Early galaxy formation and its large-scale effects

P Dayal, A Ferrara - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Galaxy formation is at the heart of our understanding of cosmic evolution. Although there is a
consensus that galaxies emerged from the expanding matter background by gravitational …

A scheme for radiation pressure and photon diffusion with the M1 closure in ramses-rt

J Rosdahl, R Teyssier - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We describe and test an updated version of radiation-hydrodynamics in the ramses code,
that includes three new features:(i) radiation pressure on gas,(ii) accurate treatment of …

Self-consistent modeling of reionization in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations

J Oñorbe, JF Hennawi, Z Lukić - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The ultraviolet background (UVB) emitted by quasars and galaxies governs the ionization
and thermal state of the intergalactic medium (IGM), regulates the formation of high-redshift …

Dark-ages reionization and galaxy formation simulation–III. Modelling galaxy formation and the epoch of reionization

SJ Mutch, PM Geil, GB Poole, PW Angel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We introduce meraxes, a new, purpose-built semi-analytic galaxy formation model designed
for studying galaxy growth during reionization. meraxes is the first model of its type to …

A systematic study of the escape of LyC and Lyα photons from star-forming, magnetized turbulent clouds

T Kimm, R Bieri, S Geen, J Rosdahl… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Understanding the escape of Lyman continuum (LyC) and Lyα photons from giant molecular
clouds (GMCs) is crucial if we are to study the reionization of the universe and to interpret …

SCORCH. I. The galaxy–halo connection in the first billion years

H Trac, R Cen, P Mansfield - The Astrophysical Journal, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT SCORCH (Simulations and Constructions of the Reionization of Cosmic
Hydrogen) is a new project to study the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). In this first paper, we …

AMBER: A Semi-numerical Abundance Matching Box for the Epoch of Reionization

H Trac, N Chen, I Holst, MA Alvarez… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Abundance Matching Box for the Epoch of Reionization (AMBER) is a semi-
numerical code for modeling the cosmic dawn. The new algorithm is not based on the …

The Aurora radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of reionization: calibration and first results

AH Pawlik, A Rahmati, J Schaye, M Jeon… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We introduce a new suite of radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation and
reionization called Aurora. The Aurora simulations make use of a spatially adaptive radiative …

Large-scale simulations of H and He reionization and heating driven by stars and more energetic sources

MB Eide, B Ciardi, L Graziani, P Busch… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present simulations of cosmic reionization and reheating from z= 18 to z= 5,
investigating the role of stars (emitting soft UV-photons), nuclear black holes (BHs, with …

Inhomogeneous reionization models in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations

J Oñorbe, FB Davies, Z Lukić… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
In this work we present a new hybrid method to simulate the thermal effects of reionization in
cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. The method improves upon the standard …