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 …

Modeling cosmic reionization

NY Gnedin, P Madau - Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics, 2022 - Springer
The transformation of cold neutral intergalactic hydrogen into a highly ionized warm plasma
marks the end of the cosmic dark ages and the beginning of the age of galaxies. The details …

Introducing the thesan project: radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the epoch of reionization

R Kannan, E Garaldi, A Smith, R Pakmor… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We introduce the thesan project, a suite of large volume () radiation-magnetohydrodynamic
simulations that simultaneously model the large-scale statistical properties of the …

Morphologies of Galaxies at z≳ 9 Uncovered by JWST/NIRCam Imaging: Cosmic Size Evolution and an Identification of an Extremely Compact Bright Galaxy at z∼ 12

Y Ono, Y Harikane, M Ouchi, H Yajima… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present morphologies of galaxies at z≳ 9 resolved by JWST/NIRCam 2–5 μm imaging.
Our sample consists of 22 galaxy candidates identified by stringent dropout and photo-z …

A survey of high-z galaxies: serra simulations

A Pallottini, A Ferrara, S Gallerani… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We introduce serra, a suite of zoom-in high-resolution (, at z= 7.7) cosmological simulations
including non-equilibrium chemistry and on-the-fly radiative transfer. The outputs are post …

LyC escape from sphinx galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization

J Rosdahl, J Blaizot, H Katz, T Kimm… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We measure escape fractions, f esc, of ionizing radiation from galaxies in the sphinx suite of
cosmological radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of reionization, resolving haloes with …

A Census of the Bright z= 8.5–11 Universe with the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes in the CANDELS Fields

SL Finkelstein, M Bagley, M Song… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results from a new search for candidate galaxies at z≈ 8.5–11 discovered
over the 850 arcmin 2 area probed by the Cosmic Assembly Near-Infrared Deep …

Public data release of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation

A Wetzel, CC Hayward, RE Sanderson… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe a public data release of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy
formation (available at http://flathub. flatironinstitute. org/fire) from the Feedback In Realistic …

The thesan project: properties of the intergalactic medium and its connection to reionization-era galaxies

E Garaldi, R Kannan, A Smith, V Springel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The high-redshift intergalactic medium (IGM) and the primeval galaxy population are rapidly
becoming the new frontier of extragalactic astronomy. We investigate the IGM properties and …

The SPHINX cosmological simulations of the first billion years: the impact of binary stars on reionization

J Rosdahl, H Katz, J Blaizot, T Kimm… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present the sphinx suite of cosmological adaptive mesh refinement simulations, the first
radiation-hydrodynamical simulations to simultaneously capture large-scale reionization …