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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

Intergalactic medium temperature is a powerful probe of the epoch of reionisation, as information is retained long after reionisation itself. However, mean temperatures are highly degenerate with the timing of reionisation, with the amount…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 James E. Davies , Simon J. Mutch , Yuxiang Qin , Andrei Mesinger , Gregory B. Poole , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

We examine the temperature structure of the IGM due to the passage of individual ionisation fronts using a radiative transfer (RT) code coupled to a particle-mesh (PM) N-body code. Multiple simulations were performed with different spectra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Eric R. Tittley , Avery Meiksin

We present a new method to infer parameters of the temperature-density relation in the intergalactic medium in the post-reionization epoch at $z\sim 2-4$. This method is based on the analysis of the Ly$\alpha$ absorbers distribution over…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-24 K. N. Telikova , P. S. Shternin , S. A. Balashev

Heating of neutral gas by energetic sources is crucial for the prediction of the 21 cm signal during the epoch of reionization (EoR). To investigate differences induced on statistics of the 21 cm signal by various source types, we use five…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Qing-Bo Ma , Benedetta Ciardi , Marius B. Eide , Philipp Busch , Yi Mao , Qi-Jun Zhi

We present a novel approach to estimating the intensity mapping signal of any CO rotational line emitted during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Our approach is based on large velocity gradient (LVG) modeling, a radiative transfer modeling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-22 Natalie Mashian , Amiel Sternberg , Abraham Loeb

The final stages of cosmic reionisation (EndEoR) are expected to be strongly regulated by the residual neutral hydrogen in the already ionised regions of the Universe. Its presence limits the mean distance that ionising photons can travel…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-19 Ivelin Georgiev , Garrelt Mellema , Sambit K. Giri

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 present a semi-analytic model for the thermal and ionization history of the universe at 1000 >~ z >~ 3. This model incorporates much of the essential physics included in full-scale hydrodynamical simulations, such as (1) gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Weihsueh A. Chiu , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

For there to be a successful measurement of the 21 cm Epoch of Reionization (EoR) power spectrum, it is crucial that strong foreground contaminants be robustly suppressed. These foregrounds come from a variety of sources (such as Galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-25 Adrian Liu , Aaron R. Parsons , Cathryn M. Trott

The evolution of topology and morphology of ionized or neutral hydrogen during different stages of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) have the potential to provide us a great amount of information about the properties of the ionizing sources…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Aadarsh Pathak , Satadru Bag , Saswata Dasgupta , Suman Majumdar , Rajesh Mondal , Mohd Kamran , Prakash Sarkar

During reionization, the intergalactic medium is heated impulsively by supersonic ionization fronts (I-fronts). The peak gas temperatures behind the I-fronts, $T_\mathrm{reion}$, are a key uncertainty in models of the thermal history after…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Anson D'Aloisio , Matthew McQuinn , Oliver Maupin , Frederick B. Davies , Hy Trac , Spencer Fuller , Phoebe R. Upton Sanderbeck

We present a detailed analysis of the ionization and thermal structure of the intergalactic medium (IGM) around a high-redshift QSO using a large suite of cosmological, multi-frequency radiative transfer (RT) simulations, exploring the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-18 Koki Kakiichi , Luca Graziani , Benedetta Ciardi , Avery Meiksin , Michele Compostella , Marius B. Eide , Saleem Zaroubi

We propose different estimators to probe the intergalactic medium (IGM) during epoch of reionization (EoR) using the dispersion measure (${\rm DM}$) of the fast radio bursts. We consider three different reionization histories, which we can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-17 Abinash Kumar Shaw , Raghunath Ghara , Paz Beniamini , Saleem Zaroubi , Pawan Kumar

We employ the high-redshift suite of FIRE-2 cosmological hydrodynamic zoom-in simulations to investigate the evolution of gas-phase metallicity radial gradients in galaxies in the epoch of reionization (EoR). Our sample consists of 22…

We use the Dark-ages, Reionization And Galaxy-formation Observables from Numerical Simulations (DRAGONS) framework to investigate the effect of galaxy-formation physics on the morphology and statistics of ionized hydrogen (HII) regions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-24 Paul M. Geil , Simon J. Mutch , Gregory B. Poole , Paul W. Angel , Alan R. Duffy , Andrei Mesinger , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

The redshifted 21-cm signal emitted by neutral Hydrogen (HI) is a promising probe to understand the evolution of the topology of ionized regions during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). The topology of ionized regions allows us to infer the…

Recent years have witnessed rapid progress in observations of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). These have enabled high-dimensional inference of galaxy and intergalactic medium (IGM) properties during the first billion years of our Universe.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-09 Daniela Breitman , Andrei Mesinger , Steven Murray , David Prelogovic , Yuxiang Qin , Roberto Trotta

A soft ultraviolet radiation field, 10.2 eV < E <13.6 eV, that permeates neutral intergalactic gas during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) excites the 2p (directly) and 2s (indirectly) states of atomic hydrogen. Because the 2s state is…

In light of recent observations of spectra of the quasars SDSS 1030+0524 (Becker et al. 2001) and SDSS 1044-0125 (Djorgovski et al. 2001), we study the observational signatures of different stages of the reionization epoch. During the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Rennan Barkana