Yesterday, PhD candidate Kirk Barrow submitted his first (!) paper (arXiv), titled "First Light: Exploring the Spectra of High-Redshift Galaxies in the Renaissance Simulations". Correlations between physical and observational properties of the first galaxies are imperative to determine before JWST launches in October 2018. We have examined two of the most massive … Continue Reading ››

A couple of weeks ago, we submitted the method paper (arXiv) on Grackle, a chemistry and cooling library for astrophysical simulations and calculations, for publication.  The paper is led by Britton Smith (now at UC-San Diego), and the code and documentary can be found here.