# Biography

I am a third year PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Eiichiro Komatsu’s group. Within the scope of my PhD I try to understand how we can interpret Lyman-$\alpha$ observations to understand the evolution of our Universe on both small and large spatial scales.

### Interests

• Intensity Mapping
• Single-degenerate Type 1a Supernovae

### Education

• PhD Candidate in Physical Cosmology, 2021

Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

• MSc in Physics, 2017

University of Goettingen

• BSc in Physics, 2015

University of Goettingen

# Projects

#### Simulating Lyman-alpha Emitters

Below plots show first results of our new radiative transfer code for meshless structures applied to individual halos in the IllustrisTNG simulations. Lyman-alpha emitter after radiative transfer. Surface brightness in erg/s/cm$^2$/arcsec$^2$. Lyman-alpha emitter after radiative transfer. Artificially lowered neutral hydrogen density by a factor of $10$, revealing the radiative transfer smoothing out the emission from the star forming regions. Surface brightness in erg/s/cm$^2$/arcsec$^2$. The neutral hydrogen column density responsible for scattering out the injected photons in star forming regions.

#### IGM Interaction of Lyman-alpha Emitters Spectra

Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) show a rich variety of spectral shapes due to the emission line’s resonant nature and typically high optical depths. While there is a large body of literature exploring how small-scale density and velocity distributions can explain this variety of features in spectra, the intergalactic medium (IGM) has often been neglecting as a contributing factor for such features. Above sketch helps visualizing how the IGM density and velocity structure along a line-of-sight give rise to an attenuation profile possibly shaping the arising spectrum.

#### Radiative Transfer on Voronoi Meshes

An increasing amount of astrophysical and cosmological simulations are carried out on a moving unstructed mesh defined by the Voronoi tessellation. Photons are spawned in a Monte Carlo fashion from emitting gas cells. At each scattering the contribution reaching the observer along specified lines of sight is computed. Lately, we expanded the priorly used code in Behrens et al., 2019 ( public version here) to work on such meshless structure.

#### Single-Degenerate Type 1a Supernovae Simulations

Binary Chandrasekhar-mass white dwarfs accreting mass from non-degenerate stellar companions through the single-degenerate channel have reigned for decades as the leading explanation of Type Ia supernovae. Yet, a coherent theoretical explanation has not yet emerged to explain the expected properties of the canonical near-Chandrasekhar-mass white dwarf model. Such near-Chandrasekhar-mass SNe Ia are preceded by a simmering phase within the convective core of the white dwarf, leading to the ignition of one or more flame bubbles scattered across the core.

#### Impacts of the Large Scale Structure on Detected Lyman Alpha Emitters

In 1967 Partridge and Peebles theorized that young galaxies at high redshifts emitting Lyman-α photons might be a suitable tracer of large-scale structure. Those distant galaxies of high Lyman-α emission, so-called Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs) can be used to constrain the cosmological standard model at high redshifts and furthermore allow insight for the environment of those galaxies. The Lyman-α line corresponds to the energy difference from the ground state to the first excited state of neutral hydrogen.

# Recent & Upcoming Talks

### The Intrinsic Stochasticity of Single-Degenerate Type Ia Supernovae - A short introduction

Presenting a new set of three-dimensional simulations of single-degenerate (SD) Type Ia supernovae undergoing a gravitationally …

### Clustering Distortions from Lyman-alpha Radiative Transfer - A short introduction

The dimensionally split power spectrum/two-point correlation are standard tools for constraining the cosmological model from redshift …

### Clustering Distortions from Lyman-alpha Radiative Transfer

Lyman-alpha based emission line surveys are prone to errors in their interpretation due to the complex radiative transfer for this …

# Recent Publications

### The physical origins and dominant emission mechanisms of Lyman-alpha halos: results from TNG50 in comparison to MUSE observations

Extended Lyman-alpha emission around galaxies and quasars at high redshift – Lyman-alpha halos (LAHs) – are now commonly …

### Variations of Observed Lyman-α Spectra Shapes due to the Intergalactic Absorption

Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) spectra provide insights into the small-scale structure and kinematics of neutral hydrogen (HI) within …

### Radiative Transfer Distortions of Lyman-α Emitters: a New Fingers-of-God Damping in the Clustering in Redshift Space

Complex radiative transfer (RT) of the Lyman-$\alpha$ photons poses a theoretical challenge to galaxy surveys which infer the …

### The Intrinsic Stochasticity of the $^{56}$Ni Distribution of Single-Degenerate Near-Chandrasekhar Mass Type Ia Supernovae

Chandrasekhar-mass white dwarfs accreting mass from non-degenerate stellar companions through the single-degenerate channel have …

### The impact of Lyman-α radiative transfer on large-scale clustering in the Illustris simulation

Lyman-$\alpha$ emitters (LAEs) are a promising probe of the large-scale structure at high redshift, $z\gtrsim 2$. In particular, the …