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Recent JWST observations at $z > 6$ may imply galactic ionizing photon production above prior expectations. Under observationally motivated assumptions about escape fractions, these suggest a $z \sim 8-9$ end to reionization, in tension…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-15 Christopher Cain , Garett Lopez , Anson D'Aloisio , Julian B. Munoz , Rolf A. Jansen , Rogier A. Windhorst , Nakul Gangolli

We compare the predictions of four different algorithms for the distribution of ionized gas during the Epoch of Reionization. These algorithms are all used to run a 100 Mpc/h simulation of reionization with the same initial conditions. Two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Oliver Zahn , Andrei Mesinger , Matthew McQuinn , Hy Trac , Renyue Cen , Lars E. Hernquist

We propose use of the thickness of the ionisation front as a discriminant between alternative modes of reionisation in the early universe, by stars or by miniquasars. Assuming a photoionisation-recombination balance, we find that for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Saleem Zaroubi , Joseph Silk

The first sources of ionizing radiation to condense out of the dark and neutral IGM sent ionization fronts sweeping outward through their surroundings, overtaking other condensed objects and photoevaporating them. This feedback of universal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul R. Shapiro , Alejandro C. Raga

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

This is the second paper in a series whose aim is to predict the power spectrum of intensity and polarized intensity from cosmic reionization fronts. After building the analytic models for intensity and polarized intensity calculations in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Emily Koivu , Heyang Long , Yuanyuan Yang , Christopher M. Hirata

High-resolution numerical simulations including feedback and aimed at calculating the escape fraction (fesc) of hydrogen-ionizing photons often assume stellar radiation based on single-stellar population synthesis models. However, strong…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-30 Amy Secunda , Renyue Cen , Taysun Kimm , Ylva Gotberg , Selma E. de Mink

The physics of baryons in halos, and their subsequent influence on the total matter phase space, has a rich phenomenology and must be well understood in order to pursue a vast set of questions in both cosmology and astrophysics. We use the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-21 Mufan Shao , Dhayaa Anbajagane , Chihway Chang

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) constraints on dark matter annihilation are a uniquely powerful tool in the quest to understand the nature of dark matter. Annihilation of dark matter to Standard Model particles between recombination and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Daniel Green , P. Daniel Meerburg , Joel Meyers

Motivated by the WMAP results indicating an early epoch of reionization, we consider alternative cosmic star formation models which are capable of reionizing the early intergalactic medium. We develop models which include an early burst of…

We present the first predictions for the $L_{\rm [CII]}$ - SFR relation and [CII] luminosity function (LF) in the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) based on cosmological hydrodynamics simulations using the SIMBA suite plus radiative transfer…

Full radiative transfer in 3D space has been solved to pursue the reionization history in an inhomogeneous universe. It has been shown that the reionization of an inhomogeneous universe is not a prompt event, but a fairly slow process.…

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

While cosmic reionization has been broadly constrained by global observables, the interplay between internal sources (Milky Way, M31, and their satellites) and external ionization fronts remains poorly understood in a realistic Local Group…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 David Attard , Luke Conaboy , Noam Libeskind , Sergey Pillipenko , Keri Dixon , Ilian T. Iliev

Reionization represents an important phase in the history of our Universe when ultraviolet radiation from the first luminous sources, primarily stars and accreting black holes, ionized the neutral hydrogen atoms in the intergalactic medium…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-18 Anirban Chakraborty , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

The reionization of hydrogen is closely linked to the first structures in the universe, so understanding the timeline of reionization promises to shed light on the nature of these early objects. In particular, transmission of Lyman alpha…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Lily R. Whitler , Charlotte A. Mason , Keven Ren , Mark Dijkstra , Andrei Mesinger , Laura Pentericci , Michele Trenti , Tommaso Treu

We use the results of previous work building a halo model formalism for the distribution of neutral hydrogen, along with experimental parameters of future radio facilities, to place forecasts on astrophysical and cosmological parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Hamsa Padmanabhan , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara

The first sources of ionizing radiation to condense out of the dark and neutral IGM sent ionization fronts sweeping outward through their surroundings, overtaking other condensed objects and photoevaporating them. This feedback of universal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul R. Shapiro , Alejandro C. Raga

The study of reionization history plays an important role in understanding the evolution of our universe. It is commonly believed that the intergalactic medium (IGM) in our universe are fully ionized today, however the reionizing process…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 Yang Liu , Hong Li , Si-Yu Li , Yong-Ping Li , Xinmin Zhang

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 study the topology of reionization using accurate three-dimensional radiative transfer calculations post-processed on outputs from cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. In our simulations, reionization begins in overdense regions and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Finlator , F. Ozel , R. Dave , B. D. Oppenheimer