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The hyperfine transition of $^3$He$^+$ at 3.5cm has been thought as a probe of the high-z IGM since it offers a unique insight into the evolution of the helium component of the gas, as well as potentially give an independent constraint on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Shivan Khullar , Qingbo Ma , Philipp Busch , Benedetta Ciardi , Marius B. Eide , Koki Kakiichi

We present results from a large volume simulation of Hydrogen reionization. We combine 3d radiative transfer calculations and an N-body simulation, describing structure formation in the intergalactic medium, to detail the growth of HII…

Cosmic reionization was driven by the imbalance between early sources and sinks of ionizing radiation, both of which were dominated by small-scale structure and are thus usually treated in cosmological reionization simulations by subgrid…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-05 Yi Mao , Jun Koda , Paul R. Shapiro , Ilian T. Iliev , Garrelt Mellema , Hyunbae Park , Kyungjin Ahn , Michele Bianco

The process of reionization is now believed to have proceeded in an orchestrated manner beginning with UV photons emitted by high redshift galaxies containing a large fraction of Population III stars carving out ionised regions around them.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Anze Slosar , Asantha Cooray , Joseph Silk

We describe an approach for incorporating radiative transfer into 3D hydrodynamic cosmological simulations. The method, while approximate, allows for a self-consistent treatment of self-shielding and shadowing, diffuse and point sources of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael L. Norman , Paschalis Paschos , Tom Abel

Radiative transfer calculations are essential for modeling planetary atmospheres. However, standard methods are computationally demanding and impose accuracy-speed trade-offs. High computational costs force numerical simplifications in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Isaac Malsky , Tiffany Kataria , Natasha E. Batalha , Matthew Graham

We present a study of the impact of photoionization feedback from young massive stars on the turbulent statistics of star-forming molecular clouds. This feedback is expected to alter the density structure of molecular clouds and affect…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-09 Nina S. Sartorio , Bert Vandenbroucke , Diego Falceta-Goncalves , Kenneth Wood

The morphology of the total gas and the neutral hydrogen (H I) distributions during the cosmological epoch of reionization can be quantified with Minkowski Functionals (MFs) of isodensity surfaces. We compute the MFs from the output of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Liron Gleser , Adi Nusser , Benedetta Ciardi , Vincent Desjacques

The ultraviolet background (UVB) emitted by quasars and galaxies governs the ionization and thermal state of the intergalactic medium (IGM), regulates the formation of high-redshift galaxies, and is thus a key quantity for modeling cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-20 Jose Oñorbe , Joseph F Hennawi , Zarija Lukić

We perform an analysis of the cosmic reionization in the standard cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm and in alternative dark matter scenarios. Building upon the work of Corasaniti et al. (2017), we predict the reionization history for CDM, for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Isabella P. Carucci , Pier-Stefano Corasaniti

We study how better resolving the cooling length of galactic outflows affect their energetics. We perform radiative-hydrodynamical galaxy formation simulations of an isolated dwarf galaxy ($M_{\star}=10^{8}\, \mathrm{M}_\odot$) with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-13 Martin P. Rey , Harley B. Katz , Alex J. Cameron , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz

Radiative transfer is a fundamental process in astrophysics, essential for both interpreting observations and modeling thermal and dynamical feedback in simulations via ionizing radiation and photon pressure. However, numerically solving…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Rune Rost , Lorenzo Branca , Tobias Buck

The Random Phase Approximation (RPA) for correlation energy in the grid-based projector augmented wave (gpaw) code is accelerated by porting to the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) architecture. The acceleration is achieved by grouping…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-07-31 Jun Yan , Lin Li , Christopher O'Grady

Red supergiants are massive evolved stars that contribute extensively to the chemical enrichment of our Galaxy. It has been shown that convection in those stars gives rise to large granules that cause surface inhomogeneities and shock waves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Chiavassa , B. Freytag , T. Masseron , B. Plez

We simulate the evolution of a 10^9 Msun dark matter halo in a cosmological setting with an adaptive-mesh refinement code as an analogue to local low luminosity dwarf irregular and dwarf spheroidal galaxies. The primary goal of our study is…

In this study, we present a suite of high-resolution numerical simulations of an isolated galaxy to test a sub-grid framework to consistently follow the formation and dissociation of H$_2$ with non-equilibrium chemistry. The latter is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-27 Alessandro Lupi , Stefano Bovino , Pedro R. Capelo , Marta Volonteri , Joseph Silk

The interplay of star formation and supernova (SN) feedback in galaxy formation is a key element for understanding galaxy evolution. Since these processes occur at small scales, it is necessary to have sub-grid models that recover their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-15 Arturo Nuñez-Castiñeyra , Emmanuel Nezri , Julien Devriendt , Romain Teyssier

Photoheating associated with reionization suppressed star formation in low-mass galaxies. Reionization was inhomogeneous, however, affecting different regions at different times. To establish the causal connection between reionization and…

During reionization, the intergalactic medium is heated impulsively by supersonic ionization fronts (I-fronts). The peak gas temperatures behind the I-fronts, $T_\mathrm{reion}$, are a key uncertainty in models of the thermal history after…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Anson D'Aloisio , Matthew McQuinn , Oliver Maupin , Frederick B. Davies , Hy Trac , Spencer Fuller , Phoebe R. Upton Sanderbeck

In this paper we describe and demonstrate a C++ code written to determine the trajectory of particles traversing oriented single crystals and a CUDA code written to evaluate the radiation spectra from charged particles with arbitrary…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-24 Christian Flohr Nielsen