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We explore the mean and fluctuating redshifted 21 cm signal in numerical simulations of cosmic reionization from the Cosmic Reionization On Computers (CROC) project. We find that the mean signal varies between about $\pm20\rm{mK}$. Most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Alexander A. Kaurov , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

QSO near-zones are an important probe of the the ionization state of the IGM at z ~ 6-7, at the end of reionization. We present here high-resolution cosmological 3D radiative transfer simulations of QSO environments for a wide range of host…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Laura C. Keating , Martin G. Haehnelt , Sebastiano Cantalupo , Ewald Puchwein

We study the reionisation of the Universe by stellar sources using a numerical approach that combines fast 3D radiative transfer calculations with high resolution hydrodynamical simulations. Ionising fluxes for the sources are derived from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Aaron Sokasian , Tom Abel , Lars Hernquist , Volker Springel

The intergalactic medium is expected to clump on scales down to $10^4-10^8$ M$_{\odot}$ before the onset of reionization. The impact of these small-scale structures on reionization is poorly understood despite the modern understanding that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-09 Anson D'Aloisio , Matthew McQuinn , Hy Trac , Christopher Cain , Andrei Mesinger

We present the first calculation of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect due to the inhomogeneus reionization of the universe based on detailed large-scale radiative transfer simulations of reionization. The resulting sky power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-11 Ilian T. Iliev , Ue-Li Pen , J. Richard Bond , Garrelt Mellema , Paul R. Shapiro

We show that numerical simulations of reionization that resolve the Lyman Limit systems (and, thus, correctly count absorptions of ionizing photons) have converged to about 10% level for 5<z<6.2 and are in reasonable agreement (within 10%)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Xiaohui Fan

Patchy reionization leaves a number of imprints on the small-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature fluctuations, the largest of which is the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ), the Doppler shift of CMB photons scattering off…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Simone Ferraro , Kendrick M. Smith

At cosmic recombination, there was supersonic relative motion between baryons and dark matter, which originated from the baryonic acoustic oscillations in the early universe. This motion has been considered to have a negligible impact on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Hyunbae Park , Paul R. Shapiro , Kyungjin Ahn , Naoki Yoshida , Shingo Hirano

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

Of the many probes of reionization, the 21 cm line and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are among the most effective. We examine how the cross-correlation of the 21 cm brightness and the CMB Doppler fluctuations on large angular scales…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-20 Peter Adshead , Steven Furlanetto

We present the first calculation of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect due to the inhomogeneous reionization of the universe based on detailed large-scale radiative transfer simulations of reionization. The resulting sky power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Ilian T. Iliev , Ue-Li Pen , J. Richard Bond , Garrelt Mellema , Paul R. Shapiro

The upcoming SKA1-Low radio interferometer will be sensitive enough to produce tomographic imaging data of the redshifted 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization. Due to the non-Gaussian distribution of the signal, a power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-10 Sambit K. Giri , Garrelt Mellema , Keri L. Dixon , Ilian T. Iliev

We show that various milestones of high-redshift galaxy formation, such as the formation of the first stars or the complete reionization of the intergalactic medium, occurred at different times in different regions of the universe. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-06 Rennan Barkana , Abraham Loeb

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

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

Recently, we have presented the first large-scale radiative transfer simulations of reionization. Here we present new simulations which extend the source halo mass range downward to 10^8M_solar, to capture the full range of halo masses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ilian T. Iliev , Garrelt Mellema , Paul R. Shapiro , Ue-Li Pen

Coupled radiative-hydrodynamics simulations of the epoch of reionization aim to reproduce the propagation of ionization fronts during the transition before the overlap of HII regions. Many of these simulations use moment-based methods to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Nicolas Deparis , Dominique Aubert , Pierre Ocvirk , Jonathan Chardin , Joseph Lewis

We present the prospects of extracting information about the Epoch of Reionization by identifying the remaining neutral regions, referred to as islands, in tomographic observations of the redshifted 21-cm signal. Using simulated data sets…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-23 Sambit K. Giri , Garrelt Mellema , Thomas Aldheimer , Keri L. Dixon , Ilian T. Iliev

We study the reionization history of the Universe in cosmological models with non-Gaussian density fluctuations, taking them to have a renormalized $\chi^2$ probability distribution function parametrized by the number of degrees of freedom,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pedro P. Avelino , Andrew R. Liddle

We study statistics of the 21-cm signal from the epoch of reionization. We propose to use [OIII] line emitting galaxies to cross-correlate with the 21-cm signal from $z = 7 - 10$. To this aim, we employ simulations of reionization obtained…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-11 K. Moriwaki , N. Yoshida , M. B. Eide , B. Ciardi