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 …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Planck intermediate results-XLVII. Planck constraints on reionization history

R Adam, N Aghanim, M Ashdown, J Aumont… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
We investigate constraints on cosmic reionization extracted from the Planck cosmic
microwave background (CMB) data. We combine the Planck CMB anisotropy data in …

Quantitative constraints on the reionization history from the IGM damping wing signature in two quasars at z> 7

FB Davies, JF Hennawi, E Bañados… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
During reionization, neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM) imprints a damping
wing absorption feature on the spectrum of high-redshift quasars. A detection of this …

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 …

Planck intermediate results-XXX. The angular power spectrum of polarized dust emission at intermediate and high Galactic latitudes

R Adam, PAR Ade, N Aghanim, M Arnaud… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
The polarized thermal emission from diffuse Galactic dust is the main foreground present in
measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at …

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 …

Alleviating the need for exponential evolution of JWST galaxies in 1010 M⊙ haloes at z> 10 by a modified ΛCDM power spectrum

H Padmanabhan, A Loeb - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We infer the evolution of the UV luminosities of galaxies in haloes of masses 10 10–10 11
M⊙ in the redshift range of z∼ 9–16 from the recent JWST data. Within the standard ΛCDM …