Hydrodynamical simulations of the galaxy population: enduring successes and outstanding challenges

RA Crain, F van de Voort - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
We review the progress in modeling the galaxy population in hydrodynamical simulations of
the ΛCDM cosmogony. State-of-the-art simulations now broadly reproduce the observed …

Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation

M Vogelsberger, F Marinacci, P Torrey… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Over recent decades, cosmological simulations of galaxy formation have been instrumental
in advancing our understanding of structure and galaxy formation in the Universe. These …

JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy of z = 7–9 star-forming galaxies with CEERS: new insight into bright Lyα emitters in ionized bubbles

M Tang, DP Stark, Z Chen, C Mason… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We describe new JWST/NIRSpec observations of galaxies at z≳ 7 taken from the CEERS
survey. Previous observations of this area have revealed associations of Lyα emitters at …

Introducing the thesan project: radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the epoch of reionization

R Kannan, E Garaldi, A Smith, R Pakmor… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We introduce the thesan project, a suite of large volume () radiation-magnetohydrodynamic
simulations that simultaneously model the large-scale statistical properties of the …

The low-redshift Lyman continuum survey. I. New, diverse local Lyman continuum emitters

SR Flury, AE Jaskot, HC Ferguson… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The origins of Lyman continuum (LyC) photons responsible for the reionization of the
universe are as of yet unknown and highly contested. Detecting LyC photons from the Epoch …

A survey of high-z galaxies: serra simulations

A Pallottini, A Ferrara, S Gallerani… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We introduce serra, a suite of zoom-in high-resolution (, at z= 7.7) cosmological simulations
including non-equilibrium chemistry and on-the-fly radiative transfer. The outputs are post …

The far-ultraviolet continuum slope as a Lyman Continuum escape estimator at high redshift

J Chisholm, A Saldana-Lopez, S Flury… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Most of the hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM) was rapidly ionized at high redshifts.
While observations have established that reionization occurred, observational constraints on …

Most of the photons that reionized the Universe came from dwarf galaxies

H Atek, I Labbé, LJ Furtak, I Chemerynska, S Fujimoto… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The identification of sources driving cosmic reionization, a major phase transition from
neutral hydrogen to ionized plasma around 600–800 Myr after the Big Bang,–, has been a …

Early galaxy formation and its large-scale effects

P Dayal, A Ferrara - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Galaxy formation is at the heart of our understanding of cosmic evolution. Although there is a
consensus that galaxies emerged from the expanding matter background by gravitational …

LyC escape from sphinx galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization

J Rosdahl, J Blaizot, H Katz, T Kimm… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We measure escape fractions, f esc, of ionizing radiation from galaxies in the sphinx suite of
cosmological radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of reionization, resolving haloes with …