SAZERAC 2020 | 4A | Aaron Smith

Pathways to Self-Consistent Modeling of High-redshift Lyman-alpha Emitters Aaron Smith MIT Lyman-alpha emission is a powerful probe of the interstellar medium and circumgalactic medium of high-redshift galaxies. Recent theoretical efforts include sophisticated (semi-)analytic models, numerical experiments, and radiative transfer studies from cosmological simulations. I will briefly discuss some of the unique obstacles to predicting observables from Lyman-alpha emitters during the Epoch of Reionization, such as resolution in large-volume simulations and representative statistics from zoom-in simulations. The Modeling Reionization with Arepo-RT (MoRiA) project offers a pathway to overcoming some of these challenges by supplying zoom-in regions with a self-consistent mezo-scale reionization environment directly from their parent simulation. While this project is still in the early production stages, I will share a few proof-of-concept results in anticipation of connecting interstellar and intergalactic physics with fully-coupled radiation hydrodynamics within the Illustris-TNG and SMUGGLE frameworks.