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most citedThe physical origins and dominant emission mechanisms of Lyman-alpha halos: results from the TNG50 simulation in comparison to MUSE observations

66 citations · 320 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

First-Principles Turbulence-Driven Deflagration-to-Detonation Transition Mechanism for Near-Chandrasekhar Mass White Dwarf Progenitors

Krut Patel, Akshay Dongre, Robert Fisher +4

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) play an important role throughout astrophysics, most notably as standardizable cosmological candles. Yet, their stellar progenitors and explosion mechan…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 3 cited

Lyα Nebulae in HETDEX: The Largest Statistical Census Bridging Lyα Halos and Blobs across Cosmic Noon

Erin Mentuch Cooper, Karl Gebhardt, Dustin Davis +20

The Hobby-Eberly Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is an untargeted ~540 deg^2 spectroscopic survey of Lyα emission in the 1.9 < z < 3.5 Universe. In surface brightness, this survey…

astro-ph.GA2026

Inferring the mass of the circumgalactic medium using X-ray resonant scattering

Nhut Truong, Maxim Markevitch, Dylan Nelson +1

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) regulates galaxy growth and retains the imprint of feedback from supernovae and supermassive black holes. However, the bulk of the hot CGM produces…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

Lyα Intensity Mapping in HETDEX: Galaxy-Lyα Intensity Cross-Power Spectrum

Maja Lujan Niemeyer, Eiichiro Komatsu, José Luis Bernal +18

We present a measurement of the Lyman- (Ly) intensity mapping power spectrum from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX). We measure the cross-power spect…

astro-ph.CO2025

Analytic Model for Scattered Ly Emission in the Post-reionization Intergalactic Medium

Hyunbae Park, Hyunmi Song, Chris Byrohl +3

Ly intensity mapping is emerging as a new probe of faint galaxies consisting the cosmic web that elude traditional surveys. However, the resonant nature of Ly radiative trans…

astro-ph.GA2025

THOR: a GPU-accelerated and MPI-parallel radiative transfer code

Chris Byrohl, Dylan Nelson

Emission and absorption line features are important diagnostics for the physics underlying extragalactic astronomy. The interpretation of observed signatures involves comparing aga…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Simulating realistic Lyman- emitting galaxies including the effect of radiative transfer

Hasti Khoraminezhad, Shun Saito, Max Gronke +1

We present an empirical yet physically motivated simulation of realistic Lyman- emitters (LAEs) at , crucial for ongoing and forthcoming cosmological LAE surveys. We c…

astro-ph.GA2025

Disentangling the galactic and intergalactic components in 313 observed Lyman-alpha line profiles between redshift 0 and 5

Siddhartha Gurung-López, Chris Byrohl, Max Gronke +5

Lyman-Alpha (Lya) photons emitted in star-forming galaxies undergo complex radiative transfer through the interstellar (ISM), circumgalactic (CGM), and intergalactic medium (IGM),…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

zELDA II: reconstruction of galactic Lyman-alpha spectra attenuated by the intergalactic medium using neural networks

Siddhartha Gurung-Lopez, Chris Byrohl, Max Gronke +5

The observed Lyman-Alpha (Lya) line profile is a convolution of the complex Lya radiative transfer taking place in the interstellar, circumgalactic and intergalactic medium (ISM, C…

astro-ph.IM2024

votess: A multi-target, GPU-capable, parallel Voronoi tessellator

Samridh Dev Singh, Chris Byrohl, Dylan Nelson

votess is a library for computing parallel 3D Voronoi tessellations on heterogeneous platforms, from CPUs and GPUs, to future accelerator architectures. To do so, it leverages the…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

Introducing cosmosTNG: simulating galaxy formation with constrained realizations of the COSMOS field

Chris Byrohl, Dylan Nelson, Benjamin Horowitz +2

We introduce the new cosmological simulation project cosmosTNG, a first-of-its-kind suite of constrained galaxy formation simulations for the universe at Cosmic Noon (). c…

astro-ph.IM2024

scida: scalable analysis for scientific big data

Chris Byrohl, Dylan Nelson

scida is a Python package for reading and analyzing large scientific data sets with support for various cosmological and galaxy formation simulations out-of-the-box. Data access is…

astro-ph.GA2024

Absorption Troughs of Lyman Alpha Emitters in HETDEX

Laurel H. Weiss, Dustin Davis, Karl Gebhardt +21

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is designed to detect and measure the redshifts of more than one million Ly emitting galaxies (LAEs) between $1.88 < z…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 19 cited

Resonant scattering of the OVII X-ray emission line in the circumgalactic medium of TNG50 galaxies

Dylan Nelson, Chris Byrohl, Anna Ogorzalek +15

We study the impact of resonantly scattered X-ray line emission on the observability of the hot circumgalactic medium (CGM) of galaxies. We apply a Monte Carlo radiative transfer p…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 20 cited

The cosmic web in Lyman-alpha emission

Chris Byrohl, Dylan Nelson

We develop a comprehensive theoretical model for Lyman-alpha emission, from the scale of individual Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) to Lyman-alpha halos (LAHs), Lyman-alpha blobs (LABs…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 35 cited

Surface Brightness Profile of Lyman- Halos out to 320 kpc in HETDEX

Maja Lujan Niemeyer, Eiichiro Komatsu, Chris Byrohl +18

We present the median-stacked Lyman- surface brightness profile of 968 spectroscopically selected Lyman- emitting galaxies (LAEs) at redshifts in the early data o…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 44 cited

The cold circumgalactic medium in emission: MgII halos in TNG50

Dylan Nelson, Chris Byrohl, Celine Peroux +2

We outline theoretical predictions for extended emission from MgII, tracing cool ~10^4 K gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of star-forming galaxies in the high-resolution TNG5…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 14 cited

Cosmological 3D HI Gas Map with HETDEX Ly Emitters and eBOSS QSOs at : IGM-Galaxy/QSO Connection and a 40-Mpc Scale Giant HII Bubble Candidate

Shiro Mukae, Masami Ouchi, Gary J. Hill +20

We present cosmological ( Mpc) distributions of neutral hydrogen (HI) in the inter-galactic medium (IGM) traced by Ly Emitters (LAEs) and QSOs at , selected w…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 66 cited

The physical origins and dominant emission mechanisms of Lyman-alpha halos: results from the TNG50 simulation in comparison to MUSE observations

Chris Byrohl, Dylan Nelson, Christoph Behrens +6

Extended Lyman-alpha emission is now commonly detected around high redshift galaxies through stacking and even on individual basis. Despite recent observational advances, the physi…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 25 cited

Variations of Observed Lyman-α Spectra Shapes due to the Intergalactic Absorption

Chris Byrohl, Max Gronke

Lyman- (Ly) spectra provide insights into the small-scale structure and kinematics of neutral hydrogen (HI) within galaxies as well as the ionization state of the intergalact…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 19 cited

Radiative Transfer Distortions of Lyman- Emitters: a New Fingers-of-God Damping in the Clustering in Redshift Space

Chris Byrohl, Shun Saito, Christoph Behrens

Complex radiative transfer (RT) of the Lyman- photons poses a theoretical challenge to galaxy surveys which infer the large-scale structure with Lyman- emitters (LAEs). Guide…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 7 cited

The Intrinsic Stochasticity of the Ni Distribution of Single-Degenerate Type Ia Supernovae

Chris Byrohl, Robert T. Fisher, Dean M. Townsley

Binary Chandrasekhar-mass white dwarfs accreting mass from non-degenerate stellar companions through the single-degenerate channel have reigned for decades as the leading explanati…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 29 cited

The impact of Lyman- radiative transfer on large-scale clustering in the Illustris simulation

Christoph Behrens, Chris Byrohl, Shun Saito +1

Lyman- emitters (LAEs) are a promising probe of the large-scale structure at high redshift, . In particular, the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment aims a…