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The interstellar medium (ISM) is a complex non-linear system governed by gravity and magneto-hydrodynamics, as well as radiative, thermodynamical, and chemical processes. Our understanding of it mostly progresses through observations and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 E. Allys , F. Levrier , S. Zhang , C. Colling , B. Regaldo-Saint Blancard , F. Boulanger , P. Hennebelle , S. Mallat

The squeezed-limit bispectrum, which is generated by nonlinear gravitational evolution as well as inflationary physics, measures the correlation of three wavenumbers, in the configuration where one wavenumber is much smaller than the other…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Chi-Ting Chiang , Agnieszka M. Cieplak , Fabian Schmidt , Anže Slosar

We present 40 fully hydrodynamical numerical simulations of the intergalactic gas that gives rise to the Ly-alpha forest. We make artificial spectra from each and measure three output parameters: the mean flux, a measure of the most common…

This study aims to test a potential application of lognormal seminumerical simulations to recover the thermal parameters and Jeans length. This could be suitable for generating large number of synthetic spectra with various input data and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-24 Tomas Ondro , Bhaskar Arya , Rudolf Galis

The amplitude of the ionizing background that pervades the intergalactic medium (IGM) at the end of the epoch of reionization provides a valuable constraint on the emissivity of the sources which reionized the Universe. While measurements…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Frederick B. Davies , Joseph F. Hennawi , Anna-Christina Eilers , Zarija Lukić

The redshifted 21-cm signal from the epoch of reionization (EoR) directly probes the ionization and thermal states of the intergalactic medium during that period. In particular, the distribution of the ionized regions around the radiating…

The abundance, temperature, and clustering of metals in the intergalactic medium are important parameters for understanding their cosmic evolution and quantifying their impact on cosmological analysis with the Ly $\alpha$ forest. The…

A Gaussian beam method is presented for the analysis of the energy of the high frequency solution to the mixed problem of the scalar wave equation in an open and convex subset, with initial conditions compactly supported in this set, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-02-15 Jean-Luc Akian , Radjesvarane Alexandre , Salma Bougacha

The Universe is opaque to extragalactic very high-energy gamma rays (VHEGRs, E>100 GeV) because they annihilate and pair produce on the extragalactic background light. The resulting ultra-relativistic pairs are assumed to lose energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Philip Chang , Avery E. Broderick , Christoph Pfrommer

We consider the effects of inhomogeneous reionization on the distribution of galaxies at high redshifts. Modulation of the formation process of the ionizing sources by large scale density modes makes reionization inhomogeneous and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniel Babich , Abraham Loeb

We analyse the evolution of the Intergalactic Medium (IGM) by means of an extended set of large box size hydrodynamical simulations which include pre-heating. We focus on the properties of the z~2 Lyman-alpha forest and on the population of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Borgani , M. Viel

Recent observations of high redshift quasar spectra reveal long gaps with little flux. A small or no detectable flux does not by itself imply the intergalactic medium (IGM) is neutral. Inferring the average neutral fraction from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Adam Lidz , Lam Hui , Matias Zaldarriaga , Roman Scoccimarro

We demonstrate that the global fields of temperature, humidity and geopotential heights admit a nearly sparse representation in the wavelet domain, offering a viable path forward to explore new paradigms of sparsity-promoting data…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-03-19 Ardeshir Mohammad Ebtehaj , Efi Foufoula-Georgiou , Gilad Lerman , Rafael Luis Bras

The 21-cm forest signal is a promising probe of the Epoch of Reionization complementary to other 21-cm line observables and Ly$\alpha$ forest signal. Prospects of detecting it have significantly improved in the last decade thanks to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-20 Tomáš Šoltinský , Girish Kulkarni , Shriharsh P. Tendulkar , James S. Bolton

We measure the effective opacity ($\tau_{eff}$) of the Intergalactic Medium (IGM) from the composite spectra of 281 Lyman-Break Galaxies (LBGs) in the redshift range $2 \lesssim z \lesssim 3$. Our spectra are taken from the COSMOS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-26 Jose S. Monzon , J. Xavier Prochaska , Khee-Gan Lee , John Chisholm

With the increasing growth of technology and the entrance into the digital age, we have to handle a vast amount of information every time which often presents difficulties. So, the digital information must be stored and retrieved in an…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Kamrul Hasan Talukder , Koichi Harada

We continue our series of papers on intergalactic medium (IGM) tracers using quasi-stellar objects (QSOs), having examined gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and blazars in earlier studies. We have estimated the IGM properties of hydrogen column…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Tony Dalton , Simon L. Morris , Michele Fumagalli , Efrain Gatuzz

Recent observations and simulations reveal that the circumgalactic medium (CGM) surrounding galaxies is multiphase, with the gas temperatures spanning a wide range at most radii, $\sim 10^4\ {\rm K}$ to the virial temperature ($\sim 10^6$ K…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-10 Alankar Dutta , Mukesh Singh Bisht , Prateek Sharma , Ritali Ghosh , Manami Roy , Biman B. Nath

We investigate Lyman-alpha (Ly$\alpha$) transmission spikes at $5.2 < z < 6.8$ using synthetic quasar spectra from the ``Cosmic Reionization On Computers" simulations. We focus on understanding the relationship between these spikes and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 Hanjue Zhu , Nickolay Gnedin , Camille Avestruz

It has been realised only recently that TeV emission from blazars can significantly heat the intergalactic medium (IGM) by pair-producing high-energy electrons and positrons, which in turn excite vigorous plasma instabilities, leading to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ewald Puchwein , Christoph Pfrommer , Volker Springel , Avery E. Broderick , Philip Chang