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astro-ph.CO2026

Consistently Reproducing Early Galaxy Observations and 21-cm Signal during the Epoch of Reionization

Michele Bianco, Sambit K. Giri, Arghyadeep Basu\orcidlink +5

In the standard cosmological model, galaxies forming within dark matter haloes are the primary drivers of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). The complex physics of galaxy formation i…

astro-ph.CO2026

Dynamic Zoom Simulations of structure formation beyond standard cosmology

Riccardo Zangarelli, Marco Baldi, Federico Marinacci +1

(Abridged) A thorough interpretation of the current and upcoming generation of cosmological observations requires unprecedented large-scale, high-resolution simulations spanning mu…

astro-ph.CO2025

The THESAN project: Lyman-alpha intensity mapping of cosmic reionization

Mouza Almualla, Aaron Smith, Rahul Kannan +6

Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) has garnered attention as a powerful cosmological probe, with next-generation instruments such as SPHEREx preparing to map the evolution of large-scale…

astro-ph.CO2025

Detecting the signature of helium reionization through 3HeII 3.46cm line-intensity mapping

Benedetta Spina, Cristiano Porciani, Sarah E. I. Bosman +4

Helium reionization is the most recent phase change of the intergalactic medium, yet its timing and main drivers remain uncertain. Among the probes to trace its unfolding, the 3.46…

astro-ph.CO2025

Probing Helium Reionization Through the Hyperfine Transition Line

Arghyadeep Basu, Benedetta Ciardi, Enrico Garaldi

We investigate the hyperfine transition of as a promising probe of the IGM during the final stages of helium reionization. Utilising the most recent helium re…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

The THESAN project: environmental drivers of Local Group reionization

Yu Zhao, Aaron Smith, Rahul Kannan +5

The timing of cosmic reionization across Local Group (LG) analogues provides insights into their early histories and surrounding large-scale structure. Using the radiation-hydrodyn…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 3 cited

The galaxy-IGM connection in THESAN: the physics connecting the IGM Lyman- opacity and galaxy density in the reionization epoch

Enrico Garaldi, Verena Bellscheidt, A. Smith +1

The relation between the Lyman- effective optical depth of quasar sightlines () and the distribution of galaxies around them is an emerging probe of the connecti…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 3 cited

The galaxy-IGM connection in THESAN: observability and information content of the galaxy-Lyman- cross-correlation at z6

Enrico Garaldi, Verena Bellscheidt, Aaron Smith +1

The galaxy--Lyman- cross-correlation (GaLaCC) is a promising tool to study the interplay of galaxies and inter-galactic medium (IGM) in the first billion years of the Universe.…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 6 cited

Matter power spectrum induced by primordial magnetic fields: from the linear to the non-linear regime

Pranjal Ralegankar, Enrico Garaldi, Matteo Viel

Linear theory predicts that primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) enhance the matter power spectrum on small scales. However, the linear approximation breaks down on sufficiently small…

astro-ph.CO2023

Cosmic variance suppression in radiation-hydrodynamic modeling of the reionization-era 21-cm signal

Anshuman Acharya, Enrico Garaldi, Benedetta Ciardi +1

The 21-cm line emitted by neutral hydrogen is the most promising probe of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Multiple radio interferometric instruments are on the cusp of detecting i…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 7 cited

CoReCon: an open, community-powered collection of Reionization constraints

Enrico Garaldi

The number of available constraints on the Universe during and before cosmic reionization is rapidly growing. These are often scattered across inhomogeneous formats, unit systems a…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 3 cited

The thesan project: public data release of radiation-hydrodynamic simulations matching reionization-era JWST observations

Enrico Garaldi, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith +13

Cosmological simulations serve as invaluable tools for understanding the Universe. However, the technical complexity and substantial computational resources required to generate su…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 1 cited

Bridging the Gap between Cosmic Dawn and Reionization favors Faint Galaxies-dominated Models

Ankita Bera, Sultan Hassan, Aaron Smith +4

It has been claimed that traditional models struggle to explain the tentative detection of the 21\,cm absorption trough centered at measured by the EDGES collaboration. O…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 21 cited

An Effective Bias Expansion for 21 cm Cosmology in Redshift Space

Wenzer Qin, Katelin Schutz, Aaron Smith +4

A near-future detection of the 21cm signal from the epoch of reionization will provide unique opportunities to probe the underlying cosmology, provided that such cosmological infor…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 73 cited

The THESAN project: predictions for multi-tracer line intensity mapping in the epoch of reionization

Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith, Enrico Garaldi +5

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is rapidly emerging as a powerful technique to study galaxy formation and cosmology in the high-redshift Universe. We present LIM estimates of select s…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 104 cited

The THESAN project: Lyman-alpha emission and transmission during the Epoch of Reionization

A. Smith, R. Kannan, E. Garaldi +4

The visibility of high-redshift Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies (LAEs) provides important constraints on galaxy formation processes and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). However, pred…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 125 cited

The THESAN project: properties of the intergalactic medium and its connection to Reionization-era galaxies

Enrico Garaldi, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith +4

The high-redshift intergalactic medium (IGM) and the primeval galaxy population are rapidly becoming the new frontier of extra-galactic astronomy. We investigate the IGM properties…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 4 cited

Dynamic Zoom Simulations: a fast, adaptive algorithm for simulating lightcones

Enrico Garaldi, Matteo Nori, Marco Baldi

The advent of a new generation of large-scale galaxy surveys is pushing cosmological numerical simulations in an uncharted territory. The simultaneous requirements of high resoluti…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 24 cited

Constraining the Tail-End of Reionization Using Lyman- Transmission Spikes

Enrico Garaldi, Nickolay Gnedin, Piero Madau

We investigate Lyman- transmission spikes at in synthetic quasar spectra, and discuss their connection to the properties of the intergalactic medium and their ability to…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 28 cited

The Goldilocks problem of the quasar contribution to reionization

Enrico Garaldi, Michele Compostella, Cristiano Porciani

The detection of an unexpectedly large number of faint candidate quasars (QSO) at has motivated Madau and Haardt to investigate a reionization scenario in which activ…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 102 cited

ZOMG-I. How the cosmic web inhibits halo growth and generates assembly bias

Mikolaj Borzyszkowski, Cristiano Porciani, Emilio Romano-Diaz +1

The clustering of dark matter haloes with fixed mass depends on their formation history, an effect known as assembly bias. We use zoom N -body simulations to investigate the origin…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 6 cited

Zoomed high-resolution simulations of Multi-coupled Dark Energy: cored galaxy density profiles at high redshift

E. Garaldi, M. Baldi, L. Moscardini

We perform for the first time high-resolution zoom-in re-simulations of individual halos in the context of the Multi-coupled Dark Energy (McDE) scenario, which is characterised by…