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This is the second paper in a series whose aim is to predict the power spectrum of intensity and polarized intensity from cosmic reionization fronts. After building the analytic models for intensity and polarized intensity calculations in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Emily Koivu , Heyang Long , Yuanyuan Yang , Christopher M. Hirata

The inhomogeneous cosmological reionization process leaves tangible imprints in the intergalactic medium down to z=4-5. The Lyman-alpha forest flux power spectrum provides a potentially powerful probe of the epoch of reionization. With the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Renyue Cen , Patrick McDonald , Hy Trac , Abraham Loeb

We present a method to construct semi-numerical ``simulations'', which can efficiently generate realizations of halo distributions and ionization maps at high redshifts. Our procedure combines an excursion-set approach with first-order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrei Mesinger , Steven Furlanetto

The study of cosmic reionization has acquired increasing significance over the last few years because of various reasons. On the observational front, we now have good quality data of different types at high redshifts (quasar absorption…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Roy Choudhury , A. Ferrara

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

We use a suite of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations including a self-consistent treatment for inhomogeneous reionisation to study the impact of galactic outflows and photoionisation heating on the volume-averaged recombination rate of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 K. Finlator , S. Peng Oh , F. Özel , R. Davé

The cosmic reionization of hydrogen was the last major phase transition in the evolution of the universe, which drastically changed the ionization and thermal conditions in the cosmic gas. To the best of our knowledge today, this process…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-03 Hy Trac , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

QSO near-zones are an important probe of the the ionization state of the IGM at z ~ 6-7, at the end of reionization. We present here high-resolution cosmological 3D radiative transfer simulations of QSO environments for a wide range of host…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Laura C. Keating , Martin G. Haehnelt , Sebastiano Cantalupo , Ewald Puchwein

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

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

We explore the ability of measurements of the 21-cm power spectrum during reionization to enable the simultaneous reconstruction of the reionization history and the properties of the ionizing sources. For various sets of simulated 21-cm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Rennan Barkana

We present new simulations of Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) intensity maps that include Ly$\alpha$ radiative transfer in the intergalactic medium (IGM) and all significant sources of Ly$\alpha$ photons. The sources considered include…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-29 Abigail E. Ambrose , Eli Visbal , Mihir Kulkarni , Matthew McQuinn

It is possible that the properties of HII regions during reionization depend sensitively on many poorly constrained quantities (the nature of the ionizing sources, the clumpiness of the gas in the IGM, the degree to which photo-ionizing…

We present a suite of cosmological radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of the assembly of galaxies driving the reionization of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at z >~ 6. The simulations account for the hydrodynamical feedback from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-11 Andreas H. Pawlik , Joop Schaye , Claudio Dalla Vecchia

Lyman-alpha forest data probing the post-reionization Universe shows surprisingly large opacity fluctuations over rather large ($\ge$50 comoving Mpc/h) spatial scales. We model these fluctuations using a hybrid approach utilizing the large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-21 Jonathan Chardin , Ewald Puchwein , Martin G. Haehnelt

The role of unresolved structures ("mini-halos") in determining the consumption of ionizing photons during cosmic reionization remains an unsolved problem in modeling cosmic reionization, despite recent extensive studies with small-box…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-05 Nickolay Y. Gnedin

We present results from a large volume simulation of Hydrogen reionization. We combine 3d radiative transfer calculations and an N-body simulation, describing structure formation in the intergalactic medium, to detail the growth of HII…

We incorporate quasars into an analytic model to describe the reheating and reionization of the universe. In combination with a previous study of galaxies and Lyman-$\alpha$ clouds, we are able to provide a unified description of structure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Valageas , J. Silk

To simulate the interaction of cosmic rays with the Earth atmosphere requires highly complex computational resources and several statistical techniques have been developed to simplify those calculations. It is common to implement the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-10 A. Estupiñán , H. Asorey , L. A. Núñez

We investigate the large-scale inhomogeneities of the hydrogen ionizing radiation field in the Universe at redshift z=3. Using a raytracing algorithm, we simulate a model in which quasars are the dominant sources of radiation. We make use…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rupert A. C. Croft