Publications

Peer-reviewed papers, preprints, and conference proceedings from the Lumina cosmological simulation project.

Reference paper

Introducing the Lumina project: large-volume radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of the epochs of hydrogen and helium reionization

Oliver Zier, Aaron Smith, Xuejian Shen, Rongrong Liu, Rahul Kannan

arXiv e-prints (2026)

When using Lumina simulation data in your work, please cite this paper.

4 papers

Preprint
DOI arXiv ADS
Introducing the Lumina project: large-volume radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of the epochs of hydrogen and helium reionization
Oliver Zier, Aaron Smith, Xuejian Shen, Rongrong Liu, Rahul Kannan
arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2605.15310
Preprint
DOI arXiv ADS
The Lumina Project: Intergalactic Clumping and Recombination Sinks
Ali Sadain, Aaron Smith, Oliver Zier, Hyunbae Park, Teodora-Elena Bulichi
arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2606.18382
Preprint
DOI arXiv ADS
The Lumina Project: CMB Optical Depth Fluctuations from Patchy Reionization
Aaron Smith, Oliver Zier, Rahul Kannan, Xuejian Shen, Rongrong Liu
arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2605.18939
Preprint
DOI arXiv ADS
The Lumina Project: The Demographics of Active Galactic Nuclei from Quasars to Little Red Dots at z ≥ 3
Xuejian Shen, Oliver Zier, Aaron Smith, Rongrong Liu, Rahul Kannan
arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2605.24112

1 paper

Published
DOI arXiv ADS
High-redshift AGN population in radiation-hydrodynamics simulations
Teodora-Elena Bulichi, Oliver Zier, Aaron Smith, Mark Vogelsberger, Anna-Christina Eilers
MNRAS, 544, 355-371

1 paper

Published
DOI arXiv ADS
Adapting AREPO-RT for exascale computing: GPU acceleration and efficient communication
Oliver Zier, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith, Mark Vogelsberger, Erkin Verbeek
MNRAS, 533, 268-286