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Gas around galaxy haloes: Methodology comparisons using hydrodynamical simulations of the intergalactic medium (2014)
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Meiksin, A., Bolton, J. S., & Tittley, E. R. (2014). Gas around galaxy haloes: Methodology comparisons using hydrodynamical simulations of the intergalactic medium. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445(3), 2462-2475. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1938

© 2014 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. We perform cosmological simulations of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at redshift z ~ 3 using the numerical gravity-hydrodynamics codes GADGET-3 and... Read More about Gas around galaxy haloes: Methodology comparisons using hydrodynamical simulations of the intergalactic medium.

Heating and ionization of the primordial intergalactic medium by high mass x-ray binaries (2014)
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Knevitt, G., Wynn, G., Power, C., & Bolton, J. S. (2014). Heating and ionization of the primordial intergalactic medium by high mass x-ray binaries. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1803

We investigate the influence of high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) on their high-redshift environments. Using a one-dimensional radiative transfer code, we predict the ionization and temperature profiles surrounding a coeval stellar population, compose... Read More about Heating and ionization of the primordial intergalactic medium by high mass x-ray binaries.

Suite of hydrodynamical simulations for the Lyman-alpha forest with massive neutrinos (2014)
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Rossi, G., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Borde, A., Viel, M., Yeche, C., Bolton, J. S., …Le Goff, J. (2014). Suite of hydrodynamical simulations for the Lyman-alpha forest with massive neutrinos. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 567, Article A79. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201423507

The signature left in quasar spectra by neutral hydrogen in the Universe allows constraining the sum of the neutrino masses with a better sensitivity than laboratory experiments and may shed new light on the neutrino mass hierarchy and the absolute m... Read More about Suite of hydrodynamical simulations for the Lyman-alpha forest with massive neutrinos.

New approach for precise computation of Lyman-alpha forest power spectrum with hydrodynamical simulations (2014)
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Borde, A., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Rossi, G., Viel, M., Bolton, J. S., Yeche, C., …Le Goff, J. (2014). New approach for precise computation of Lyman-alpha forest power spectrum with hydrodynamical simulations. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2014(July), Article 005. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2014/07/005

Current experiments are providing measurements of the flux power spectrum from the Lyman-α forests observed in quasar spectra with unprecedented accuracy. Their interpretation in terms of cosmological constraints requires specific simulations of at l... Read More about New approach for precise computation of Lyman-alpha forest power spectrum with hydrodynamical simulations.

The thermal history of the intergalactic medium down to redshift z=1.5: a new curvature measurement (2014)
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Boera, E., Murphy, M. T., Becker, G. D., & Bolton, J. S. (2014). The thermal history of the intergalactic medium down to redshift z=1.5: a new curvature measurement. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 441(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu660

According to the photoheating model of the intergalactic medium (IGM), He ii reionization is expected to affect its thermal evolution. Evidence for additional energy injection into the IGM has been found at 3 ≲ z ≲ 4, though the evidence for the subs... Read More about The thermal history of the intergalactic medium down to redshift z=1.5: a new curvature measurement.

A consistent determination of the temperature of the intergalactic medium at redshift z=2.4 (2014)
Journal Article
Bolton, J. S., Becker, G. D., Haehnelt, M. G., & Viel, M. (2014). A consistent determination of the temperature of the intergalactic medium at redshift z=2.4. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 438, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2374

We present new measurements of the thermal state of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at z∼2.4 derived from absorption line profiles in the Lyα forest. We use a large set of high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations to calibrate the relationship betwee... Read More about A consistent determination of the temperature of the intergalactic medium at redshift z=2.4.