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The study of cosmic reionization has acquired increasing significance over the last few years because of various reasons. On the observational front, we now have good quality data of different types at high redshifts (quasar absorption…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Roy Choudhury , A. Ferrara

We explore the mean and fluctuating redshifted 21 cm signal in numerical simulations of cosmic reionization from the Cosmic Reionization On Computers (CROC) project. We find that the mean signal varies between about $\pm20\rm{mK}$. Most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Alexander A. Kaurov , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

We calculate the hydrogen and helium-ionizing radiation escaping star-forming molecular clouds, as a function of the star cluster mass and compactness, using a set of high-resolution radiation-magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-29 Chong-Chong He , Massimo Ricotti , Sam Geen

Numerical simulations play an important role in current astronomy researches. Previous dark-matter-only simulations have represented the large-scale structure of the Universe. However, nowadays, hydro-dynamical simulations with baryonic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-09 Weiguang Cui , Youcai Zhang

We revisit the classical view that quasar contribution to the reionization of hydrogen is unimportant. When secondary ionization are taken into account, in many plausible scenarios for the formation and growth of supermassive black holes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-24 Marta Volonteri , Nick Gnedin

We show that the process of photoionizing a gas of atomic hydrogen and helium by line radiation whose energy is slightly above the helium single-ionization threshold is unstable if the helium fraction by number is less than approximately…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Ethan Bradford , Craig Hogan

In this paper we consider the re-processing of high frequency photons emitted by HeII and HeI during the epoch of cosmological recombination by HeI and HI. We demonstrate that, in comparison to computations which neglect all feedback…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. Chluba , R. A. Sunyaev

Observations are beginning to constrain the history of the epoch of reionization (EoR). Modeling the reionization process is indispensable to interpret the observations, to infer the properties of ionizing sources, and to probe the various…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 Runyu Zhu , Yidong Xu , Bin Yue , Xuelei Chen

Cosmological N-body simulations have been a major tool of theorists for decades, yet many of the numerical issues that these simulations face are still unexplored. This paper measures numerical biases in these large, dark matter-only…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Philip Mansfield , Camille Avestruz

Cosmic voids provide a powerful probe of the origin and evolution of structures in the Universe because their dynamics can remain near-linear to the present day. As a result they have the potential to connect large scale structure at late…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-26 Stephen Stopyra , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen

We estimate the maximum contribution to reionization from the first generation of massive stars, with zero metallicity, under the assumption that one of these stars forms with a fixed mass in every collapsed halo in which metal-free gas is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose M. Rozas , Jordi Miralda-Escude , Eduard Salvador-Sole

N-body simulations that follow only a collisionless dark matter component have failed to produce galaxy halos or substructure within dense environments. We investigate the `over-merging' problem analytically and with numerical simulations,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Ben Moore , Neal Katz , George Lake

We compare the properties of stellar populations of model galaxies from the Cosmic Reionization On Computers (CROC) project with the exiting UV and IR data. Since CROC simulations do not follow cosmic dust directly, we adopt two variants of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-01 Zimu Khakhaleva-Li , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

A development of perturbations of number densities of ions and electrons during recombination epoch is analysed. The equations for relative perturbations of ionization fractions were derived from the system of equations for accurate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Novosyadlyj

Estimating the intergalactic medium ionization level of a region needs proper treatment of the reionization process for a large representative volume of the universe. The clumping factor, a parameter which accounts for the effect of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Akila Jeeson-Daniel , Benedetta Ciardi , Luca Graziani

Understanding the galaxy-halo relationship is not only key for elucidating the interplay between baryonic and dark matter, it is essential for creating large mock galaxy catalogues from N-body simulations. High-resolution hydrodynamical…

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

The physical properties of the faint and extremely tenuous plasma in the far outskirts of galaxy clusters, the circumgalactic media of normal galaxies, and filaments of the cosmic web, remain one of the biggest unknowns in our story of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-21 Lýdia Štofanová , Aurora Simionescu , Nastasha A. Wijers , Joop Schaye , Jelle S. Kaastra

We present self-consistent radiation hydrodynamic simulations of hydrogen reionization performed with Arepo-RT complemented by a state-of-the-art galaxy formation model. We examine how photoheating feedback, due to reionization, shapes the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-25 Xiaohan Wu , Rahul Kannan , Federico Marinacci , Mark Vogelsberger , Lars Hernquist

Small galaxies are thought to be the main contributors to the ionising budget of the Universe before reionisation was complete. There have been a number of numerical studies trying to quantify their ionising efficiency through the escape…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-26 M. Trebitsch , J. Blaizot , J. Rosdahl