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most citedCan supermassive stars form in protogalaxies due to internal Lyman-Werner feedback?

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astro-ph.CO2026

Toward Precision Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Cosmology---1. The Matter - Momentum Bispectrum at One-Loop Order

Ryan Raikman, James M. Sullivan, Jamie Sullivan +1

The kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect is a sensitive probe of the free-electron momentum field, tapping into spatial correlations relevant for both large-scale cosmology and s…

astro-ph.CO2026

Sample Variance Cancellation for Future Spectroscopic Surveys

James M. Sullivan, Martin White

High-redshift spectroscopic galaxy surveys will be the scientific engines of the next generation of large-scale structure cosmology. The clustering signal of high redshift, star-fo…

astro-ph.CO2026

Cosmological Concordance in an Especially Opaque Universe: A Tentative Cosmological Detection of Physical Neutrino Mass in CDM

James M. Sullivan, Roger de Belsunce, Mikhail M. Ivanov

The measurement of the sum of neutrino masses is among the primary promises of precision cosmology, achievable by combining complementary early- and late-Universe probes. However,…

astro-ph.CO2026

Lyman-Alpha Forest and its Cross-Correlation with High-Redshift Galaxies in Effective Field Theory at the Field Level

Roger de Belsunce, Mikhail M. Ivanov, James M. Sullivan +2

We present a field-level perturbative forward model for the Lyman-alpha (Lya) forest flux decrement. We validate it on two simulation suites: large-volume AbacusSummit N-body simul…

astro-ph.GA2026

ArkenstoneBH. A model for high-specific energy black hole feedback in cosmological simulations

James M. Sullivan, Greg L. Bryan, Matthew C. Smith +6

AGN feedback is a key piece of galaxy evolution but is difficult to model due to its high specific energies, multiphase nature, and limited simulation resolutions. Arkenstone is a…

astro-ph.CO2026

Fast radio burst dispersion is an unbiased tracer of matter on large scales

Shion Andrew, Haochen Wang, Kiyoshi Masui +6

The dispersion of fast radio bursts (FRBs) measures the column density of free electrons, tracing the diffuse ionized gas that contains more than of all baryons. On linear s…

astro-ph.CO2026

Reanalyzing DESI DR1: 4. Percent-Level Cosmological Constraints from Combined Probes and Robust Evidence for the Normal Neutrino Mass Hierarchy

Mikhail M. Ivanov, James M. Sullivan, Roger de Belsunce +4

We present cosmological parameter measurements from the full combination of DESI DR1 galaxy clustering data, described with large-scale structure effective field theory. By incorpo…

astro-ph.CO2025

Kinetic Mixing and the Phantom Illusion: Axion-Dilaton Quintessence in Light of DESI DR2

Michael W. Toomey, Ellie Hughes, Mikhail M. Ivanov +1

Recent results from DESI BAO analyses suggest that dark energy may not be a cosmological constant and is in fact dynamical. Furthermore, the data suggest that the equation of state…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

The Compressed 3D Lyman-Alpha Forest Bispectrum

Roger de Belsunce, James M. Sullivan, Patrick McDonald

Cosmological studies of the Lyman-Alpha (Lya) forest typically constrain parameters using two-point statistics. However, higher-order statistics, such as the three-point function (…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Modeling the Cosmological Lyman- Forest at the Field Level

Roger de Belsunce, Mikhail M. Ivanov, James M. Sullivan +2

The distribution of absorption lines in the spectra of distant quasars, called the Lyman- (Ly-) forest, is a unique probe of cosmology and the intergalactic medium at high re…

astro-ph.CO2025

High-redshift Millennium and Astrid galaxies in effective field theory at the field level

James M. Sullivan, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, Mikhail M. Ivanov +6

Effective Field Theory (EFT) modeling is expected to be a useful tool in the era of future higher-redshift galaxy surveys such as DESI-II and Spec-S5 due to its robust description…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

Can supermassive stars form in protogalaxies due to internal Lyman-Werner feedback?

James Sullivan, Zoltan Haiman, Mihir Kulkarni +1

Population III stars are possible precursors to early massive and supermassive black holes (BHs). The presence of soft UV Lyman Werner (LW) background radiation can suppress Popula…

astro-ph.CO2024

Emulating Recombination with Neural Networks using Universal Differential Equations

Ben Pennell, Zack Li, James M. Sullivan

With an aim towards modeling cosmologies beyond the CDM paradigm, we demonstrate the automatic construction of recombination history emulators while enforcing a prior of causal…