most citedThe Lumina Project: The Demographics of Active Galactic Nuclei from Quasars to Little Red Dots at

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astro-ph.CO2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2026

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…

astro-ph.CO2026

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…