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Quasar spectra provide a unique opportunity to investigate the intergalactic medium at high redshifts. The spectral analysis of the Ly$\alpha$ forest allows us to constrain the effective equation of state of the intergalactic medium and its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-02 K N Telikova , S A Balashev , P S Shternin

Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) has garnered attention as a powerful cosmological probe, with next-generation instruments such as SPHEREx preparing to map the evolution of large-scale structure during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Mouza Almualla , Aaron Smith , Rahul Kannan , Lars Hernquist , Enrico Garaldi , Adam Lidz , Kevin Lorinc , Jennifer Yik Ham Chan , Mark Vogelsberger

We use numerical simulations to study the effects of the patchiness of a partly reionized intergalactic medium (IGM) on the observability of Ly-alpha emitters (LAEs) at high redshifts (z ~ 6). We present a new model that divides the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Hannes Jensen , Peter Laursen , Garrelt Mellema , Ilian T. Iliev , Jesper Sommer-Larsen , Paul R. Shapiro

We use the SPHINX suite of high-resolution cosmological radiation hydrodynamics simulations to study how spatially and temporally inhomogeneous reionization impacts the baryonic content of dwarf galaxies and cosmic filaments. The SPHINX…

We model the high redshift (z > 5) Lyman-$\alpha$ emitting (LAE) galaxy population using the empirical rest-frame equivalent width distribution. We calibrate to the observed luminosity function and angular correlation function at z = 5.7 as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-19 Lewis H. Weinberger , Martin G. Haehnelt , Girish Kulkarni

We present an update to the framework called SImulator of GAlaxy Millimeter/submillimeter Emission (S\'IGAME). S\'IGAME derives line emission in the far-infrared (FIR) for galaxies in particle-based cosmological hydrodynamics simulations by…

We present a comparison between several observational tests of the post-reionization IGM and the numerical simulations of reionization completed under the Cosmic Reionization On Computers (CROC) project. The CROC simulations match the gap…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Nickolay Y. Gnedin , George D. Becker , Xiaohui Fan

We explore the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of two simulated star-forming galaxies with luminosities L ~ 0.1 and 1 L* generated using the smooth particle hydrodynamic code GASOLINE. These simulations are part of the Making Galaxies In a…

The propagation of cosmological ionization fronts during the reionization of the universe is strongly influenced by small-scale gas inhomogeneities due to structure formation. These inhomogeneities include both collapsed minihalos, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ilian T. Iliev , Evan Scannapieco , Paul R. Shapiro

The first sources of ionizing radiation to condense out of the dark and neutral IGM sent ionization fronts sweeping outward through their surroundings, overtaking other condensed objects and photoevaporating them. This feedback effect of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul R. Shapiro , Alejandro C. Raga

We present new calculations of the inhomogeneous process of cosmological reionization by carefully following the radiative transfer in pre-computed hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation. These new computations represent an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexei O. Razoumov , Michael L. Norman , Tom Abel , Douglas Scott

The propagation of cosmological ionization fronts (I-fronts) during reionization is strongly influenced by small-scale structure. Here we summarize our recent attemps to understand the effect of this small-scale structure. We present high…

We introduce a new set of large scale, high resolution hydrodynamical simulations of the intergalactic medium: the Sherwood simulation suite. These are performed in volumes 10^3-160^3 h^-3 comoving Mpc^{3}, span almost four orders of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 James S. Bolton , Ewald Puchwein , Debora Sijacki , Martin G. Haehnelt , Tae-Sun Kim , Avery Meiksin , John A. Regan , Matteo Viel

We publicly release a new sample of $34$ medium resolution quasar spectra at $5.77\leq z_{\rm em}\leq6.54$ observed with the Echellette Spectrograph and Imager (ESI) on the Keck telescope. This quasar sample represents an ideal laboratory…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-05 Anna-Christina Eilers , Frederick B. Davies , Joseph F. Hennawi

Cosmological hydrodynamic simulations can accurately predict the properties of the intergalactic medium (IGM), but only under the condition of retaining high spatial resolution necessary to resolve density fluctuations in the IGM. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Daniele Sorini , José Oñorbe , Zarija Lukić , Joseph F. Hennawi

We study the intergalactic transmission of radiation in the vicinity of the Ly{\alpha} wavelength. Simulating sightlines through the intergalactic medium (IGM) in detailed cosmological hydrosimulations, the impact of the IGM on the shape of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Peter Laursen , Jesper Sommer-Larsen , Alexei O. Razoumov

The thermal state of the intergalactic medium (IGM) contains vital information about the epoch of reionization, one of the most transformative yet poorly understood periods in the young universe. This thermal state is encoded in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Molly Wolfson , Joseph F. Hennawi , Frederick B. Davies , Jose Oñorbe , Hector Hiss , Zarija Lukić

We have modelled the process of reionization of the IGM by photoionization by galaxies, in order to predict the epoch of reionization. We use a sophisticated semi-analytic model to track the formation of galaxies. Our study represents a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. J. Benson , Naoshi Sugiyama , Adi Nusser , C. G. Lacey

Quasar absorption spectra measurements suggest that reionization proceeded rapidly, ended late at $z \sim 5.5$, and was followed by a flat ionizing background evolution. Simulations that reproduce this behavior often rely on a fine tuned…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-20 Christopher Cain , Anson D'Aloisio , Garett Lopez , Nakul Gangolli , Joshua T. Roth

We derive constraints on the thermal and ionization states of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at redshift $\approx$ 9.1 using new upper limits on the 21-cm power spectrum measured by the LOFAR radio-telescope and a prior on the ionized…