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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

Understanding the formation and evolution of the first stars and galaxies represents one of the most exciting frontiers in astronomy. Since the universe was filled with hydrogen atoms at early times, the most promising probe of the epoch of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Rennan Barkana

One of the next decade's most exciting prospects is to explore the cosmic "dark ages," during which the first stars in the Universe formed, with the 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen. At z>6, this light redshifts into the low-frequency radio…

Population III stars forming in the infant universe at z=30 heralded the end of the cosmic dark ages. They are presumed to be assembled in so-called minihaloes with virial temperatures of a few thousand K where collapse is triggered by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. A. Latif , D. R. G. Schleicher , W. Schmidt , J. Niemeyer

We introduce the Evolution of 21-cm Structure (EOS) project: providing periodic, public releases of the latest cosmological 21-cm simulations. 21-cm interferometry is set to revolutionize studies of the Cosmic Dawn (CD) and epoch of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Andrei Mesinger , Bradley Greig , Emanuele Sobacchi

We study the evolution of ionization fronts around the first proto-galaxies by using high resolution numerical cosmological (Lambda+CDM model) simulations and Monte Carlo radiative transfer methods. We present the numerical scheme in detail…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Ciardi , A. Ferrara , S. Marri , G. Raimondo

Hydrodynamic simulations have become irreplaceable in modern cosmology for exploring complex systems and making predictions to steer future observations. In Chapter 1, we begin with a philosophical discussion on the role of simulations in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-20 Edoardo Altamura

We perform numerical simulations of the growth of a Population III stellar system under photodissociating feedback. We start from cosmological initial conditions at z = 100, self-consistently following the formation of a minihalo at z = 15…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Athena Stacy , Volker Bromm

Astrophysical and cosmological phenomena involve a large variety of physical processes, and can encompass an enormous range of scales. To effectively investigate these phenomena computationally, applications must similarly support modeling…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-03 James Bordner , Michael L. Norman

We present the Technicolor Dawn simulations, a suite of cosmological radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of the first 1.2 billion years. By modeling a spatially-inhomogeneous UVB on-the-fly with 24 frequencies and resolving dark matter halos…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Kristian Finlator , Laura Keating , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer , Romeel Davé , Erik Zackrisson

This paper describes the first steps of development of a new multidimensional time implicit code devoted to the study of hydrodynamical processes in stellar interiors. The code solves the hydrodynamical equations in spherical geometry and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Viallet , I. Baraffe , R. Walder

We model the interstellar dust content of the reionization era with a suite of cosmological, fluid-dynamical simulations of galaxies with stellar masses ranging from $\sim 10^5 - 10^9 M_{\odot}$ in the first $1.2$ billion years of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-24 Clarke J. Esmerian , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

In this chapter we provide an overview of the current status of the simulations and modelling of the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization. We discuss the modelling requirements as dictated by the characteristic scales of the problem and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-20 Ilian T. Iliev , Mario G. Santos , Andrei Mesinger , Suman Majumdar , Garrelt Mellema

Hydrodynamical simulations of stellar interactions require stable models of stars as initial conditions. Such initial models, however, are difficult to construct for giant stars because of the wide range in spatial scales of the hydrostatic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Sebastian T. Ohlmann , Friedrich K. Roepke , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel

Current and upcoming radio interferometric experiments are aiming to make a statistical characterization of the high-redshift 21cm fluctuation signal spanning the hydrogen reionization and X-ray heating epochs of the universe. However,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-19 Nicholas S. Kern , Adrian Liu , Aaron R. Parsons , Andrei Mesinger , Bradley Greig

To date, fully cosmological hydrodynamic disk simulations to redshift zero have only been undertaken with particle-based codes, such as GADGET, Gasoline, or GCD+. In light of the (supposed) limitations of traditional implementations of…

Magnetic fields play an important role in almost all astrophysical phenomena including star formation. But due to the difficulty in analytic modeling and observation, magnetic fields are still poorly studied and numerical simulation has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hao Xu , David C. Collins , Michael L. Norman , Shengtai Li , Hui Li

Large-scale reionization simulations are described which combine the results of cosmological N-body simulations that model the evolving density and velocity fields and identify the galactic halo sources, with ray-tracing radiative transfer…

Motivated by the early excess of bright galaxies seen by JWST, we run zoom-in cosmological simulations of a massive galaxy at Cosmic Dawn, in a halo of $10^{11} M_\odot$ at $z = 9$, using the hydro-gravitational code RAMSES at an effective…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-08 Zachary Lee Andalman , Romain Teyssier , Avishai Dekel

This work studies the connection between the first galaxies and their hosting dark matter halos in the early Universe when Reionization is concluding. Our numerical models (already presented in an earlier study) trace the star formation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-23 Luz Ángela García