The project

The SPHINX suite of cosmological radiation-hydrodynamical simulations is designed to simultaneously capture large-scale reionization and the escape of ionizing radiation from thousands of resolved galaxies during the first billion years of the Universe. Our volumes resolve haloes down to the atomic cooling limit and model the inter-stellar medium of galaxies with better than ≈ 10 parsec resolution. The project has numerous goals in improving our understanding of reionization and making predictions for future observations.

Core members of the team are:

  • Joakim Rosdahl (PI),  Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon
  • Jérémy Blaizot,  CRAL
  • Thibault Garel,  CRAL
  • Martin Haehnelt,  Cambridge University
  • Harley Katz,  Oxford University
  • Taysun Kimm,  Yonsei University
  • Léo Michel-Dansac,  CRAL
  • Pierre Ocvirk,  Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg
  • Romain Teyssier,  University of Zürich

News

Animations

Full volume with single stars (download)
Full rotating volume for 10 cMpc wide volume with single stars. Clockwise from top left: hydrogen number density, temperature, ionising radiation flux, and  ionized fraction  (all density-weighted).


Full volume with binary stars (download)
Full rotating volume for 10 cMpc wide volume with binary stars. Clockwise from top left: hydrogen number density, temperature, ionising radiation flux, and  ionized fraction  (all density-weighted).

Zoom with binary stars (download)
The animation shows wide (upper row) and close (lower row) zooms around the most massive halo in the run with binary stars.

Another zoom  (download)
The animation shows wide and close zooms around another massive halo in the run with binary stars.

Another zoom  (download)
The animation shows wide and close zooms around another massive halo in the run with binary stars.

Temperature evolution  
Movie without legend of temperature evolution of full 5 Mpc volume with binaries.

Photon flux  
Movie without legend of ionizing photon flux in full 5 Mpc volume with binaries.

Thanks to Pawel Biernacki for developing movie routines for the RAMSES code.

Images

Space for images and plots.