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We study the impact of modern stellar atmospheres that take into account the effects of stellar winds, departures from LTE and line blanketing ("CoStar" models) on the ionization structure of HII regions. Results from a large grid of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Grazyna Stasinska , Daniel Schaerer

Reconstruction of the point spread function (PSF) plays an important role in many areas of astronomy, including photometry, astrometry, galaxy morphology, and shear measurement. The atmospheric and instrumental effects are the two main…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-25 Pedro Alonso , Jun Zhang , Cong Liu

We present a detailed analysis of the ionization and thermal structure of the intergalactic medium (IGM) around a high-redshift QSO using a large suite of cosmological, multi-frequency radiative transfer (RT) simulations, exploring the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-18 Koki Kakiichi , Luca Graziani , Benedetta Ciardi , Avery Meiksin , Michele Compostella , Marius B. Eide , Saleem Zaroubi

(Abridged) We present the results of three-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamics simulations of the formation and evolution of early HII/HeIII regions around the first stars. Cooling (by H2 and HD) and recollapse of the gas in the relic HII…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Naoki Yoshida , S. Peng Oh , Tetsu Kitayama , Lars Hernquist

Density inhomogeneity in the intergalactic medium (IGM) can boost the recombination rate of ionized gas substantially, affecting the growth of HII regions during reionization. Previous attempts to quantify this effect typically failed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Hyunbae Park , Paul R. Shapiro , Jun-hwan Choi , Naoki Yoshida , Shingo Hirano , Kyungjin Ahn

High-mass stars form in much richer environments than those associated with isolated low-mass stars, and once they reach a certain mass, produce ionised (HII) regions. The formation of these pockets of ionised gas are unique to the…

We analyze the dynamical expansion of the HII region, photodissociation region, and the swept-up shell, solving the UV- and FUV-radiative transfer, the thermal and chemical processes in the time-dependent hydrodynamics code. Following our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Takashi Hosokawa , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Smoothing operation to make continuous density field from observed point-like distribution of galaxies is crucially important for topological or morphological analysis of the large-scale structure, such as, the genus statistics or the area…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Naoki Seto

We present Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) of NGC 595, one of the most luminous HII regions in M33. This type of observations allows studying the variation of the principal emission-line ratios across the surface of the nebula. At each…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Relano , A. Monreal-Ibero , J. M. Vilchez , R. C. Kennicutt

Star-forming galaxies with nebular HeII emission contain very energetic ionizing sources of radiation, which can be considered as analogs to the major contributors of the reionization of the Universe in early epochs. It is therefore of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-11 E. Pérez-Montero , C. Kehrig , J. M. Vílchez , R. García-Benito , S. Duarte Puertas , J. Iglesias-Páramo

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 properties of molecular clouds associated with 10 HII regions were studied using CO observations. We identified 142 dense clumps within our sample and found that our sources are divided into two categories: those with clumps that show a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Mohaddesseh Azimlu , Michel Fich

Semi-analytic models are a valuable tool to study the first stars and galaxies. Their numerical efficiency makes it possible to survey broad regions of astrophysical parameter space across large volumes and redshift ranges. Following…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-08 Thomas Behling , Ryan Hazlett , Mihir Kulkarni , Eli Visbal

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…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-06 Yunwei Deng , Hui Li , Rahul Kannan , Aaron Smith , Mark Vogelsberger , Greg L. Bryan

We investigate the galaxy properties of $\sim$400 low-mass ($<10^9\,M_{\odot}$) H$\alpha$ emitters (HAEs) at z $\sim$ 2.3 in the ZFOURGE survey. The selection of these HAEs is based on the excess in the observed $K_s$ broad-band flux…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-07 Nuo Chen , Kentaro Motohara , Lee Spitler , Kimihiko Nakajima , Yasunori Terao

This paper investigates the gravitational trapping of HII regions predicted by steady-state analysis using radiation hydrodynamical simulations. We present idealised spherically symmetric radiation hydrodynamical simulations of the early…

We present measurements of the large-scale (~40 comoving Mpc) effective optical depth of HeII Ly$\alpha$ absorption, $\tau_{\rm eff}$, at 2.54<z<3.86 toward 16 HeII-transparent quasars observed with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-01 Gábor Worseck , Frederick B. Davies , Joseph F. Hennawi , J. Xavier Prochaska

We study the morphologies and sizes of galaxies at z>5 using high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations from the Feedback In Realistic Environments project. The galaxies show a variety of morphologies, from compact to clumpy to…

In the next decade, radio telescopes like the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will explore the Universe at high redshift, and particularly during the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR). The first structures emerged during this epoch, and their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Emilie Thélie , Dominique Aubert , Nicolas Gillet , Julien Hiegel , Pierre Ocvirk

We have developed a robust, automated method, hereafter designated HIIphot, which enables accurate photometric characterization of HII regions while permitting genuine adaptivity to irregular source morphology. HIIphot utilizes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 David A. Thilker , Robert Braun , Rene A. M. Walterbos