Publications (27)
TORRCH: Tomographic reconstruction of the reionization of cosmic hydrogen with Ly emitters and non-Ly-selected galaxies
Soumak Maitra, Girish Kulkarni, Vipul Arora +5
Tomographic reconstruction of reionization is a long-sought goal. It would move the field beyond global summary statistics, such as the volume-averaged ionised fraction, to direct,…
The clustering of C IV and Si IV at the end of reionisation: A perspective from the E-XQR-30 survey
Louise Welsh, Valentina D'Odorico, Fabio Fontanot +14
We aim to study the clustering of metal absorption lines and the structures that they arise in as a function of cosmic time. We focus on C IV and Si IV absorption features that are…
IGM damping wing constraints on the tail end of reionisation from the enlarged XQR-30 sample
Bradley Greig, Andrei Mesinger, Eduardo Bañados +16
The attenuation of Ly photons by neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM) at continues to be a powerful probe for studying the epoch of reionisation. Give…
The Thesan-Zoom project: bursty star formation is incompatible with prolonged dust survival
Enrico Garaldi, Filip Popovic, Rahul Kannan +11
Cosmic dust is a key regulator of galaxy evolution, but its build-up and survival in the first billion years remain poorly constrained. We present a systematic analysis of dust in…
Metallicity Gradients in Modern Cosmological Simulations II: The Role of Bursty Versus Smooth Feedback at High-Redshift
Alex M. Garcia, Paul Torrey, Aniket Bhagwat +22
The distribution of gas-phase metals within galaxies encodes the impact of stellar feedback on galactic evolution. At high-redshift, when galaxies are rapidly assembling, feedback-…
The Lyman- emitter bispectrum as a probe of reionization morphology
Soumak Maitra, Girish Kulkarni, Shikhar Asthana +3
Ly emitters (LAEs) have now been discovered out to redshift , and are valuable probes of the reionization history at redshifts beyond the reach of other currently availab…
COMAP Early Science: VII. Prospects for CO Intensity Mapping at Reionization
Patrick C. Breysse, Dongwoo T. Chung, Kieran A. Cleary +29
We introduce COMAP-EoR, the next generation of the Carbon Monoxide Mapping Array Project aimed at extending CO intensity mapping to the Epoch of Reionization. COMAP-EoR supplements…
The THESAN project: Lyman-alpha emitters as probes of ionized bubble sizes
Meredith Neyer, Aaron Smith, Mark Vogelsberger +4
We use the THESAN radiation-hydrodynamics simulations to investigate how Lyman- emitters (LAEs) trace ionized bubble sizes during the Epoch of Reionization. We generate realist…
The THESAN-ZOOM project: Star formation efficiency from giant molecular clouds to galactic scale in high-redshift starbursts
Zihao Wang, Xuejian Shen, Mark Vogelsberger +12
Star formation in galaxies is inherently complex, involving the interplay of physical processes over a hierarchy of spatial scales. In this work, we investigate the connection betw…
The THESAN-ZOOM project: The Hidden Neighbours of OI Absorbers during Reionization
Giulia Pruto, Laura Keating, Rahul Kannan +9
Metal absorbers represent a powerful probe of galaxy feedback and reionization, as highlighted by both observational and theoretical results showing an increased abundance of low-i…
The THESAN-ZOOM project: Long-term imprints of external reionization on galaxy evolution
Oliver Zier, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith +8
We investigate the impact of ionizing external ultraviolet (UV) radiation on low-mass haloes () at high redshift using baryonic resolution zoom-…
How probable is the Lyman- damping wing in the spectrum of the redshift z = 5.9896 quasar ULAS J0148+0600?
Fiona Sawyer, James S. Bolton, George D. Becker +5
The shape of the Ly- transmission in the near zone of the redshift quasar ULAS J01480600 (hereafter J0148) is consistent with a damping wing arising from an exten…
Percent-level timing of reionization: self-consistent, implicit-likelihood inference from XQR-30+ Ly forest data
Yuxiang Qin, Andrei Mesinger, David PrelogoviÄ +13
The Lyman alpha (Lya) forest in the spectra of z>5 quasars provides a powerful probe of the late stages of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). With the recent advent of exquisite data…
Assuming Ionization Equilibrium and the Impact on the Lyman- Forest Power Spectrum during the End of Reionization at
Samir KuÅ¡miÄ, Kristian Finlator, Laura Keating +1
We explore how the assumption of ionization equilibrium modulates the modeled intergalactic medium (IGM) at the end of the hydrogen Epoch of Reionization using the cosmological rad…
Reionization in Technicolor
Kristian Finlator, Laura Keating, Benjamin D. Oppenheimer +2
We present the Technicolor Dawn simulations, a suite of cosmological radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of the first 1.2 billion years. By modeling a spatially-inhomogeneous UVB on…
Extended red wings and the visibility of reionization-epoch Lyman- emitters
Yuxuan Yuan, Sergio Martin-Alvarez, Martin G. Haehnelt +4
The visibility of the Lyman- (Ly) emission from reionization-epoch galaxies depends sensitively on the extent of the intrinsic \lya emission redwards of 1215.67~Ã . The pro…
The THESAN-ZOOM project: Mystery N/O more -- uncovering the origin of peculiar chemical abundances and a not-so-fundamental metallicity relation at
William McClymont, Sandro Tacchella, Aaron Smith +15
We present an analysis of metallicities and chemical abundances at in the THESAN-ZOOM simulations. We find that smoothly curved gas-phase and stellar mass-metallicity rela…
From THESAN-ZOOM to JWST: Predicting ionizing photon escape and the rise of UV-bright reionization sources
Zebedee Summerfield, William McClymont, Sandro Tacchella +14
Understanding the sources and evolution of cosmic reionization remains a central challenge in astrophysics, with the escape of ionizing Lyman-continuum (LyC) photons from early gal…
Introducing the THESAN-ZOOM project: radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of high-redshift galaxies with a multi-phase interstellar medium
Rahul Kannan, Ewald Puchwein, Aaron Smith +11
We introduce the THESAN-ZOOM project, a comprehensive suite of high-resolution zoom-in simulations of high-redshift () galaxies selected from the THESAN simulation volume…
The CCAT-Prime Submillimeter Observatory
Manuel Aravena, Jason Austermann, Kaustuv Basu +53
The Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope-prime (CCAT-prime) is a new 6-m, off-axis, low-emissivity, large field-of-view submillimeter telescope scheduled for first light in the last…
The THESAN-ZOOM project: Population III star formation continues until the end of reionization
Oliver Zier, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith +8
Population III (Pop III) stars are the first stars in the Universe, forming from pristine, metal-free gas and marking the end of the cosmic dark ages. Their formation rate is expec…
Evidence of Pop~III stars' chemical signature in neutral gas at z~6. A study based on the E-XQR-30 spectroscopic sample
Alessio Sodini, Valentina D'Odorico, Stefania Salvadori +16
This study explores the metal enrichment signatures attributed to the first generation of stars (PopIII) in the Universe, focusing on the E-XQR-30 sample. We aim to identify traces…
The THESAN-ZOOM project: Burst, quench, repeat -- unveiling the evolution of high-redshift galaxies along the star-forming main sequence
William McClymont, Sandro Tacchella, Aaron Smith +10
Characterizing the evolution of the star-forming main sequence (SFMS) at high redshift is crucial to contextualize the observed extreme properties of galaxies in the early Universe…
Globular cluster abundance patterns inherited from giant molecular clouds
William McClymont, Vasily Belokurov, Sandro Tacchella +16
Globular clusters exhibit large star-to-star variations and anticorrelations in their light element abundances that are commonly interpreted in terms of in-cluster self-enrichment,…
The THESAN-ZOOM project: Star-formation efficiencies in high-redshift galaxies
Xuejian Shen, Rahul Kannan, Ewald Puchwein +10
Recent JWST observations hint at unexpectedly intense cosmic star-formation in the early Universe, often attributed to enhanced star-formation efficiencies (SFEs). Here, we analyze…
Overmassive black holes in the early Universe can be explained by gas-rich, dark matter-dominated galaxies
William McClymont, Sandro Tacchella, Xihan Ji +12
JWST has revealed the apparent evolution of the black hole (BH)-stellar mass (-$M_\rm{\ast}$) relation in the early Universe, while remaining consistent with the BH-…
The THESAN-ZOOM project: central starbursts and inside-out quenching govern galaxy sizes in the early Universe
William McClymont, Sandro Tacchella, Aaron Smith +9
We explore the evolution of galaxy sizes at high redshift () using the high-resolution THESAN-ZOOM radiation-hydrodynamics simulations, focusing on the mass range of $1…