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20142023
most citedInferring the astrophysics of reionization and cosmic dawn from galaxy luminosity functions and the 21-cm signal

260 citations · 1.3k across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

physics.geo-ph2023★ 52 cited

Contributions to the geomagnetic secular variation from a reanalysis of core surface dynamics

Olivier Barrois, Nicolas Gillet, Julien Aubert

We invert for motions at the surface of Earth's core under spatial and temporal constraints that depart from the mathematical smoothings usually employed to ensure spectral converg…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 3 cited

Reionisation time fields reconstruction from 21 cm signal maps

Julien Hiegel, Emilie Thélie, Dominique Aubert +6

During the Epoch of reionisation, the intergalactic medium is reionised by the UV radiation from the first generation of stars and galaxies. One tracer of the process is the 21 cm…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 5 cited

Topology of Reionisation times: concepts, measurements and comparisons to gaussian random field predictions

Emilie Thélie, Dominique Aubert, Nicolas Gillet +2

In the next decade, radio telescopes like the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will explore the Universe at high redshift, and particularly during the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR). The…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 23 cited

DUSTiER (DUST in the Epoch of Reionization): dusty galaxies in cosmological radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of the Epoch of Reionization with RAMSES-CUDATON

Joseph S. W. Lewis, Pierre Ocvirk, Yohan Dubois +4

In recent years, interstellar dust has become a crucial topic in the study of the high and very high redshift Universe. Evidence points to the existence of high dust masses in mass…

physics.geo-ph2022★ 58 cited

Rapid Variations of Earth's Core Magnetic Field

V. Lesur, N. Gillet, M. D. Hammer +1

Evidence of fast variations in the Earth's core field are seen both in magnetic observatory and satellite records. We present here how they have been identified at the Earth's surf…

astro-ph.CO2021

A first look at the topology of reionization redshifts in models of the Epoch of the Reionization

Emilie Thélie, Dominique Aubert, Nicolas Gillet +1

During the EoR, the first stars and galaxies appear while creating ionized bubbles that will eventually percolate near z=6. These ionized bubbles and percolation process are nowada…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 45 cited

Machine learning astrophysics from 21 cm lightcones: impact of network architectures and signal contamination

David Prelogović, Andrei Mesinger, Steven Murray +2

Imaging the cosmic 21 cm signal will map out the first billion years of our Universe. The resulting 3D lightcone (LC) will encode the properties of the unseen first galaxies and ph…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 46 cited

Lyman-alpha opacities at z=4-6 require low mass, radiatively-suppressed galaxies to drive cosmic reionization

Pierre Ocvirk, Joseph S. W. Lewis, Nicolas Gillet +4

The high redshift Lyman-alpha forest, in particular the Gunn-Peterson trough, is the most unambiguous signature of the neutral to ionized transition of the intergalactic medium (IG…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 39 cited

Constraints on warm dark matter from UV luminosity functions of high-z galaxies with Bayesian model comparison

Anton Rudakovskyi, Andrei Mesinger, Denys Savchenko +1

The number density of small dark matter (DM) halos hosting faint high-redshift galaxies is sensitive to the DM free-streaming properties. However, constraining these DM properties…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 3 cited

21cm signal predictions at Cosmic Dawn and Reionization with coupled radiative-hydrodynamics

Nicolas J. F. Gillet, Dominique Aubert, Florent G. Mertens +1

The process of heating and reionization of the Universe at high redshift links small scale structures/galaxy formation and large scale inter-galactic medium properties. Even if the…

physics.geo-ph2021★ 52 cited

The interplay of fast waves and slow convection in geodynamo simulations nearing Earth's core conditions

Julien Aubert, Nicolas Gillet

Ground observatory and satellite-based determinations of temporal variations in the geomagnetic field probe a decadal to annual time scale range where Earth's core slow, inertiales…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 39 cited

Minimum size of 21-cm simulations

Harman Deep Kaur, Nicolas Gillet, Andrei Mesinger

Cosmic 21cm interferometry is set to revolutionize our understanding of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) and the Cosmic Dawn (CD). However, the signal has structure on a huge range…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 32 cited

Properties of reionization-era galaxies from JWST luminosity functions and 21-cm interferometry

Jaehong Park, Nicolas Gillet, Andrei Mesinger +1

Next generation observatories will enable us to study the first billion years of our Universe in unprecedented detail. Foremost among these are 21-cm interferometry with the HERA a…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 17 cited

Combining high-z galaxy luminosity functions with Bayesian evidence

Nicolas J. F. Gillet, Andrei Mesinger, Jaehong Park

Galaxy formation during the first billion years of our Universe remains a challenging problem at the forefront of astrophysical cosmology. Although these galaxies are li…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 38 cited

A deep learning model to emulate simulations of cosmic reionization

Jonathan Chardin, Grégoire Uhlrich, Dominique Aubert +4

We present a deep learning model trained to emulate the radiative transfer during the epoch of cosmological reionization. CRADLE (Cosmological Reionization And Deep LEarning) is an…

physics.geo-ph2019★ 5 cited

Spatial And Temporal Changes Of The Geomagnetic Field: Insights From Forward And Inverse Core Field Models

Nicolas Gillet

Observational constraints on geomagnetic field changes from interannual to millenial periods are reviewed, and the current resolution of field models (covering archeological to sat…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 260 cited

Inferring the astrophysics of reionization and cosmic dawn from galaxy luminosity functions and the 21-cm signal

Jaehong Park, Andrei Mesinger, Bradley Greig +1

The properties of the first galaxies, expected to drive the Cosmic Dawn (CD) and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), are encoded in the 3D structure of the cosmic 21-cm signal. Parame…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 58 cited

Suppression of Star Formation in Low-Mass Galaxies Caused by the Reionization of their Local Neighborhood

Taha Dawoodbhoy, Paul R. Shapiro, Pierre Ocvirk +10

Photoheating associated with reionization suppressed star formation in low-mass galaxies. Reionization was inhomogeneous, however, affecting different regions at different times. T…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 108 cited

Deep learning from 21-cm tomography of the Cosmic Dawn and Reionization

Nicolas Gillet, Andrei Mesinger, Bradley Greig +2

The 21-cm power spectrum (PS) has been shown to be a powerful discriminant of reionization and cosmic dawn astrophysical parameters. However, the 21-cm tomographic signal is highly…

physics.geo-ph2016★ 126 cited

Planetary gyre, time-dependent eddies, torsional waves, and equatorial jets at the Earth's core surface

N Gillet, D Jault, C. C. Finlay

We report a calculation of time-dependent quasi-geostrophic core flows for 1940-2010. Inverting recursively for an ensemble of solutions, we evaluate the main source of uncertainti…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 220 cited

Cosmic Dawn (CoDa): the First Radiation-Hydrodynamics Simulation of Reionization and Galaxy Formation in the Local Universe

Pierre Ocvirk, Nicolas Gillet, Paul R. Shapiro +12

Cosmic reionization by starlight from early galaxies affected their evolution, thereby impacting reionization, itself. Star formation suppression, for example, may explain the obse…

physics.geo-ph2015★ 31 cited

Stochastic modelling of regional archaeomagnetic series

G. Hellio, N. Gillet, C. Bouligand +1

SUMMARY We report a new method to infer continuous time series of the declination, inclination and intensity of the magnetic field from archeomagnetic data. Adopting a Bayesian per…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 54 cited

Vast planes of satellites in a high resolution simulation of the Local Group: comparison to Andromeda

N. Gillet, P. Ocvirk, D. Aubert +5

We search for vast planes of satellites (VPoS) in a high resolution simulation of the Local Group performed by the CLUES project, which improves significantly the resolution of for…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 25 cited

The reionization of galactic satellite populations

P. Ocvirk, N. Gillet, D. Aubert +6

We use high resolution simulations of the formation of the local group post-processed by a radiative transfer code for UV photons, to investigate the reionization of the satellite…