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On the origin of low escape fractions in LBGs at z ~ 3

  • Yoo, Taehwa
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.43 no.2
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    • pp.55.1-55.1
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    • 2018
  • Theoretical models of reionization require that approximately 10% of the Lyman Continumm (LyC) photons escape from their host dark matter haloes and re-ionize neutral hydrogen in the Universe. However, observations of Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) at z~3 report much lower escape fractions of $f_{esc}{\sim}1%$. In an attempt to understand the discrepancy, we perform radiation-hydrodynamics simulations of isolated disk galaxies using RAMSES-RT with high resolution (maximum ~ 9 pc). We find that $f_{esc}$ is ~6% on average for the reference run ($Z=0.1Z{\odot}$), whereas the fraction decreases to ~1% in the case of metal-rich disk ($Z=1Z{\odot}$). This happens because dense metal-poor gas clumps are disrupted early due to strong Lya pressure and supernova explosions, while star particles are trapped for a longer period of time in the metal-rich environments. We also find that $f_{esc}$ is still significant (~4%) even when the amount of metal-poor gas is increased by a factor of 5. Our preliminary results suggest that the low escape fractions in LBGs may be better explained by (locally) metal-enriched gas near young stars than high gas fractions in galaxies.

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A Hydrodynamical Simulation of the Off-Axis Cluster Merger Abell 115

  • Lee, Wonki;Kim, Mincheol;Jee, Myungkook James
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.43 no.2
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    • pp.38.1-38.1
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    • 2018
  • A merging galaxy cluster is a useful laboratory to study many interesting astrophysical processes such as intracluster medium heating, particle acceleration, and possibly dark matter self-interaction. However, without understanding the merger scenario of the system, interpretation of the observational data is severely limited. In this work, we focus on the off-axis binary cluster merger Abell 115, which possesses many remarkable features. The cluster has two cool cores in X-ray with disturbed morphologies and a single giant radio relic just north of the northern X-ray peak. In addition, there is a large discrepancy (almost a factor of 10) in mass estimate between weak lensing and dynamical analyses. To constrain the merger scenario, we perform a hydrodynamical simulation with the adaptive mesh refinement code RAMSES. We use the multi-wavelength observational data including X-ray, weak-lensing, radio, and optical spectroscopy to constrain the merger scenario. We present detailed comparisons between the simulation results and these multi-wavelength observations.

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A Deep Convolutional Neural Network approach to Large Scale Structure

  • Sabiu, Cristiano G.
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.44 no.2
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    • pp.53.3-53.3
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    • 2019
  • Recent work by Ravanbakhsh et al. (2017), Mathuriya et al. (2018) showed that convolutional neural networks (CNN) can be trained to predict cosmological parameters from the visual shape of the large scale structure, i.e. the filaments, clusters and voids of the cosmic density field. These preliminary works used the dark matter density field at redshift zero. We build upon these works by considering realistic mock galaxy catalogues that mimic true observations. We construct light-cones that span the redshift range appropriate for current and near future cosmological surveys such as LSST, EUCLID, WFIRST etc. In summary, we propose a novel multi-image input CNN to track the evolution in the morphology of large scale structures over cosmic time to constrain cosmology and the expansion history of the Universe.

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ΛLT(Lambda-Lemaître-Tolman) solution for the Hubble Tension

  • Yang, Seong-Yeon
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.44 no.2
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    • pp.40.2-40.2
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    • 2019
  • 허블 텐션이란 허블우주망원경으로 관측한 허블상수 값과 플랑크 위성으로 측정한 허블상수 값이 일치하지 않는 문제를 일컬으며 현재 우주론에서 주목 받는 이슈 중 하나이다. 밀도가 작은 지역에선 약한 중력으로 공간의 팽창이 빠르고, 반대로 밀도가 큰 지역에서는 팽창이 느리다. 만약, 우리 근처에서 상대적으로 낮은 밀도 때문에 팽창 속도의 차이가 생긴다면 허블 텐션의 원인을 쉽게 설명할 수 있다. 이 문제를 구체적으로 다루기 위해, 우리는 우주 상수를 고려한 아인슈타인 중력의 구형 우주론 풀이인 Lambda-Lemaître-Tolman (ΛLT) 모형을 사용하였다. 우리로부터 먼 현상은 기존의 ΛCDM(Λ cold dark matter) 모형으로, 가까운 현상은 국소적인 LT 모형으로 기술함으로써 허블 텐션 문제를 해결하고자 하였다. 또한, 마코프 체인 몬테 칼로 (MCMC) 방법을 적용하여 천문 관측 결과를 잘 맞추는 ΛLT 모형의 변수들을 탐색하였다.

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Bar Formation and Evolution in Disk Galaxies with Classical Bulges

  • Seo, Woo-Young;Kim, Woong-Tae
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.44 no.2
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    • pp.37.2-37.2
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    • 2019
  • To study the effects of central mass concentration on the formation and evolution of galactic bars, we run fully self-consistent simulations of Milky Way-sized, isolated galaxies with initial classical bulges. We let the mass of a classical bulge mass less than 20% of the total disk mass, and vary the central concentration of a dark matter halo. We find that both classical bulge and halo concentration delay the bar formation and weaken the bar strength. The presence of a bulge increases the initial rotational velocity near the center and hence the bar pattern speed. Bars in galaxies with a more concentrated halo slowdown relatively rapidly as they lose their angular momentum through interaction with the halo. In some of our models, bars do not experience slowdown at the expense of the decrease in their moment of inertia as the bar evolves, with the resulting pattern speed similar to that of the bar in the Milky Way.

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Weak Lensing Mass Map Reconstruction of Merging Clusters with Convolutional Neural Network

  • Park, Sangnam;Jee, James M.;Hong, Sungwook E.;Bak, Dongsu
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.44 no.2
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    • pp.75.1-75.1
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    • 2019
  • We introduce a novel method for reconstructing the projected dark matter mass maps of merging galaxy clusters by applying the convolutional neural network (CNN) to their weak lensing maps. We generate synthesized grayscale images from given weak lensing maps that preserve their averaged galaxy ellipticity. We then apply them to multi-layered CNN with architectures of alternating convolution and trans-convolution filters to predict the mass maps. We train our architecture with 1,000 Subaru/Suprime-Cam mock weak lensing maps, and our method have better mass map prediction than the Kaiser-Squires method with the following three aspects: (1) better pixel-to-pixel correlation, (2) more accurate finding of density peak position, and (3) free from mass-sheet degeneracy. We also apply our method to the HST weak lensing map of the El Gordo cluster and compare our result to the previous studies.

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Phas-space Analysis of Halos around Large-scale Filamentary Structures

  • Jhee, Hannah;Song, Hyunmi;Smith, Rory;Shin, Jihye;Park, Inkyu
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.64.3-65
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    • 2020
  • It has been studied that galaxies evolve following a typical trajectory on the phase space under the influence of deep gravitational potential of galaxy clusters. Similarly, the large-scale filaments could also affect the evolution of galaxies before falling into the clusters. In this study, using a dark matter-only cosmological simulation, N-Cluster Run, we explore the evolution of galaxies on the phase space drien by large-scale filaments. We find that galaxies around the filaments form a common trajectory on the phase space as well as cluster galaxies do. We also examine how these trajectories change depending on various physical parameters such as galaxy mass, initial distance of galaxies from large-scale filaments, and cluster mass.

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A Weak-lensing Study of the Double Radio Relic Galaxy Cluster Abell 1240

  • Cho, Hyejeon;Jee, Myungkook James;Finner, Kyle
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.46 no.1
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    • pp.34.1-34.1
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    • 2021
  • Abell 1240 is a merging galaxy cluster hosting prominent, symmetric double radio relics. To constrain its merging history, we provide the first weak-lensing analysis of the dark matter distribution of the Abell 1240 field with Subaru/Suprime-Cam observations after robustly addressing instrumental systematics. We also investigate the cluster galaxy distributions, combining our new MMT/Hectospec observations and the spectroscopic redshifts from the literature. Both weak-lensing mass reconstruction and galaxy distribution show that Abell 1240 consists of two subclusters stretched north to south between the double radio relics. We quantify the significance of the substructures and present their mass estimates. Finally, we discuss a merging stage of Abell 1240 with the current weak-lensing results and the radio relic priors.

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Study on Talbot Pattern for Grating Interferometer (격자간섭계를 위한 탈봇 패턴 연구)

  • Kim, Youngju;Oh, Ohsung;Kim, Jongyul;Lee, Seung Wook
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.38 no.1
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    • pp.39-49
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    • 2015
  • One of properties which X-ray and Neutron can be applied nondestructive test is penetration into the object with interaction leads to decrease in intensity. X-ray interaction with the matter caused by electrons, Neutron caused by atoms. They share applications in nondestructive test area because of their similarities of interaction mechanism. Grating interferometer is the one of applications produces phase contrast image and dark field image. It is defined by Talbot interferometer and Talbot-Lau interferometer according to Talbot effect and Talbot-Lau effect respectively. Talbot interferometer works with coherence beam like X-ray, and Talbot-Lau has an effect with incoherence beam like Neutron. It is important to expect the interference in grating interferometer compared normal nondestructive system. In this paper, simulation works are conducted according to Talbot and Talbot-Lau interferometer in case of X-ray and Neutron. Variation of interference intensity with X-ray and Neutron based on wave theory is constructed and calculate elements consist the system. Additionally, Talbot and Talbot-Lau interferometer is simulated in different kinds of conditions.

MASSIVE STRUCTURES OF GALAXIES AT HIGH REDSHIFTS IN THE GREAT OBSERVATORIES ORIGINS DEEP SURVEY FIELDS

  • Kang, Eugene;Im, Myungshin
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.48 no.1
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    • pp.21-55
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    • 2015
  • If the Universe is dominated by cold dark matter and dark energy as in the currently popular ${\Lambda}CDM$ cosmology, it is expected that large scale structures form gradually, with galaxy clusters of mass $M{\geq}10^{14}M_{\odot}$ appearing at around 6 Gyrs after the Big Bang (z ~ 1). Here, we report the discovery of 59 massive structures of galaxies with masses greater than a few times $10^{13}M_{\odot}$ at redshifts between z = 0.6 and 4.5 in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey fields. The massive structures are identified by running top-hat filters on the two dimensional spatial distribution of magnitude-limited samples of galaxies using a combination of spectroscopic and photometric redshifts. We analyze the Millennium simulation data in a similar way to the analysis of the observational data in order to test the ${\Lambda}CDM$ cosmology. We find that there are too many massive structures (M > $7{\times}10^{13}M_{\odot}$) observed at z > 2 in comparison with the simulation predictions by a factor of a few, giving a probability of < 1/2500 of the observed data being consistent with the simulation. Our result suggests that massive structures have emerged early, but the reason for the discrepancy with the simulation is unclear. It could be due to the limitation of the simulation such as the lack of key, unrecognized ingredients (strong non-Gaussianity or other baryonic physics), or simply a difficulty in the halo mass estimation from observation, or a fundamental problem of the ${\Lambda}CDM$ cosmology. On the other hand, the over-abundance of massive structures at high redshifts does not favor heavy neutrino mass of ~ 0.3 eV or larger, as heavy neutrinos make the discrepancy between the observation and the simulation more pronounced by a factor of 3 or more.