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20092026
most citedModelling the star-formation activity and ionizing properties of high-redshift galaxies

15 citations · 42 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

SCRIPT in the Cosmic Dawn: Distinguishing Redshift-Evolving Galaxy Populations with 21-cm Fluctuations

Janakee Raste, Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

Recent James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations suggest an unexpectedly high abundance of luminous galaxies at , challenging traditional models of star formatio…

astro-ph.CO2026

Square Kilometer Array Synergies for the Epoch of Reionization and Cosmic Dawn

Anirban Chakraborty, Tirthankar R. Choudhury, Kanan K. Datta +15

Synergies with other instruments will be essential in making, verifying, and interpreting a detection of the cosmic 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) and Cosmic Daw…

astro-ph.CO2026

Reconciling large-scale Lyman- correlations with the SCRIPT Semi-numerical Model

Saptarshi Sarkar, Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

Recent analyses of high-redshift Lyman- forest observations have revealed strong correlations on scales exceeding 200 cMpc at redshift z = 6. Reproducing these large-scale corre…

astro-ph.CO2026

Nearest Neighbour-Based Statistics for 21cm-Galaxy Cross-Correlations in the Epoch of Reionization

Anirban Chakraborty, Kwanit Gangopadhyay, Arka Banerjee +1

21cm radiation from neutral hydrogen serves as a direct probe of the Epoch of Reionization. However, both its detection and physical interpretation are severely hindered by contami…

astro-ph.CO2026

Gravitational Wave Informed Inference of 21-cm Global Signal Parameters

Avinash Tiwari, Sajad A. Bhat, Tirthankar Roy Choudhury +3

Understanding how and when the first stars and galaxies formed remains one of the central challenges in modern cosmology. These structures emerged during the transition from the Da…

astro-ph.IM2025

Accelerating reionization constraints: An ANN-emulator framework for the SCRIPT Semi-numerical Model

Saptarshi Sarkar, Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

Constraining the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) with physically motivated simulations is hampered by the high cost of conventional parameter inference. We present an efficient emulato…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 5 cited

Can an Anti-de Sitter Vacuum in the Dark Energy Sector Explain JWST High-Redshift Galaxy and Reionization Observations?

Anirban Chakraborty, Tirthankar Roy Choudhury, Anjan Ananda Sen +1

The unexpectedly large abundance of UV-bright galaxies at discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope poses a significant challenge to the standard CDM cosmology. This w…

astro-ph.CO2025

Capturing Small-Scale Reionization Physics: A Sub-Grid Model for Photon Sinks with SCRIPT

Tirthankar Roy Choudhury, Anirban Chakraborty

The epoch of reionization represents a major phase transition in cosmic history, during which the first luminous sources ionized the intergalactic medium (IGM). However, the small-…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

Probing Reionization-Era Galaxies with JWST UV Luminosity Functions and Large-Scale Clustering

Anirban Chakraborty, Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

JWST has transformed our understanding of early galaxy formation, providing an unprecedented view of the first billion years of cosmic history. In this work, we build upon our prev…

astro-ph.CO2025

Reionization and its sources

Anirban Chakraborty, Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

Reionization represents an important phase in the history of our Universe when ultraviolet radiation from the first luminous sources, primarily stars and accreting black holes, ion…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Efficient hybrid technique for generating sub-grid haloes in reionization simulations

Ankur Barsode, Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

Simulating the distribution of cosmological neutral hydrogen (HI) during the epoch of reionization requires a high dynamic range and is hence computationally expensive. The size of…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 15 cited

Modelling the star-formation activity and ionizing properties of high-redshift galaxies

Anirban Chakraborty, Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

Early results from the JWST observations have reported a surprisingly high number of UV-bright galaxies at , which appears to challenge the theoretical predictions from…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 3 cited

Simulating the epoch of Helium Reionization in photon-conserving semi-numerical code SCRIPT

Akanksha Kapahtia, Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

The reionization of the second electron of helium (HeII) leaves important imprints on the thermal and ionization state of the intergalactic medium (IGM). Observational evidence sug…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

A GPR-Based Emulator for Semi-numerical Reionization Code SCRIPT: Parameter Inference from 21 cm Data

T. Roy Choudhury, A. Paranjape, B. Maity

Semi-numerical models of reionization typically involve a large number of unknown parameters whose values are constrained by comparing with observations. Increasingly often, explor…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

Probing the Physics of Reionization Using kSZ Power Spectrum from Current and Upcoming CMB Surveys

Divesh Jain, Tirthankar Roy Choudhury, Srinivasan Raghunathan +1

The patchiness in the reionization process alters the statistics of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), with the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect in the CMB temperature powe…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 6 cited

Studying neutral hydrogen structures during the epoch of reionization using fractal dimensions

Bidisha Bandyopadhyay, T. Roy Choudhury, T. R. Seshadri

Fractal dimensions can be used to characterize the clustering and lacunarities in density distributions. We use generalized fractal dimensions to study the neutral hydrogen distrib…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 3 cited

Analytical Models of the Intergalactic Medium and Reionization

T. Roy Choudhury

Reionization is a process whereby hydrogen (and helium) in the Universe is ionized by the radiation from first luminous sources. Theoretically, the importance of the reionization l…