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The source responsible for reionizing the universe at z > 6 remains uncertain. While an energetically adequate population of star-forming galaxies may be in place, it is unknown whether a large enough fraction of their ionizing radiation…

A large number of high-redshift galaxies have been discovered via their narrow-band Lya line or broad-band continuum colors in recent years. The nature of the escaping process of photons from these early galaxies is crucial to understanding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-16 Hidenobu Yajima , Yuexing Li , Qirong Zhu , Tom Abel , Caryl Gronwall , Robin Ciardullo

The escape fraction of ionizing photons from galaxies is a crucial quantity controlling the cosmic ionizing background radiation and the reionization. Various estimates of this parameter can be obtained in the redshift range, z=0--6, either…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Akio K. Inoue , Ikuru Iwata , Jean-Michel Deharveng

Star-forming galaxies are considered to be the leading candidate sources that dominate the cosmic reionization at z>7, and the search for analogs at moderate redshift showing Lyman continuum (LyC) leakage is currently a active line of…

We present a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between galaxies and the intergalactic medium (IGM) during the late stages of cosmic reionization, based on the complete JWST EIGER dataset. Using deep NIRCam $3.5\,\mathrm{\mu m}$…

We calculate the hydrogen and helium-ionizing radiation escaping star-forming molecular clouds, as a function of the star cluster mass and compactness, using a set of high-resolution radiation-magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-29 Chong-Chong He , Massimo Ricotti , Sam Geen

We investigate the properties of the galaxies that reionized the Universe and the history of cosmic reionization using the "Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their environments" (EAGLE) cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Mahavir Sharma , Tom Theuns , Carlos Frenk , Richard G. Bower , Robert A. Crain , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

We present a series of high-resolution (20-2000 Msun, 0.1-4 pc) cosmological zoom-in simulations at z~6 from the Feedback In Realistic Environment (FIRE) project. These simulations cover halo masses 10^9-10^11 Msun and rest-frame…

Constraints on the ionization structure of the Intergalactic Medium are derived as directly imposed by observations in conjunction with the results of numerical simulations for structure formation. Under the assumption that the population…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Meiksin

We measure escape fractions, $f_{\rm esc}$, of ionizing radiation from galaxies in the SPHINX suite of cosmological radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of reionization, resolving halos with $M_{\rm vir} \gtrapprox 7.5 \times 10^7 \…

The escape fraction of Lyman-continuum (LyC) photons ($f_{esc}$) is a key parameter for determining the sources of cosmic reionization at $z\geq 6$. At these redshifts, owing to the opacity of the intergalactic medium, the LyC emission…

Motivated by recent observations of the star formation rate density function out to z~7, we describe a simple model for the star formation rate density function at high redshift based on the extended Press-Schechter formalism. This model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Stuart Wyithe , Abraham Loeb

The UV escape fraction from high-redshift galaxies plays a key role in models of cosmic reionisation. Because it is currently not possible to deduce the escape fractions during the epoch of reionisation from observations, we have to rely on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jan-Pieter Paardekooper , Federico I. Pelupessy , Gabriel Altay , Chael Kruip

Recent observations have successfully detected UV or infrared flux from galaxies at the epoch of reionization. However, the origin of their radiative properties has not been fully understood yet. Combining cosmological hydrodynamic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-10 Shohei Arata , Hidenobu Yajima , Kentaro Nagamine , Yuexing Li , Sadegh Khochfar

Early results from the JWST observations have reported a surprisingly high number of UV-bright galaxies at $z \geq 10$, which appears to challenge the theoretical predictions from standard galaxy formation models in the $\Lambda$CDM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-30 Anirban Chakraborty , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

We present a systematic study for ionization state of inter-stellar medium in galaxies at z=0-3 with ~140,000 SDSS galaxies and 108 intermediate to high redshift galaxies from the literature, using an ionization-parameter sensitive line…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Kimihiko Nakajima , Masami Ouchi

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

The escape of Lyman continuum (LyC) radiation from early galaxies transformed the intergalactic medium (IGM) and is intimately connected to the fueling and feedback processes that regulate galaxy evolution. IGM attenuation interferes with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-27 Anne E. Jaskot

The reionization of the intergalactic medium at redshifts $z\gtrsim 6$ is expected to have a lasting impact on galaxies residing in low-mass dark matter halos. Unable to accrete or retain gas photo-heated to temperatures $T \gtrsim 10^4$ K,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-14 Jordan Mirocha , Adrian Liu , Paul La Plante

Measurements of the ionisation state of the intergalactic medium (IGM) can probe the sources of the extragalactic ionising background. We provide new measurements of the ionising emissivity of galaxies using measurements of the ionising…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-04 Christopher Cain , Anson D'Aloisio , Julian B. Munoz