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Self-Interacting Dark Matter: From Particle Physics Theories to Structure Formation Simulations
Martin Rosenlyst, Vinh Tran, Oliver Zier +7
We establish a unified theory-to-simulation framework for self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) that integrates three components: (i) a comprehensive, self-contained treatment of its…
Towards robust simulations of the galactic dynamo: a cross-code comparison between Eulerian and Lagrangian schemes
Mark Ivan Ugalino, Benedikt Diemer, Vadim A. Semenov +8
Galactic magnetic fields are thought to be seeded by microscopic processes such as the Biermann battery and are primarily amplified to observed microgauss strengths by dynamo proce…
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…
Weighing Little Red Dots with Transient Events
Vinh Tran, Xuejian Shen, Oliver Zier +3
Recent JWST observations have revealed a large population of compact red sources at , known as Little Red Dots (LRDs), many of which show signatures of accreting massi…
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…
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,…
A Novel Implementation of Self-Interacting Dark Matter in AREPO
Oliver Zier, Xuejian Shen, Vinh Tran +3
Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) influences halo structure through collisional heat transport and may solve several small-scale puzzles in structure formation. SIDM creates ther…
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…
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…
Role of prompt cusps in driving the core collapse of SIDM halos
Vinh Tran, Daniel Gilman, M. Sten Delos +4
Prompt cusps (PCs) form from the direct collapse of overdensities in the early Universe, reside at the center of every dark matter halo, and have density profiles steeper than $r^{…
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-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…
Formation of protostars and the launching of stellar core outflows with moving-mesh radiation non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics
Alexander C. Mayer, Rüdiger Pakmor, Thorsten Naab +5
We present an implementation of radiative transfer with flux-limited diffusion (FLD) for the moving-mesh code {\small AREPO} and use the method in a physical model for the formatio…
The Cosmic Rush Hour: Rapid Formation of Bright, Massive, Disky, Star-Forming Galaxies as Signatures of Early-Universe Physics
Xuejian Shen, Oliver Zier, Mark Vogelsberger +4
Early JWST observations have revealed a high-redshift universe more vibrant than predicted by canonical galaxy-formation models within CDM, showing an excess of ultraviolet(UV)-…
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…
Protostellar disks in their natural habitat -- the formation of protostars and their accretion disks in the turbulent and magnetized interstellar medium
Alexander C. Mayer, Thorsten Naab, Paola Caselli +6
We present simulations of the supernova-driven turbulent interstellar medium (ISM) in a simulation domain of volume within which we resolve the formation of pro…
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…
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…