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 …

Galaxy Formation and Reionization: Key Unknowns and Expected Breakthroughs by the James Webb Space Telescope

BE Robertson - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in late 2021 marks a new start for
studies of galaxy formation at high redshift (z≳ 6) during the era of cosmic reionization …

Most of the photons that reionized the Universe came from dwarf galaxies

H Atek, I Labbé, LJ Furtak, I Chemerynska, S Fujimoto… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The identification of sources driving cosmic reionization, a major phase transition from
neutral hydrogen to ionized plasma around 600–800 Myr after the Big Bang,–, has been a …

Low-redshift Lyman continuum leaking galaxies with high [O iii]/[O ii] ratios

YI Izotov, G Worseck, D Schaerer… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present observations with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) onboard the Hubble
Space Telescope of five star-forming galaxies at redshifts in the range 0.2993–0.4317 and …

Evolution of the AGN UV luminosity function from redshift 7.5

G Kulkarni, G Worseck… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Determinations of the ultraviolet (UV) luminosity function of active galactic nuclei (AGN) at
high redshifts are important for constraining the AGN contribution to reionization and …

Inferring the astrophysics of reionization and cosmic dawn from galaxy luminosity functions and the 21-cm signal

J Park, A Mesinger, B Greig… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The properties of the first galaxies, expected to drive the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of
Reionization, are encoded in the 3D structure of the cosmic 21-cm signal. Parameter …

J1154+ 2443: a low-redshift compact star-forming galaxy with a 46 per cent leakage of Lyman continuum photons

YI Izotov, D Schaerer, G Worseck… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We report the detection of the Lyman continuum (LyC) radiation of the compact star-forming
galaxy (SFG) J1154+ 2443 observed with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) onboard …

First Light And Reionization Epoch Simulations (FLARES)--II: The photometric properties of high-redshift galaxies

AP Vijayan, CC Lovell, SM Wilkins… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present the photometric properties of galaxies in the First Light And Reionization Epoch
Simulations (FLARES). The simulations trace the evolution of galaxies in a range of …

Cosmic Dawn II (CoDa II): a new radiation-hydrodynamics simulation of the self-consistent coupling of galaxy formation and reionization

P Ocvirk, D Aubert, JG Sorce, PR Shapiro… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Cosmic Dawn II (CoDa II) is a new, fully coupled radiation-hydrodynamics
simulation of cosmic reionization and galaxy formation and their mutual impact, to redshift z< …

Conditions for reionizing the universe with a low galaxy ionizing photon escape fraction

SL Finkelstein, A D'Aloisio… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore scenarios for reionizing the intergalactic medium with low galaxy ionizing
photon escape fractions. We combine simulation-based halo mass–dependent escape …