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Can Blue UV-Bright Galaxies Drive Reionization at Cosmic Dawn? An Galaxy with at
Yunjing Wu, Sijia Cai, Yongda Zhu +28
We revisit EBG-1, a gravitationally lensed galaxy at , using newly obtained deep (14 hr) JWST/NIRSpec G235M () spectroscopy. EBG-1 is one of the bluest gala…
The THESAN-ZOOM project: clumpiness of high-redshift galaxies and its connection to bursty star formation
Zihao Wang, Xuejian Shen, Rahul Kannan +12
Recent JWST observations have revealed diverse high-redshift galaxy morphologies, including a population with irregular and clumpy structures. The physical origin of these structur…
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…
Magnetogenesis by galactic processes: impact on circumgalactic and intergalactic fields
Rahul Ramesh, Enrico Garaldi, Chris Byrohl
We investigate the origin and evolution of cosmic magnetic fields using a suite of large-volume cosmological magnetohydrodynamic simulations (L Mpc/h) run with th…
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,…
Probing Direct Contributions of Galaxies and AGN to Cosmic Reionization in a Quasar Field J0226+0302 with JWST NIRCam and NIRSpec
Xiangyu Jin, Jinyi Yang, Feige Wang +19
We present JWST Cycle 2 NIRCam and NIRSpec observations in a quasar field J0226+0302 at z=6.5412 to probe the direct connections between the intergalactic medium (IGM), galaxies, a…
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…
Gas distributions inside and around haloes in the alternative dark matter simulations AIDA-TNG
Chi Zhang, Enrico Garaldi, Giulia Despali +3
The nature of Dark Matter (DM) is one of the greatest mysteries of modern astrophysics. While the standard Cold DM (CDM) model successfully explains observations on most astrophysi…
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 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 realisti…
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…
Influence of the Spectral Energy Distribution of Reionization-Era Sources on the Lyman- Forest
Arghyadeep Basu, Benedetta Ciardi, James S. Bolton +2
Interpreting Lyman- forest properties during the epoch of reionization requires assumptions about the spectral energy distribution (SED) of ionizing sources. These are often sim…
High-redshift AGN population in radiation-hydrodynamics simulations
Teodora-Elena Bulichi, Oliver Zier, Aaron Smith +7
High-redshift active galactic nuclei (AGN) have long been recognized as key probes of early black hole growth and galaxy evolution. However, modeling this population remains diffic…
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…
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: 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…
JWST ASPIRE: How Did Galaxies Complete Reionization? Evidence for Excess IGM Transmission around Emitters during Reionization
Koki Kakiichi, Xiangyu Jin, Feige Wang +23
The spatial correlation between galaxies and the Ly forest provides insights into how galaxies reionized the Universe. Here, we present initial results on the spatial cross-corr…
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…
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…
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…
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-…
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…
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 THESAN project: tracking the expansion and merger histories of ionized bubbles during the Epoch of Reionization
Nathan Jamieson, Aaron Smith, Meredith Neyer +7
The growth of ionized hydrogen bubbles in the intergalactic medium around early luminous objects is a fundamental process during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). In this study, we…