The evolution of the intergalactic medium

M McQuinn - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016 - annualreviews.org
The bulk of cosmic matter resides in a dilute reservoir that fills the space between galaxies,
the intergalactic medium (IGM). The history of this reservoir is intimately tied to the cosmic …

21 cm cosmology in the 21st century

JR Pritchard, A Loeb - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Imaging the Universe during the first hundreds of millions of years remains one of the
exciting challenges facing modern cosmology. Observations of the redshifted 21 cm line of …

Model-independent evidence in favour of an end to reionization by z ≈ 6

ID McGreer, A Mesinger… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present new upper limits on the volume-weighted neutral hydrogen fraction,, at z∼ 5–6
derived from spectroscopy of bright quasars. The fraction of the Lyα and Lyβ forests that is …

HERA phase I limits on the cosmic 21 cm signal: constraints on astrophysics and cosmology during the epoch of reionization

Z Abdurashidova, JE Aguirre, P Alexander… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Recently, the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) has produced the
experiment's first upper limits on the power spectrum of 21 cm fluctuations at z∼ 8 and 10 …

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

J Park, A Mesinger, B Greig… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The properties of the first galaxies, expected to drive the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of
Reionization, are encoded in the 3D structure of the cosmic 21-cm signal. Parameter …

The birth of a galaxy–III. Propelling reionization with the faintest galaxies

JH Wise, VG Demchenko, MT Halicek… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Starlight from galaxies plays a pivotal role throughout the process of cosmic reionization. We
present the statistics of dwarf galaxy properties at z> 7 in haloes with masses up to 109 M⊙ …

Modeling cosmic reionization

NY Gnedin, P Madau - Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics, 2022 - Springer
The transformation of cold neutral intergalactic hydrogen into a highly ionized warm plasma
marks the end of the cosmic dark ages and the beginning of the age of galaxies. The details …

Lyα emitting galaxies as a probe of reionisation

M Dijkstra - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2014 - cambridge.org
The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) represents a milestone in the evolution of our Universe.
Star-forming galaxies that existed during the EoR likely emitted a significant fraction (~ 5 …

The birth of a galaxy: primordial metal enrichment and stellar populations

JH Wise, MJ Turk, ML Norman… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
By definition, Population III stars are metal-free, and their protostellar collapse is driven by
molecular hydrogen cooling in the gas phase, leading to large characteristic masses …

21CMMC: an MCMC analysis tool enabling astrophysical parameter studies of the cosmic 21 cm signal

B Greig, A Mesinger - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We introduce 21 cmmc: a parallelized, Monte Carlo Markov Chain analysis tool,
incorporating the epoch of reionization (EoR) seminumerical simulation 21 cmfast. 21 cmmc …