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We present new calculations of the inhomogeneous process of cosmological reionization by carefully following the radiative transfer in pre-computed hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation. These new computations represent an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexei O. Razoumov , Michael L. Norman , Tom Abel , Douglas Scott

The stellar stripping of satellites in cluster haloes is understood to play an important role in the production of intracluster light. Increasingly, cosmological simulations have been utilised to investigate its origin and assembly.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-04 G. Martin , F. R. Pearce , N. A. Hatch , A. Contreras-Santos , A. Knebe , W. Cui

We present a suite of high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations to $z=4$ of a $10^{12}\,{\rm M}_{\odot}$ halo at $z=0$, obtained using seven contemporary astrophysical simulation codes widely used in the numerical galaxy formation…

Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation are limited by finite computational resources. We draw from the ongoing rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (specifically Deep Learning) to address this problem. Neural networks have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-10 Yin Li , Yueying Ni , Rupert A. C. Croft , Tiziana Di Matteo , Simeon Bird , Yu Feng

Reionization is thought to have occurred in the redshift range of $6 < z < 9$, which is now being probed by both deep galaxy surveys and CMB observations. Using halo abundance matching over the redshift range $5<z<8$ and assuming smooth,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-04 Guochao Sun , Steven R. Furlanetto

We investigate the spatially-resolved star formation relation using a galactic disk formed in a comprehensive high-resolution (3.8 pc) simulation. Our new implementation of stellar feedback includes ionizing radiation as well as supernova…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-12 Ji-hoon Kim , Mark R. Krumholz , John H. Wise , Matthew J. Turk , Nathan J. Goldbaum , Tom Abel

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

SCORCH (Simulations and Constructions of the Reionization of Cosmic Hydrogen) is a new project to study the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). In this first paper, we probe the connection between observed high-redshift galaxies and simulated dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Hy Trac , Renyue Cen , Philip Mansfield

We present first results from three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of the high redshift formation of dwarf galaxies. The simulations use an Eulerian adaptive mesh refinement technique to follow the non-equilibrium chemistry of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Konstantinos Tassis , Tom Abel , Greg L. Bryan , Michael L. Norman

Cosmic structure simulations have improved enormously over the past decade, both in terms of the resolution which can be achieved, and with the addition of hydrodynamic and other techniques to formerly purely gravitational methods. This is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. M. P. Couchman

Galaxies form and evolve via a multitude of complex physics. In this work, we investigate the role of cosmic ray (CR) feedback in galaxy evolution and reionisation, by examining its impact on the escape of ionising radiation from galaxies.…

We study the impact of numerical parameters on the properties of cold dark matter haloes formed in collisionless cosmological simulations. We quantify convergence in the median spherically-averaged circular velocity profiles for haloes of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-12 Aaron D. Ludlow , Joop Schaye , Richard Bower

We calculate the hydrogen and helium-ionizing radiation escaping star-forming molecular clouds, as a function of the star cluster mass and compactness, using a set of high-resolution radiation-magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-29 Chong-Chong He , Massimo Ricotti , Sam Geen

We use a semi-analytical model to study the impact of reionization, and the associated radiative feedback, on galaxy formation. Two feedback models have been considered: (i) a standard prescription, according to which star formation is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Schneider , R. Salvaterra , T. Roy Choudhury , A. Ferrara , C. Burigana , L. A. Popa

We present a method to construct semi-numerical ``simulations'', which can efficiently generate realizations of halo distributions and ionization maps at high redshifts. Our procedure combines an excursion-set approach with first-order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrei Mesinger , Steven Furlanetto

An ionization front expanding into a neutral medium can be slowed-down significantly by recombinations. In cosmological numerical simulations the recombination rate is often computed using a 'clumping factor', that takes into account that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Milan Raičević , Tom Theuns

We use the photon flux and absorption tracer algorithm presented in Katz et al.~2018, to characterise the contribution of haloes of different mass and stars of different age and metallicity to the reionization of the Universe. We employ a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Harley Katz , Taysun Kimm , Martin G. Haehnelt , Debora Sijacki , Joakim Rosdahl , Jeremy Blaizot

We introduce a new suite of radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation and reionization called Aurora. The Aurora simulations make use of a spatially adaptive radiative transfer technique that lets us accurately capture the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-18 Andreas H. Pawlik , Alireza Rahmati , Joop Schaye , Myoungwon Jeon , Claudio Dalla Vecchia

The sources that reionized the universe are still unknown, but likely candidates are faint but numerous galaxies. In this paper we present results from running a high resolution, uniform volume simulation, the Vulcan, to predict the number…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-10 Lauren Anderson , Fabio Governato , Michael Karcher , Tom Quinn , James Wadsley

The reduced speed of light approximation is used in a variety of simulations of the epoch of reionization and galaxy formation. Its popularity stems from its ability to drastically reduce the computing cost of a simulation, by allowing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 P. Ocvirk , D. Aubert , J. Chardin , N. Deparis , J. Lewis