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By depleting the ionizing photon budget available to expand cosmic HII regions, recombining systems (or Lyman limit systems) can have a large impact during (and following) cosmic reionization. Unfortunately, directly resolving such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Emanuele Sobacchi , Andrei Mesinger

We study the visibility of the Lyman Alpha (Lya) emission line during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Combining galactic outflow models with large-scale semi-numeric simulations of reionization, we quantify the probability distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Mark Dijkstra , Andrei Mesinger , Stuart Wyithe

We develop an analytic approach to study inhomogeneous reionization on large scales by solving the equations of ionization balance and radiative transfer to first order in perturbations. Given the spatial distribution and spectrum of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jun Zhang , Lam Hui , Zoltan Haiman

We investigate Lyman-$\alpha$ transmission spikes at $z > 5$ in synthetic quasar spectra, and discuss their connection to the properties of the intergalactic medium and their ability to constrain reionization models. We use state-of-the-art…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 Enrico Garaldi , Nickolay Gnedin , Piero Madau

We use a set of cosmological simulations combined with radiative transfer calculations to investigate the distribution of neutral hydrogen in the post-reionization Universe. We assess the contributions from the metagalactic ionizing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-27 Alireza Rahmati , Andreas H. Pawlik , Milan Raičević , Joop Schaye

I apply the well controlled Hydro-PM approximation of Gnedin & Hui to model the column density distribution of the Lyman-alpha forest for 25 different flat cosmological scenarios, including variants of the standard CDM, tilted CDM, CDM with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Nickolay Y. Gnedin

We use an analytic model to study how inhomogeneous hydrogen reionization affects the temperature distribution of the intergalactic medium (IGM). During this process, the residual energy of each ionizing photon is deposited in the IGM as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Steven Furlanetto , S. Peng Oh

Absorption of the Lyman-$\alpha$ radiation on Interstellar Neutral Hydrogen (ISN H) atoms in the heliosphere is a potentially important effect to account for in precise gas distribution simulations. In this paper we develop a method to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-07 Izabela Kowalska-Leszczynska , Marzena A. Kubiak , Maciej Bzowski

The influence has been studied of the ionization laser polarization on the effective temperature of an ultracold electron source, which is based on near-threshold photoionization. This source is capable of producing both high-intensity and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 W. J. Engelen , D. J. Bakker , O. J. Luiten , E. J. D. Vredenbregt

Galaxies represent one of the preferred candidate sources to drive the reionization of the universe. Even as gains are made in mapping the galaxy UV luminosity density to z>6, significant uncertainties remain regarding the conversion to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-15 R. J. Bouwens , R. Smit , I. Labbe , M. Franx , J. Caruana , P. Oesch , M. Stefanon , N. Rasappu

A theoretical investigation of the radiative capture of an electron into a bound state of heavy, hydrogen-like ion is presented. Special attention is paid to the question of how the linear polarization of the emitted radiation is affected…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Surzhykov , A. N. Artemyev , V. A. Yerokhin

The incorporation of radiative transfer effects into cosmological hydrodynamical simulations is essential for understanding how the intergalactic medium (IGM) makes the transition from a neutral medium to one that is almost fully ionized.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Aaron Sokasian , Tom Abel , Lars E. Hernquist

The temperature of the diffuse, photo-heated intergalactic medium (IGM) depends on its reionization history because the thermal time scales are long. The widths of the hydrogen Lyman-alpha absorption lines seen in the spectra of distant…

We use the inferred evolution of Lyman-$\alpha$ luminosities of galaxies in the redshift range of $z \sim 9-16$ from the ${James \ Webb \ Space \ Telescope}$ (JWST) data to predict the power spectrum of Loeb-Rybicki haloes formed by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-17 Hamsa Padmanabhan , Abraham Loeb

Understanding the production and escape of Lyman $\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) radiation from star-forming galaxies is a long standing problem in astrophysics. The ability to predict the Ly$\alpha$ luminosity of galaxies would open up new ways of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-08 Axel Runnholm , Matthew Hayes , Jens Melinder , Emil Rivera-Thorsen , Göran Östlin , John Cannon , Daniel Kunth

We investigate the correlations between the observed fraction of Lyman alpha emission from star-forming galaxies and the large scale structure by post-processing snapshots of a large, high resolution hydrodynamical simulation with a Lyman…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-23 Christoph Behrens , Jens Niemeyer

Linearly polarized Balmer line emissions from supernova remnant shocks are studied taking into account the energy loss of the shock owing to the production of nonthermal particles. The polarization degree depends on the downstream…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-15 Jiro Shimoda , Yutaka Ohira , Ryo Yamazaki , J. Martin Laming , Satoru Katsuda

Here, we demonstrate the radiative polarization of high-energy electron beams in collisions with ultrashort pulsed bi-chromatic laser fields. Employing a Boltzmann kinetic approach for the electron distribution allows us to simulate the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-12-06 Daniel Seipt , Dario Del Sorbo , Christopher P. Ridgers , Alec G. R. Thomas

We examine the statistics of the low-redshift Lyman-alpha forest from smoothed particle hydrodynamic simulations in light of recent improvements in the estimated evolution of the cosmic ultraviolet background (UVB) and recent observations…

We present the Cosmic Lyman-$\alpha$ Transfer code (COLT), a massively parallel Monte-Carlo radiative transfer code, to simulate Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) resonant scattering through neutral hydrogen as a probe of the first galaxies. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Aaron Smith , Chalence Safranek-Shrader , Volker Bromm , Miloš Milosavljević