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Using our 3D Lya radiation transfer code, we compute the radiation transfer of Lya and UV continuum photons including dust. Observational constraints on the neutral gas (column density, kinematics, etc.) are taken from other analysis of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniel Schaerer , Anne Verhamme

EMMA is a cosmological simulation code aimed at investigating the reionization epoch. It handles simultaneously collisionless and gas dynamics, as well as radiative transfer physics using a moment-based description with the M1…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Dominique Aubert , Nicolas Deparis , Pierre Ocvirk

We present an empirical yet physically motivated simulation of realistic Lyman-$\alpha$ emitters (LAEs) at $z\sim2-3$, crucial for ongoing and forthcoming cosmological LAE surveys. We combine an empirical $\mathtt{UniverseMachine}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-01 Hasti Khoraminezhad , Shun Saito , Max Gronke , Chris Byrohl

The Aim of our study is to understand the variety of observed Lyman-alpha (Lya) line profiles and strengths in Lyman Break Galaxies (LBGs) and Lya emitters (LAEs), the physical parameters governing them, and hence deriving constraints on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anne Verhamme , Daniel Schaerer , Hakim Atek , Christian Tapken

Extended Ly$\alpha$ emission is commonly observed around star-forming galaxies, opening a window for probing the neutral hydrogen gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM). In this paper, we develop a prescription of spherically symmetric CGM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-15 Pengfei Li , Zheng Zheng

Lyman-alpha emission from high-redshift galaxies may be a powerful probe of the ionization history of the IGM at z>6: the observed Lyman-alpha emission line is sensitive to the neutral fraction of IGM hydrogen in the range 0.1-1. We present…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael R. Santos

We present a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between galaxies and the intergalactic medium (IGM) during the late stages of cosmic reionization, based on the complete JWST EIGER dataset. Using deep NIRCam $3.5\,\mathrm{\mu m}$…

We present describe a new computer code that solves the radiative transfer problem on multi-resolution grids. If the cloud model is from an MHD simulation on a regular cartesian grid, criteria based for example on local density or velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Juvela , P. Padoan

High-redshift QSO spectra show large spatial fluctuations in the Ly-alpha opacity of the intergalactic medium on surprisingly large scales at z>~5.5. We present a radiative transfer simulation of cosmic reionization driven by galaxies that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Girish Kulkarni , Laura C. Keating , Martin G. Haehnelt , Sarah E. I. Bosman , Ewald Puchwein , Jonathan Chardin , Dominique Aubert

Two methods are developed for solving the steady-state spherically symmetric radiative transfer equation for resonance line radiation emitted by a point source in the Intergalactic Medium. One method is based on solving the ray and moment…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jonathan Higgins , Avery Meiksin

The gamma-ray burst (GRB) 050904 at z = 6.3 provides the first opportunity of probing the intergalactic medium (IGM) by GRBs at the epoch of the reionization. Here we present a spectral modeling analysis of the optical afterglow spectrum…

We propose to infer ionising continuum leaking properties of galaxies by looking at their Lyman-alpha line profiles. We carry out Lyman-alpha radiation transfer calculations in two models of HII regions which are porous to ionising…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Verhamme , I. Orlitova , D. Schaerer , M. Hayes

The inhomogeneous cosmological reionization process leaves tangible imprints in the intergalactic medium down to z=4-5. The Lyman-alpha forest flux power spectrum provides a potentially powerful probe of the epoch of reionization. With the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Renyue Cen , Patrick McDonald , Hy Trac , Abraham Loeb

We present for the first time predictions for UV line emission of intergalactic and circumgalactic gas from Adaptive Mesh Resolution (AMR) Large Scale Structure (LSS) simulations at redshifts 0.3<z<1.2, with specific emphasis on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Frank , Y. Rasera , D. Vibert , B. Milliard , A. Popping , J. Blaizot , S. Courty , J. M. Deharveng , C. Peroux , R. Teyssier , C. D. Martin

This article presents an on-line tool (rttools.irap.omp.eu) and its accompanying software ressources for the numerical solution of basic radiation transfer out of local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE). State-of-the-art stationary iterative…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 J. Lambert , F. Paletou , E. Josselin , J. -M. Glorian

The last few years have seen a dramatic improvement in our understanding of the origin of Lyman alpha absorption systems. Hydrodynamic numerical simulations of cold dark matter dominated universes have shown that the many properties of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 George Efstathiou , Joop Schaye , Tom Theuns

We describe the addition of Lyman-alpha resonant line transfer to our dust continuum radiation transfer code SKIRT, verifying our implementation with published results for spherical problems and using some self-designed three-dimensional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Peter Camps , Christoph Behrens , Maarten Baes , Anand Utsav Kapoor , Robert Grand

The reionization of the second electron of helium shapes the physical state of intergalactic gas at redshifts between 2 < z < 5. Because performing full in situ radiative transfer in hydrodynamic simulations is computationally expensive for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Phoebe Upton Sanderbeck , Simeon Bird

Computationally expensive Radiative Transfer Models (RTMs) are widely used} to realistically reproduce the light interaction with the Earth surface and atmosphere. Because these models take long processing time, the common practice is to…

We present the theoretical framework and numerical methods we have implemented to solve the problem of the generation and transfer of polarized radiation in spectral lines out of local thermodynamical equilibrium, while accounting for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-01 Ernest Alsina Ballester , Luca Belluzzi , Javier Trujillo Bueno