• Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.67-73
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• 2015

We present a novel method to implement time-delayed propagation of radiation fields in cosmological radiative transfer simulations. Time-delayed propagation of radiation fields requires construction of retarded-time fields by tracking the location and lifetime of radiation sources along the corresponding light-cones. Cosmological radiative transfer simulations have, until now, ignored this "light-cone effect" or implemented ray-tracing methods that are computationally demanding. We show that radiative transfer calculation of the time-delayed fields can be easily achieved in numerical simulations when periodic boundary conditions are used, by calculating the time-discretized retarded-time Green's function using the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) method and convolving it with the source distribution. We also present a direct application of this method to the long-range radiation field of Lyman-Werner band photons, which is important in the high-redshift astrophysics with first stars.

• Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.9-18
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• 2016

Euclid, which is primarily a dark-energy/cosmology mission, may have a microlensing component, consisting of perhaps four dedicated one-month campaigns aimed at the Galactic bulge. We show that such a program would yield excellent auxilliary science, including asteroseismology detections for about 100 000 giant stars, and detection of about 1000 Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs), down to 2-2.5 mag below the observed break in the KBO luminosity function at I ∼ 26. For the 400 KBOs below the break, Euclid will measure accurate orbits, with fractional period errors ≲ 2.5%.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.38.1-38.1
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• 2012

우주의 초기조건, 현재 그리고 미래를 정밀하게 예측하기 위한 관측 프로젝트들이 하나 둘씩 현실화 되어 가고 있다. 이러한 프로젝트 중의 하나인 분광 광시야 관측을 이용하여 우주론적인 질문에 대한 해답을 얻는 방법을 논의한다. 분광 광시야 관측에는 밀도 섭동과 고유 속도에 관련된 정보가 모두 포함되어 있는데, 아직 고유속도에 대한 정보를 어떻게 얻을 수 있는지에 대한 방법론을 확정하지 못하고 있다. 우리는 지난 이 삼 년 간의 연작형식의 논문을 통하여 새로운 방법을 개척했고, 그 방법을 미래의 정밀한 관측에도 적용하기 위해서 노력하고 있다. 이러한 노력은 우주가속팽창의 원인규명에 큰 공헌을 할 것이고, 우주가 팽창한 역사를 이론적인 모델에 독립적으로 관측할 수 있는 가능성을 열 것이다. 이 발표를 통하여, 분광 광시야 관측의 우주론적인 의미, 관측된 자료를 분석할 수 있는 새로운 방법, 그리고 미래에 예정된 정밀한 관측 프로젝트들에 대해서 논의한다.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.73.3-73.3
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• 2017

Environment has a significant impact on the evolution of dark halo profiles. We used a cosmological N-body simulation based on WMAP5 cosmology to study environmental effects on halo profiles. Host haloes located in sparse regions are highly concentrated, and more massive haloes have higher concentration index. This is because mass accretion affects only the outer part of the halo and consequently increase the virial radius having no effect on the scale radius. Conversely, host haloes located in dense regions have low concentration index. This is because frequent mergers affect even the inner part of the halo. So, scale radius increases with the growth of virial radius. Evolutions of subhalo profiles are essentially different from those of host haloes because subhaloes undergo tidal stripping. The stripping begins once a subhalo approaches closer than ~3 virial radii of the host halo. During the stripping, the inner part of the subhalo keep following NFW profile, but the mass of the outer part gradually decreases. As a result, when the subhalo reaches the pericenter of its host, only about inner 30% of the subhalo follows the NFW profile.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.72.3-73
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• 2017

The spatial distribution of sub-halos in a large host halo is usually described as isotropic in the ${\Lambda}CDM$ cosmology. Recent observations, however, show that satellite galaxies around massive galaxies are often located within a preferred plane. In order to understand the origin of such planar alignment, we investigate the spatial distribution of sub-halos around their hosts by using the hydrodynamic cosmological simulation, Illustris. In particular, we analyze the systems resembling the Milky Way (MW) and its satellites, i.e. consisting of MW-sized central galaxy and its at least 11 satellites. The result shows that ~10 % of MW-like systems have the anisotropic satellite galaxy distribution at z = 0. The satellites that are accreted more recently tend to form a flattened structure more frequently, indicating a link of satellite distribution to the surrounding environment. We discuss the physical origin of the anisotropic satellite distribution from the viewpoint of the ${\Lambda}CDM$ paradigm.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.78.3-78.3
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• 2017

The positions of galaxies in comoving Cartesian space varies under different cosmological parameter choices, inducing a redshift-dependent scaling in the galaxy distribution. The shape of the two-point correlation of galaxies exhibits a significant redshift evolution when the galaxy sample is analyzed under a cosmology differing from the true, simulated one. In our previous works, we can made use of this geometrical distortion to constrain the values of cosmological parameters governing the expansion history of the universe. This current work is a continuation of our previous works as a strategy to constrain cosmological parameters using redshift-invariant physical quantities. We now aim to understand the redshift evolution of the full shape of the small scale, anisotropic galaxy clustering and give a firmer theoretical footing to our previous works.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.40.1-40.1
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• 2017

Massive early-type galaxies (ETG) have been spectroscopically confirmed up to z>3 which, together with their ages and abundances at z>1.5, implies that their progenitors must have converted gas into stars on short timescales. The termination of star formation in these galaxies can occur through several channels, but they remain largely conjectural, in part due to the current lack of direct measurements of the amount of residual gas in high redshift ETGs. Here I will present constraints on the star formation rate and dust/gas content of z=1.4-2.5 ETGs. These galaxies, close to their epoch of quenching, contained more than 2 orders of magnitude more dust than their local counterparts, which suggests the presence of substantial amounts of gas and a low star formation efficiency.

• Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.67-79
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• 2019

We present a semi-analytical method to calculate the global evolution of the ionized state of the intergalactic medium, on the basis of physically motivated star formation histories in the early universe. This method incorporates not only the conventional scenarios in which the star formation rate is proportional to the growth rate of the halo collapse fraction, but also the more sophisticated scenarios in which the star formation is self-regulated. We show that this variance in the star-formation model strongly impacts the resulting reionization history, which bears a prospect for observational discrimination of these models. We discuss how observations of the anisotropic polarization of the cosmic microwave background and the global 21cm signal from the high-redshift universe, most notably by Planck and EDGES, may probe the history of reionization.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.48.4-49
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• 2017

We aim to trace cosmic mass accretion history of satellites around a dwarf galaxy in Lambda-CDM cosmology frame. Each satellite has a unique mass accretion history due to different environment, potential depth, and different merging events. We perform three different zoom simulations whose target galaxy has a mass of ${\sim}10^{10}Msun$, using ~17 million particles covering a cubic box of $1(Mpc/h)^3$. Here, individual particle masses for dark matter (DM) and gas are $M_{DM}=4.1{\times}10^3Msun$ and $Mgas=7.9{\times}10^2Msun$, respectively, and thus each satellite can be resolved with more than several hundreds of particles.

• Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.105-108
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• 1998

We have found that the two-point correlation function of the APM clusters of galaxies has an amplitude much higher than that claimed by the APM group. As the richness limit increases from R = 53 to 80, the correlation length increases from 17.5 to 28.9 $h^{-1}Mpc$. This indicates that the richness dependence of the APM cluster correlation function is also much stronger than what the APM group has reported. The richness dependence can be represented by a fitting formula ro = 0.53dc + 0.01, which is consistent with the Bahcall's formula ro = 0.4dc. We have tried to find the possible reason for discrepancies. However, our estimates for the APM cluster correlation function are found to be robust against variation of the method of calculation and of sample definition.