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Galaxies may suffer some starburst and quenched periods in their history due to e.g. galaxy mergers and feedback. However, semi-numerical simulations of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) typically do not accurately model the effects of the…

The thermal state of the intergalactic medium (IGM) provides an indirect probe of both the HI and HeII reionisation epochs. Current constraints on the IGM temperature from the Lya forest are restricted to the redshift range 2<z<4.5,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 James S. Bolton , George D. Becker , J. Stuart B. Wyithe , Martin G. Haehnelt , Wallace L. W. Sargent

The spatial correlation between galaxies and the Ly$\alpha$ forest provides insights into how galaxies reionized the Universe. Here, we present initial results on the spatial cross-correlation between [OIII] emitters and Ly$\alpha$ forest…

Models of the reionization and reheating of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at redshifts $z \gtrsim 6$ continue to grow more sophisticated in anticipation of near-future 21-cm, cosmic microwave background, and galaxy survey measurements.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-11 Jordan Mirocha , Henri Lamarre , Adrian Liu

Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) spectra provide insights into the small-scale structure and kinematics of neutral hydrogen (HI) within galaxies as well as the ionization state of the intergalactic medium (IGM). The former defines the intrinsic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-21 Chris Byrohl , Max Gronke

Simulating the distribution of cosmological neutral hydrogen (HI) during the epoch of reionization requires a high dynamic range and is hence computationally expensive. The size of the simulation is dictated by the largest scales one aims…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-24 Ankur Barsode , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

We present simulations from the new "Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo" (FOGGIE) project. In contrast to most extant simulations of galaxy formation, which concentrate computational resources on galactic disks and spheroids with fluid and…

While limited to low spatial resolution, the next generation low-frequency radio interferometers that target 21 cm observations during the era of reionization and prior will have instantaneous fields-of-view that are many tens of square…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 M. G. Santos , L. Ferramacho , M. B. Silva , A. Amblard , A. Cooray

Detecting neutral hydrogen structures in the intergalactic medium (IGM) during cosmic reionization via absorption (21 cm forest) against a background radiation is considered independent and complementary to the three-dimensional tomography…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-10 Nithyanandan Thyagarajan

The thermal history of the intergalactic medium is full of extremely useful data in the field of astrophysics and cosmology. In other words, by examining this environment in different redshifts, the effects of cosmology and astrophysics can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-23 S. Mobina Hosseini , Bahareh Soleimanpour Salmasi , Seyed Sajad Tabasi , Javad T. Firouzjaee

The reionization of the second electron of helium (HeII) leaves important imprints on the thermal and ionization state of the intergalactic medium (IGM). Observational evidence suggests that HeII reionization ended at $z \simeq 3$ due to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-01 Akanksha Kapahtia , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

The recent measurement by WMAP of a large electron scattering optical depth tau_e = 0.17 +- 0.04 is consistent with a simple model of reionization in which the intergalactic medium (IGM) is ionized at redshift z ~ 15, and remains highly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lam Hui , Zoltan Haiman

Using the CoDa II simulation, we study the Ly$\alpha$ transmissivity of the intergalactic medium (IGM) during reionization. At $z>6$, a typical galaxy without an active galactic nucleus fails to form a proximity zone around itself due to…

We introduce a new project to understand helium reionization using fully coupled $N$-body, hydrodynamics, and radiative transfer simulations. This project aims to capture correctly the thermal history of the intergalactic medium (IGM) as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Paul La Plante , Hy Trac

We use a set of AMR hydrodynamic simulations post-processed with the radiative-transfer code RADAMESH to study how inhomogeneous HeII reionization affects the intergalactic medium (IGM). We propagate radiation from active galactic nuclei…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Michele Compostella , Sebastiano Cantalupo , Cristiano Porciani

The large cross-section of the Lyman alpha (Lya) line makes it a sensitive probe of the ionization state of the intergalactic medium (IGM). Here we present the most complete study to date of the IGM Lya opacity, and its application to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Andrei Mesinger , Aycin Aykutalp , Eros Vanzella , Laura Pentericci , Andrea Ferrara , Mark Dijkstra

The hyperfine transition of $^3$He$^+$ at 3.5cm has been thought as a probe of the high-z IGM since it offers a unique insight into the evolution of the helium component of the gas, as well as potentially give an independent constraint on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Shivan Khullar , Qingbo Ma , Philipp Busch , Benedetta Ciardi , Marius B. Eide , Koki Kakiichi

At $z \lesssim 1$, shock heating caused by large-scale velocity flows and possibly violent feedback from galaxy formation, converts a significant fraction of the cool gas ($T\sim 10^4$ K) in the intergalactic medium (IGM) into warm-hot…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-29 Teng Hu , Vikram Khaire , Joseph F. Hennawi , Jose Onorbe , Michael Walther , Zarija Lukic , Frederick Davies

We use hydrodynamic cosmological simulations in a 9.6 Mpc box to explore the evolution of the intergalactic medium (IGM) transmissivity from z=2 through the epoch of reionization. Reionization is achieved through an ultraviolet background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pascal Paschos , Michael L. Norman

Interstellar (ISM) and circumgalactic mediums (CGM) around galaxies are linked to several physical processes that drive galaxy evolution. For example, the X-ray emission from the CGM gas around ellipticals has been linked to the AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-26 Aditi Vijayan , Bocheng Zhu , Miao Li , Feng Yuan , Luis C. Ho