Also last week, we submitted a paper, led by Pengfei Chen (now in the finance sector), on the stochastic nature of reionization during its initial phases. Here we used the galactic properties from the Renaissance Simulations as the source model in a reionization simulation. We find that before a redshift of 10 (age of … Continue Reading ››

Last week, our paper (arXiv), led by KwangHo Park, on the behavior of accretion flows onto intermediate mass black holes was submitted to the Astrophysical Journal. Here we used 3D radiation hydrodynamics simulations to study how the surrounding environment is affected by radiation feedback that originates from the gas around the black hole. … Continue Reading ››