-25 Xiaohan Wu , Rahul Kannan , Federico Marinacci , Mark Vogelsberger , Lars Hernquist

We present the Technicolor Dawn simulations, a suite of cosmological radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of the first 1.2 billion years. By modeling a spatially-inhomogeneous UVB on-the-fly with 24 frequencies and resolving dark matter halos…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Kristian Finlator , Laura Keating , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer , Romeel Davé , Erik Zackrisson

We trace the evolution of cosmic microwave background photons propagating through a reionized model universe. The reionization of the intergalactic medium is achieved by UV photons emitted from the decaying `hot' dark matter neutrinos. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Robin Tuluie , Richard A. Matzner , Peter Anninos

We compare numerical methods for solving the radiative transfer equation in the context of the photoionization of intergalactic gaseous hydrogen and helium by a central radiating source. Direct integration of the radiative transfer equation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Ka-Hou Leong , Avery Meiksin , Althea Lai , K. H. To

We examine the reionization history of present-day galaxies by explicitly tracing the building blocks of halos from the Cosmic Reionization On Computers project. We track dark matter particles that belong to $z=0$ halos to trace the neutral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-02 Hanjue Zhu , Camille Avestruz , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

The temporal evolution of the ionizing UV background radiation field at high redshift provides a probe of the evolution of the early star formation rate. By comparing the observed levels of absorption in the highest redshift quasar spectra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Renyue Cen , Patrick McDonald

Reionization is one of the least understood processes in the evolution history of the Universe, mostly because of the numerous astrophysical processes occurring simultaneously about which we do not have a very clear idea so far. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Purba Mukherjee , Antara Dey , Supratik Pal

The first, self-consistent calculations are presented of the cosmological, H2-dissociating UV background produced during the epoch of reionization by the sources of reionization. Large-scale radiative transfer simulations of reionization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Kyungjin Ahn , Paul R. Shapiro , Ilian T. Iliev , Garrelt Mellema , Ue-Li Pen

We present semi-analytic models of the epoch of reionization focusing on the differences between continuous and bursty star formation (SF). Our model utilizes physically motivated analytic fits to 1D radiative transfer simulations of HII…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Blake Hartley , Massimo Ricotti

Frequency-dependent/hybrid approaches for stellar irradiation are of primary importance in numerical simulations of massive star formation. We seek to compare outflow and accretion mechanisms in star formation simulations. We investigate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 R. Mignon-Risse , M. González , B. Commerçon , J. Rosdahl

A self-consistent formalism to jointly study cosmic reionization and thermal history of the IGM is presented. The model implements most of the relevant physics governing these processes, such as the inhomogeneous IGM density distribution,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Roy Choudhury , A. Ferrara

We investigate the impact of ionizing external ultraviolet (UV) radiation on low-mass haloes ($M_{h}<10^{10}M_\odot$) at high redshift using $1140M_\odot$ baryonic resolution zoom-in simulations of seven regions from the THESAN-ZOOM…

We present the first radiative transfer (RT) model of a non-edge-on disk galaxy in which the large-scale geometry of stars and dust is self-consistently derived through fitting of multiwavelength imaging observations from the UV to the…

Given that the reionization history of cosmic hydrogen is yet to be stringently constrained, it is worth checking the prospects of doing so using physically motivated models and available observational data. For this purpose, we use an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-04 Barun Maity , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

Early galaxies were the radiation source for reionization, with the photoheating feedback from the reionization process expected to reduce the efficiency of star formation in low mass haloes. Hence, to fully understand reionization and…