Publications

This page maintains a current list of publications using various aspects of COLT.

Original Methods Paper:

  • Smith, A., Safranek-Shrader, C., Bromm, V., Milosavljević, M., 2015, MNRAS, 449, 4336: ‘The Lyman α signature of the first galaxies’ (arXiv:1409.4480)

Science Papers:

  • McClymont, W., Tacchella, S., Smith, A., Kannan, R., Maiolino, R., Belfiore, F., Hernquist, L., Li, H., Vogelsberger, M., 2024, MNRAS, submitted: ‘The nature of diffuse ionised gas in star-forming galaxies’ (arXiv:2403.03243)

  • Garaldi, E., Kannan, R., Smith, A., Borrow, J., Vogelsberger, M., Pakmor, R., Springel, V., Hernquist, L., Galárraga-Espinosa, D., Yeh, J. Y.-C., Shen, X., Xu, C., Neyer, M., Spina, B., Almualla, M., Zhao, Y., 2024, MNRAS, in press: ‘The THESAN project: public data release of radiation-hydrodynamic simulations matching reionization-era JWST observations’ (arXiv:2309.06475)

  • Xu, C., Smith, A., Borrow, J., Garaldi, E., Kannan, R., Vogelsberger, M., Pakmor, R., Springel, V., Hernquist, L., 2023, MNRAS, 521, 4356: ‘The THESAN project: Lyman-α emitter luminosity function calibration’ (arXiv:2210.16275)

  • Yeh, J. Y.-C., Smith, A., Kannan, R., Garaldi, E., Vogelsberger, M., Borrow, J., Pakmor, R., Springel, V., Hernquist, L., 2023, MNRAS, 520, 2757: ‘The THESAN project: ionizing escape fractions of reionization-era galaxies’ (arXiv:2205.02238)

  • Jahn, E. D., Sales, L. V., Marinacci, F., Vogelsberger, M., Torrey, P., Qi, J., Smith, A., Li, H., Kannan, R., Burger, J. D., Zavala, J., 2023, MNRAS, 520, 461: ‘Real and counterfeit cores: how feedback expands haloes and disrupts tracers of inner gravitational potential in dwarf galaxies’ (arXiv:2110.00142)

  • Smith, A., Kannan, R., Tacchella, S., Vogelsberger, M., Hernquist, L., Marinacci, F., Sales, L.V., Torrey, P., Li, H., Yeh, J. Y.-C., Qi, J., 2022, MNRAS, 517, 1: ‘The physics of Lyman-α escape from disc-like galaxies’ (arXiv:2111.13721)

  • Tacchella, S., Smith, A., Kannan, R., Marinacci, F., Hernquist, L., Vogelsberger, M., Torrey, P., Sales, L., Li, H., 2022, MNRAS, 513, 2904: ‘Hα emission in local galaxies: star formation, time variability, and the diffuse ionized gas’ (arXiv:2112.00027)

  • Garaldi, E., Kannan, R., Smith, A., Springel, V., Pakmor, R., Vogelsberger, M., Hernquist, L., 2022, MNRAS, 512, 4909: ‘The THESAN project: properties of the intergalactic medium and its connection to reionization-era galaxies’ (arXiv:2110.01628)

  • Smith, A., Kannan, R., Garaldi, E., Vogelsberger, M., Pakmor, R., Springel, V., Hernquist, L., 2022, MNRAS, 512, 3243: ‘The THESAN project: Lyman-α emission and transmission during the Epoch of Reionization’ (arXiv:2110.02966)

  • Kimock, B., Narayanan, D., Smith, A., Ma, X., Feldmann, R., Anglés-Alcázar, D., Bromm, V., Davé, R., Geach, J., Hopkins, P., Kereš, D., 2021, ApJ, 909, 119: ‘The Origin and Evolution of Lyman-α Blobs in Cosmological Galaxy Formation Simulations’ (arXiv:2004.08397)

  • Lao, B.-X., Smith, A., 2020, MNRAS, 497, 3925: ‘Resonant-line radiative transfer within power-law density profiles’ (arXiv:2005.09692)

  • Yang, Y.-L., Evans, N. J., Smith, A., Lee, J.-E., Tobin, J. J., Terebey, S., Calcutt, H., Jørgensen, J. K., Green, J. D., Bourke, T. L., 2020, ApJ, 891, 61: ‘Constraining the Infalling Envelope Models of Embedded Protostars: BHR 71 and Its Hot Corino’ (arXiv:2002.01478)

  • Smith, A., Ma, X., Bromm, V., Finkelstein, S. L., Hopkins, P. F., Faucher-Giguère, C.-A., Kereš, D., 2019, MNRAS, 484, 39: ‘The physics of Lyman α escape from high-redshift galaxies’ (arXiv:1810.08185)

  • Smith, A., Tsang, B. T.-H., Bromm, V., Milosavljević, M., 2018, MNRAS, 479, 2065: ‘Discrete diffusion Lyman α radiative transfer’ (arXiv:1709.10187)

  • Smith, A., Becerra, F., Bromm, V., Hernquist, L., 2017, MNRAS, 472, 205: ‘Radiative effects during the assembly of direct collapse black holes’ (arXiv:1706.02751)

  • Smith, A., Bromm, V., Loeb, A., 2017, MNRAS, 464, 2963: ‘Lyman α radiation hydrodynamics of galactic winds before cosmic reionization’ (arXiv:1607.07166)

  • Smith, A., Bromm, V., Loeb, A., 2016, MNRAS, 460, 3143: ‘Evidence for a direct collapse black hole in the Lyman α source CR7’ (arXiv:1602.07639)