Simulating Cosmic Reionization

Understand

The Cosmic Dark Ages and the Epoch of Reionization constitute a crucial missing link in our understanding of the evolution of the intergalactic medium and the formation and evolution of galaxies.

• Due to the complex nature of this global process it is best studied through large-scale numerical simulations.
• This presents considerable computational challenges.
• The dominant contributors of ionizing radiation were dwarf galaxies.