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Aaron Smith

Massachusetts Institute of Technology · US
Area of research
Astronomy and Astrophysics · Instrumentation
Research interest
Research interests include Physics, Astrophysics, Galaxy, Reionization, Redshift, and Star formation.
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1,153
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33
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Recent publications

Metallicity Gradients in Modern Cosmological Simulations. II. The Role of Bursty versus Smooth Feedback at High Redshift
The Astrophysical Journal 2026cited by 2position: middledoi
The THESAN project: Lyman-alpha emitters as probes of ionized bubble sizes
The Open Journal of Astrophysics 2026cited by 1position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan-zoom</scp> project: mystery N/O more – uncovering the origin of peculiar chemical abundances and a not-so-fundamental metallicity relation at 3 &amp;lt; <i>z</i> &amp;lt; 12
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2026cited by 1position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan-zoom</scp> project: The Hidden Neighbours of O  <scp>i</scp> Absorbers during Reionization
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2026cited by 1position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan-zoom</scp> project: burst, quench, repeat – unveiling the evolution of high-redshift galaxies along the star-forming main sequence
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025cited by 17position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan-zoom</scp> project: central starbursts and inside-out quenching govern galaxy sizes in the early Universe
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025cited by 10position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan-zoom</scp>  project: Population III star formation continues until the end of reionization
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025cited by 8position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan</scp> project: tracking the expansion and merger histories of ionized bubbles during the Epoch of Reionization
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025cited by 5position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan–zoom</scp> project: long-term imprints of external reionization on galaxy evolution
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025cited by 4position: middledoi
Overmassive black holes in the early Universe can be explained by gas-rich, dark matter-dominated galaxies
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025cited by 4position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan-zoom</scp> project: star formation efficiencies in high-redshift galaxies
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025cited by 4position: middledoi
The galaxy-IGM connection in THESAN: the physics connecting the IGM Lyman- <a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <a:mi>α</a:mi> </a:math> opacity and galaxy density in the reionization epoch
The Open Journal of Astrophysics 2025cited by 3position: middledoi
High-redshift AGN population in radiation-hydrodynamics simulations
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025cited by 3position: middledoi
RIGEL: Feedback-regulated cloud-scale star formation efficiency in a simulated dwarf galaxy merger
Astronomy and Astrophysics 2025cited by 1position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan</scp> project: galaxy sizes during the epoch of reionization
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2024cited by 23position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan</scp> project: public data release of radiation-hydrodynamic simulations matching reionization-era <i>JWST</i> observations
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2024cited by 21position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan</scp> project: connecting ionized bubble sizes to their local environments during the Epoch of Reionization
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2024cited by 21position: middledoi
The nature of diffuse ionized gas in star-forming galaxies
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2024cited by 19position: middledoi
Adapting <scp>arepo-rt</scp> for exascale computing: GPU acceleration and efficient communication
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2024cited by 14position: middledoi
The MillenniumTNG project: the galaxy population at <i>z</i> ≥ 8
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2023cited by 80position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan</scp> project: ionizing escape fractions of reionization-era galaxies
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2023cited by 75position: middledoi
<scp>thesan-hr</scp>: galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization in warm dark matter, fuzzy dark matter, and interacting dark matter
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2023cited by 26position: middledoi
<scp>thesan-hr</scp>: how does reionization impact early galaxy evolution?
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2023cited by 25position: middledoi
Simulating ionization feedback from young massive stars: impact of numerical resolution
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2023cited by 16position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan</scp> project: Lyman-α emitter luminosity function calibration
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2023cited by 15position: middledoi
Bridging the Gap between Cosmic Dawn and Reionization Favors Models Dominated by Faint Galaxies
The Astrophysical Journal 2023cited by 7position: middledoi
The<scp>thesan</scp>project: properties of the intergalactic medium and its connection to reionization-era galaxies
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2022cited by 118position: middledoi
The<scp>thesan</scp>project: Lyman-α emission and transmission during the Epoch of Reionization
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2022cited by 98position: firstdoi
H<i>α</i>emission in local galaxies: star formation, time variability, and the diffuse ionized gas
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2022cited by 79position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan</scp> project: predictions for multitracer line intensity mapping in the epoch of reionization
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2022cited by 67position: middledoi

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Frequent collaborators

Rahul Kannan · Massachusetts Institute of Technology32 papers (2021–2026)Mark Vogelsberger · Philipps University of Marburg28 papers (2021–2026) · 26 papers (2021–2026)Lars Hernquist · University of Southampton20 papers (2021–2026)Josh Borrow · Massachusetts Institute of Technology15 papers (2023–2026)Xuejian Shen · Massachusetts Institute of Technology14 papers (2022–2026)Oliver Zier · Massachusetts Institute of Technology13 papers (2024–2026)Laura C. Keating · California Institute of Technology10 papers (2025–2026)Volker Springel · Mineral Products Association10 papers (2021–2024)Sandro Tacchella · Columbia University10 papers (2022–2026)William McClymont · University of Surrey10 papers (2024–2026)Rüdiger Pakmor · Columbia University10 papers (2021–2024)Ewald Puchwein · Arizona State University10 papers (2025–2026)Hui Li · Massachusetts Institute of Technology4 papers (2022–2024)Jessica Y-C Yeh · Massachusetts Institute of Technology4 papers (2022–2024)Meredith Neyer · Massachusetts Institute of Technology4 papers (2024–2026)Paul Torrey · Massachusetts Institute of Technology3 papers (2022–2026) · 3 papers (2024–2026)Federico Marinacci · Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Bologna3 papers (2022–2025)Filip Popovic · York University2 papers (2025–2025)