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Early galaxies were the radiation source for reionization, with the photoheating feedback from the reionization process expected to reduce the efficiency of star formation in low mass haloes. Hence, to fully understand reionization and…

We introduce the THESAN-ZOOM project, a comprehensive suite of high-resolution zoom-in simulations of $14$ high-redshift ($z>3$) galaxies selected from the THESAN simulation volume. This sample encompasses a diverse range of halo masses,…

A fundamental requirement for reionizing the Universe is that a sufficient fraction of the ionizing photons emitted by galaxies successfully escapes into the intergalactic medium. However, due to the scarcity of high-redshift observational…

We introduce the THESAN project, a suite of large volume (L = 95.5 cMpc) radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations that simultaneously model the large-scale statistical properties of the IGM during reionization and the resolved…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-07 R. Kannan , E. Garaldi , A. Smith , R. Pakmor , V. Springel , M. Vogelsberger , L. Hernquist

We investigate galaxy sizes at redshift $z\gtrsim 6$ with the cosmological radiation-magneto-hydrodynamic simulation suite THESAN(-HR). These simulations simultaneously capture the reionization of the large-scale intergalactic medium and…

The high-redshift intergalactic medium (IGM) and the primeval galaxy population are rapidly becoming the new frontier of extra-galactic astronomy. We investigate the IGM properties and their connection to galaxies at $z\geq5.5$ under…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Enrico Garaldi , Rahul Kannan , Aaron Smith , Volker Springel , Rüdiger Pakmor , Mark Vogelsberger , Lars Hernquist

Metal absorbers represent a powerful probe of galaxy feedback and reionization, as highlighted by both observational and theoretical results showing an increased abundance of low-ionised metal species at higher redshifts. The origin of such…

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is rapidly emerging as a powerful technique to study galaxy formation and cosmology in the high-redshift Universe. We present LIM estimates of select spectral lines originating from the interstellar medium (ISM)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-23 Rahul Kannan , Aaron Smith , Enrico Garaldi , Xuejian Shen , Mark Vogelsberger , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

An important characteristic of cosmic hydrogen reionization is the growth of ionized gas bubbles surrounding early luminous objects. Ionized bubble sizes are beginning to be probed using Lyman-$\alpha$ emission from high-redshift galaxies,…

Recent JWST observations hint at unexpectedly intense cosmic star-formation in the early Universe, often attributed to enhanced star-formation efficiencies (SFEs). Here, we analyze the SFE in THESAN-ZOOM, a novel zoom-in…

The visibility of high-redshift Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies (LAEs) provides important constraints on galaxy formation processes and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). However, predicting realistic and representative statistics for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-05 A. Smith , R. Kannan , E. Garaldi , M. Vogelsberger , R. Pakmor , V. Springel , L. Hernquist

The observability of Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies (LAEs) during the Epoch of Reionization can provide a sensitive probe of the evolving neutral hydrogen gas distribution, thus setting valuable constraints to distinguish different…

The timing of cosmic reionization across Local Group (LG) analogues provides insights into their early histories and surrounding large-scale structure. Using the radiation-hydrodynamic simulation THESAN-1 and its dark matter-only…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 Yu Zhao , Aaron Smith , Rahul Kannan , Enrico Garaldi , Hui Li , Mark Vogelsberger , Andrew Benson , Lars Hernquist

We use high-resolution simulations of cosmological volumes to model galaxy formation at high-redshift, with the goal of studying the photon budget for reionization. We demonstrate that galaxy formation models that include a strong,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-08-13 Alan R. Duffy , J. Stuart B. Wyithe , Simon J. Mutch , Gregory B. Poole

The reionization of the intergalactic medium (IGM) was likely inhomogeneous and extended. By heating the IGM and photo-evaporating gas from the outskirts of galaxies, this process can have a dramatic impact on the growth of structures.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Emanuele Sobacchi , Andrei Mesinger

We present cosmological, radiation-hydrodynamics simulations of galaxy formation during the epoch of reionization in an effort towards modelling the interstellar medium (ISM) and interpreting ALMA observations. Simulations with and without…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-02 Harley Katz , Taysun Kimm , Debora Sijacki , Martin Haehnelt

We present semi-analytic models of the epoch of reionization focusing on the differences between continuous and bursty star formation (SF). Our model utilizes physically motivated analytic fits to 1D radiative transfer simulations of HII…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Blake Hartley , Massimo Ricotti

We explore scenarios for reionizing the intergalactic medium with low galaxy ionizing photon escape fractions. We combine simulation-based halo-mass dependent escape fractions with an extrapolation of the observed galaxy rest-ultraviolet…

The temporal evolution of the ionizing UV background radiation field at high redshift provides a probe of the evolution of the early star formation rate. By comparing the observed levels of absorption in the highest redshift quasar spectra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Renyue Cen , Patrick McDonald

We study the ionization and thermal evolution of the intergalactic medium during the epoch of \heii reionization by means of radiation hydrodynamical cosmological simulations. We post-process baryonic density fields from a standard…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-14 Pascal Paschos , Michael L. Norman , James O. Bordner , Robert Harkness
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