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The THESAN-ZOOM project: the delayed rise of Lyman continuum escape fractions in bursty high-redshift galaxies
Parth Mehrotra, Aaron Smith, Yuan Bian +13
The ionizing radiation that galaxies release into their surroundings depends on whether efficient Lyman continuum (LyC) escape coincides with strong photon production. Stellar feed…
The Lumina Project: Morphology of Ionized Bubbles and Neutral Islands
Meredith Neyer, Aaron Smith, Ali Sadain +10
The Epoch of Reionization is characterized by the nucleation, expansion, and percolation of ionized bubbles in the intergalactic medium. Interpreting emerging multi-wavelength obse…
RIGEL: Ultra-faint dwarf galaxy diversity shaped by inhomogeneous cosmic reionization
Yunwei Deng, Hui Li, Ewald Puchwein +7
Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs) are among the smallest and oldest galaxies in the Universe and are widely regarded as relics of cosmic reionization. To investigate how reionizati…
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…
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 Lumina Project: Intergalactic Clumping and Recombination Sinks
Ali Sadain, Aaron Smith, Oliver Zier +10
Recombinations during the Epoch of Reionization are intrinsically inhomogeneous, with different regions of the intergalactic medium contributing unevenly depending on their density…
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…
A framework for modelling Population III stars in cosmological simulations
Bipradeep Saha, Rahul Kannan, Giovanni M. Mirouh
Population III (Pop III) stars are the first generation of stars to form in the universe, emerging from primordial gas composed mainly of hydrogen and helium. They play a crucial r…
The Lumina Project: The Demographics of Active Galactic Nuclei from Quasars to Little Red Dots at
Xuejian Shen, Oliver Zier, Aaron Smith +16
High-redshift active galactic nuclei (AGN) serve as powerful probes of early black-hole growth, galaxy formation, and the evolving intergalactic medium (IGM). In this work, we use…
The Lumina Project: CMB Optical Depth Fluctuations from Patchy Reionization
Aaron Smith, Oliver Zier, Rahul Kannan +8
Patchy reionization couples the ionized-bubble morphology to the underlying density field, making the CMB Thomson optical depth sensitive to both the global ionization history and…
Introducing the Lumina project: large-volume radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of the epochs of hydrogen and helium reionization
Oliver Zier, Aaron Smith, Xuejian Shen +8
Understanding how galaxies and active galactic nuclei (AGN) jointly drive the reionization of the intergalactic medium (IGM) across cosmic time remains a major challenge in cosmolo…
Identifying signatures of inflow onto face-on galaxies using the Balmer decrement
Meghna Sitaram, Hui Li, Yong Zheng +4
Isolated star-forming galaxies require inflows of fresh gas from the surrounding medium to sustain episodes of star formation over time. However, there are very few direct detectio…
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…
RIGEL: Feedback-regulated cloud-scale star formation efficiency in a simulated dwarf galaxy merger
Yunwei Deng, Hui Li, Federico Marinacci +5
Major mergers of galaxies are likely to trigger bursty star formation activities. The accumulation of dense gas and the boost of star formation efficiency (SFE) are considered to b…
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…
The Entangling of Supernova Feedback Impacts with Coarsening Simulation Resolution
Eric Zhang, Laura V. Sales, Thales A. Gutcke +11
It is often understood that supernova (SN) feedback in galaxies is responsible for regulating star formation (SF) and generating gaseous outflows. However, a detailed look at the s…
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…
Measuring the splashback feature: Dependence on halo properties and history
Qiaorong S. Yu, Stephanie O'Neil, Xuejian Shen +7
In this study, we define the novel splashback depth and width to examine how the splashback features of dark matter haloes are affected by the physical…
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-…