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We simulate the growth of a Population III stellar system, starting from cosmological initial conditions at z=100. We follow the formation of a minihalo and the subsequent collapse of its central gas to high densities, resolving scales as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 Athena Stacy , Volker Bromm , Aaron T. Lee

In this paper I show that simulations of reionization performed under the Cosmic Reionization On Computers (CROC) project do converge in space and mass, albeit rather slowly. A fully converged solution (for a given star formation and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Nickolay Y. Gnedin

We use Enzo, a hybrid Eulerian AMR/N-body code including non-gravitational heating and cooling, to explore the morphology of the X-ray gas in clusters of galaxies and its evolution in current generation cosmological simulations. We employ…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Tesla E. Jeltema , Eric J. Hallman , Jack O. Burns , Patrick M. Motl

The dynamical history of most merging galaxies is not well understood. Correlations between galaxy interaction and star formation have been found in previous studies, but require the context of the physical history of merging systems for…

To study the dust evolution in the cosmological structure formation history, we perform a smoothed particle hydrodynamic simulation with a dust enrichment model in a cosmological volume. We adopt the dust evolution model that represents the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 Kuan-Chou Hou , Shohei Aoyama , Hiroyuki Hirashita , Kentaro Nagamine , Ikkoh Shimizu

We use a cosmological hydrodynamic simulation calculated with Enzo and the semi-analytic galaxy formation model (SAM) GAMMA to address the chemical evolution of dwarf galaxies in the early universe. The long-term goal of the project is to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Benoit Côté , Devin Silvia , Brian W. O'Shea , Britton Smith , John H. Wise

Galaxy simulations have come a long way from the early days of simple N-body calculations, which considered only gravitational interactions, to the complex, multi-physics models used today. Beginning with initial conditions representative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-15 Robert Feldmann , Rebekka Bieri

Population III (Pop III) stars are the first stars in the Universe, forming from pristine, metal-free gas and marking the end of the cosmic dark ages. Their formation rate is expected to sharply decline after redshift $z \approx 15$ due to…

Cosmological simulations find that pockets of star-forming gas could remain pristine up until the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) due to the inhomogeneous nature of metal mixing and enrichment in the early Universe. Such pristine clouds could…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-01 Lisanne van Veenen , Piyush Sharda , Serena Viti , Shyam H. Menon

We have modelled the process of reionization of the IGM by photoionization by galaxies, in order to predict the epoch of reionization. We use a sophisticated semi-analytic model to track the formation of galaxies. Our study represents a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. J. Benson , Naoshi Sugiyama , Adi Nusser , C. G. Lacey

Cosmological simulations serve as invaluable tools for understanding the Universe. However, the technical complexity and substantial computational resources required to generate such simulations often limit their accessibility within the…

Cosmological simulations are crucial tools in studying the Universe, but they typically do not directly match real observed structures. Constrained cosmological simulations, on the other hand, are designed to match the observed distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-03 Metin Ata , Khee-Gan Lee , Claudio Dalla Vecchia , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Olga Cucciati , Brian C. Lemaux , Daichi Kashino , Thomas Müller

We present a neural-network emulator for the thermal and chemical evolution in Population III star formation. The emulator accurately reproduces the thermochemical evolution over a wide density range spanning 21 orders of magnitude…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-18 Sojun Ono , Kazuyuki Sugimura

Early JWST observations have revealed a high-redshift universe more vibrant than predicted by canonical galaxy-formation models within $\Lambda$CDM, showing an excess of ultraviolet(UV)-bright, massive, and morphologically mature galaxies.…

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

In the Simulations and Constructions of the Reionization of Cosmic Hydrogen (SCORCH) project, we present new radiation-hydrodynamic simulations with updated high-redshift galaxy populations and varying radiation escape fractions. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-14 Aristide Doussot , Hy Trac , Renyue Cen

Using 3D radiative transfer calculations on the reionization of an inhomogeneous universe, QSO absorption line systems are simulated and they are compared with observations of Ly$\alpha$ continuum depression at high redshifts. By this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Umemura , T. Nakamoto , H. Susa

The Universe's dark ages end with the formation of the first generation of galaxies. These objects start emitting ultraviolet radiation that carves out ionized regions around them. After a sufficient number of ionizing sources have formed,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Saleem Zaroubi

Initial density distribution provides a basis for understanding the complete evolution of cosmological density fluctuations. While reconstruction in our local Universe exploits the observations of galaxy surveys with large volumes,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-28 Meng Zhou , Yi Mao

Observations of the Cosmic Dawn (CD) and Epoch of Reionization (EoR) are steadily improving, opening new opportunities to study early galaxies through complementary probes. To enable consistent interpretation of these observations, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Omer Zvi Katz