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Cosmic reionization holds the key to understand structure formation in the Universe, and can inform us about the properties of the first sources, as their star formation efficiency and escape fraction of ionizing photons. By combining the…

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The 21cm signal of neutral hydrogen contains a wealth of information about the poorly constrained era of cosmological history, the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Recently, AI models trained on EoR simulations have gained significant attention…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Jasper Solt , Jonathan C. Pober , Stephen H. Bach

Understanding the detailed process of cosmic reionization is one of the remaining problems in astrophysics and cosmology. Here we construct a model of cosmic reionization that includes contribution from high-$z$ galaxies and active galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 Shintaro Yoshiura , Kenji Hasegawa , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Hiroyuki Tashiro , Hayato Shimabukuro , Keitaro Takahashi

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

The recent pioneering campaigns conducted by the Lead Radius Experiment (PREX) and the Calcium Radius Experiment (CREX) collaborations have uncovered major deficiencies in the theoretical description of some fundamental properties of atomic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-22 Marc Salinas , Jorge Piekarewicz

In situ NMR spectroscopy is a powerful technique to investigate charge storage mechanisms in carbon-based supercapacitors thanks to its ability to distinguish ionic and molecular species adsorbed in the porous electrodes from those in the…

The observed power spectrum of redshifted 21cm fluctuations is known to be sensitive to the astrophysical properties of the galaxies that drove reionization. Thus, detailed measurements of the 21cm power spectrum and its evolution could…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Han-Seek Kim , J. Stuart B. Wyithe , Jaehong Park , C. G. Lacey

As an extension to our previous work [1], a comprehensive theoretical study for Na-like Krypton and Xenon is carried out. Using MCDHF (Multiconfiguration Dirac-Hartee-Fock) along with RDW (Relativistic distorted wave) theory we calculate…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Ashwini Malviya

The radiative muon capture(RMC) on a proton is analyzed by means of heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory. The emitted photon energy spectrum is calculated and compared with the experimental data by taking the spin sum on the muonic atom…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Shung-ichi Ando , Dong-Pil Min

We have studied the IGM reionization process in its full cosmological context including structure evolution and a realistic galaxy population. We have used a combination of high-resolution N-body simulations (to describe the dark matter and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Ciardi , F. Stoehr , S. D. M. White

Parametrizing energy functions for ionic systems can be challenging. Here, the total energy function for an eutectic system consisting of water, SCN$^-$, K$^+$ and acetamide is improved vis-a-vis experimentally measured properties. Given…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 Kai Töpfer , Eric Boittier , Michael Devereux , Andrea Pasti , Peter Hamm , Markus Meuwly

The correlation between 21cm fluctuations and galaxies is sensitive to the astrophysical properties of the galaxies that drove reionization. Thus, detailed measurements of the cross-power spectrum and its evolution could provide a powerful…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Jaehong Park , Han-Seek Kim , J. Stuart B. Wyithe , C. G. Lacey

Radio interferometers, such as the Low-Frequency Array and the future Square Kilometre Array, are attempting to measure the spherically averaged 21-cm power spectrum from the Epoch of Reionization. Understanding of the dominant physical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Ivelin Georgiev , Garrelt Mellema , Sambit K. Giri , Rajesh Mondal

The solar modulation, a combination of diffusion, convection, magnetic drift and energy loss inside the heliosphere is usually seen as a depletion in the Galactic cosmic ray (CR) flux at low energy (less than 10 GeV/nuc). Antiparticles such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 P. Bobik , M. J. Boschini , C. Consolandi , S. Della Torre , M. Gervasi , D. Grandi , K. Kudela , S. Pensotti , P. G. Rancoita

A new generation of radio telescopes are currently being built with the goal of tracing the cosmic distribution of atomic hydrogen at redshifts 6-15 through its 21-cm line. The observations will probe the large-scale brightness fluctuations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rennan Barkana , Abraham Loeb

We investigate the effects of interactions between ions and neutrals on the chromosphere and overlying corona using 2.5D radiative MHD simulations with the Bifrost code. We have extended the code capabilities implementing ion-neutral…

Numerical simulations of radiative processes in magnetized compact sources such as hot accretion disks around black holes, relativistic jets in active galaxies and gamma-ray bursts are complicated because the particle and photon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Indrek Vurm , Juri Poutanen

We study the phenomenology of cosmic-rays (CRs) at the galactic/extragalactic transition, focusing on two opposite models for the composition of the extragalactic (EG) component. Model A assumes a mixed source composition, with nuclear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 D. Allard , E. Parizot , A. V. Olinto

An additional channel opens for photoionization of atom $A$ by an electromagnetic field if it traverses a gas of atoms $B$ resonantly coupled to this field. We show that this channel, in which $A$ is ionized via resonant photoexcitation of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 A. B. Voitkiv , C. Müller , S. F. Zhang , X. Ma

Cross-correlations between 21cm observations and galaxy surveys provide a powerful probe of reionization by reducing foreground sensitivity while linking ionization morphology to galaxies. We quantify the constraining power of 21cm-Galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Yannic Pietschke , Anne Hutter , Caroline Heneka