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The observed scatter in intergalactic Lyman-$\alpha$ opacity at $z \lesssim 6$ requires large-scale fluctuations in the neutral fraction of the intergalactic medium (IGM) after the expected end of reionization. Post-reionization models that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 George D. Becker , Frederick B. Davies , Steven R. Furlanetto , Matthew A. Malkan , Elisa Boera , Craig Douglass

We present an analysis of the evolution of the Lyman-series forest into the epoch of reionization using cosmological radiative transfer simulations in a scenario where reionization ends late. We explore models with different midpoints of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Laura C. Keating , Girish Kulkarni , Martin G. Haehnelt , Jonathan Chardin , Dominique Aubert

We investigate the properties of cosmological ionization fronts during the Epoch of Reionization using the CROC simulations. By analyzing reionization timing maps, we characterize ionization front velocities and curvatures and their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-29 Hanjue Zhu , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

We build a physical model for high-redshift Lyman Alpha emitters (LAEs) by coupling state of the art cosmological simulations (GADGET-2) with a dust model and a radiative transfer code (pCRASH). We post-process the cosmological simulation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-07 A. Hutter , P. Dayal , A. M. Partl , V. Müller

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

Recent JWST observations have allowed for the first time to obtain comprehensive measurements of the ionizing photon production efficiency $\xi_\text{ion} $ for a wide range of reionization-epoch galaxies. We explore implications for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 Shikhar Asthana , Girish Kulkarni , Martin G. Haehnelt , James S. Bolton , Laura C. Keating , Charlotte Simmonds

We use a suite of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations including a self-consistent treatment for inhomogeneous reionisation to study the impact of galactic outflows and photoionisation heating on the volume-averaged recombination rate of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 K. Finlator , S. Peng Oh , F. Özel , R. Davé

The reionization of helium is thought to occur at $2.5\lesssim z\lesssim4$, marking the last phase transition and final global heating event of the intergalactic medium (IGM). Since it is driven by rare quasars, helium reionization should…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-13 Saba Etezad-Razavi , Sarah E. I. Bosman , Frederick B. Davies

We develop an efficient method to study the effects of reionization history on the temperature-density relation of the intergalactic medium in the low density limit (overdensity less than 5). It is applied to the study of photo-reionization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Lam Hui , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

Ly$\alpha$ intensity mapping is emerging as a new probe of faint galaxies consisting the cosmic web that elude traditional surveys. However, the resonant nature of Ly$\alpha$ radiative transfer complicates the interpretation of observed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Hyunbae Park , Hyunmi Song , Chris Byrohl , Aaron Smith , Yajima Hidenobu , Zarija Lukić

An appealing approach for studying the reionization history of the Universe is to measure the redshift evolution of the Lyman-alpha fraction, the percentage of Lyman-break selected galaxies that emit appreciably in the Ly-alpha line. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Jessie Taylor , Adam Lidz

The use of an intense ultrashort laser pulse to induce electron polarization has been proposed in existing literature. The Python programming language is used to recreate the local constant crossed-field approximation (LCFA) with the aim of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Katherine D. Ranjbar , Emily Snyder , Alice Snyder , Vahid H. Ranjbar

We study the properties of self-shielding intergalactic absorption systems and their implications for the ionizing background. We find that cosmological simulations post-processed with detailed radiative transfer calculations generally are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-14 Matthew McQuinn , S. Peng Oh , C. -A. Faucher-Giguere

Recent observations have found the ratio of H-alpha to free-free radio continuum to be surprisingly high in the diffuse ionized ISM (the so-called WIM), corresponding to an electron temperature of only ~3000K. Such low temperatures were…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Ruobing Dong , B. T. Draine

The inhomogeneous cosmological reionization process leaves tangible imprints in the intergalactic medium down to z=4-5. The Lyman-alpha forest flux power spectrum provides a potentially powerful probe of the epoch of reionization. With the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Renyue Cen , Patrick McDonald , Hy Trac , Abraham Loeb

The intergalactic medium (IGM) prior to the epoch of reionization consists mostly of neutral hydrogen gas. Ly-alpha photons produced by early stars resonantly scatter off hydrogen atoms, causing energy exchange between the radiation field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Antonija Oklopcic , Christopher M. Hirata

Lyman-$\alpha$ nebulae are usually found in massive environments at high redshift ($z > 2$). The origin of their Lyman-$\alpha$ (Lya) emission remains debated. Recent polarimetric observations showed that at least some Lya sources are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-05 M. Trebitsch , A. Verhamme , J. Blaizot , J. Rosdahl

We explore how the characteristics of the cross-correlation functions between the 21cm emission from the spin-flip transition of neutral hydrogen (HI) and early Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) radiation emitting galaxies (Ly$\alpha$ emitters,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Anne Hutter , Caroline Heneka , Pratika Dayal , Stefan Gottlöber , Andrei Mesinger , Maxime Trebitsch , Gustavo Yepes

We study the statistics of the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest in a flat LCDM cosmology with the N-body + Eulerian hydrodynamics code Nyx. We produce a suite of simulations, covering the observationally relevant redshift range $2 \leq z \leq 4$. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-24 Zarija Lukić , Casey Stark , Peter Nugent , Martin White , Avery Meiksin , Ann Almgren

I discuss the physics of polarization in models with early reionization. For sufficiently high optical depth to recombination the polarization is boosted on large scales while it is suppressed on smaller scales. New peaks appear in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Matias Zaldarriaga