Publications by Britton Smith

Pinpointing the cosmic web between massive galaxy clusters I. The incidence of HI and OVI as WHIM tracers
Karen Martínez-Acosta, Nicolas Tejos, Ismael Pessa, J Xavier Prochaska, Joseph Burchett, Britton Smith, Jessica Werk, Nelson Padilla and Sebastián López, Astronomy & Astrophysics (2026)
Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies In Enzo (FOGGIE). XIII. On the Observability of Extended HI Disks and Warps DOI
Cameron W. Trapp, Molly S. Peeples, Jason Tumlinson, Brian W. O'Shea, Anna C. Wright, Ayan Acharyya, Britton D. Smith, Vida Saeedzadeh and Ramona Augustin, Astrophysical Journal, 1005, 2, p. 1-17 (2026)
Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). XV. Examining the Spatial and Kinematic Relationship between Circumgalactic Mg II and O VI DOI
Mackenzie Ticoras, Brian W. O'Shea, Claire Kopenhafer, Cassandra Lochhaas, Molly S. Peeples, Jason Tumlinson, Cameron Trapp, Vida Saeedzadeh, Ramona Augustin, Britton D. Smith et al., Astrophysical Journal, 1004, 2, p. 1-13 (2026)
Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies In Enzo (FOGGIE). XIV. The Observability of Emission from Accretion and Feedback in the Circumgalactic Medium with Current and Future Instruments DOI
Vida Saeedzadeh, Jason Tumlinson, Molly S. Peeples, Brian W. O'Shea, Cassandra Lochhaas, Lauren Corlies, Cameron W. Trapp, Britton D. Smith, Jessica K. Werk, Ayan Acharyya et al., Astrophysical Journal, 1004, 1, p. 1-28 (2026)
FOGGIE: Figuring Out Gas and Galaxies In Enzo. XII. The Formation and Evolution of Extended H i Galactic Disks and Warps with a Dynamic Circumgalactic Medium DOI
Cameron W. Trapp, Molly S. Peeples, Jason Tumlinson, Brian W. Oshea, Cassandra Lochhaas, Anna C. Wright, Britton D. Smith, Vida Saeedzadeh, Ayan Acharyya, Ramona Augustin et al., Astrophysical Journal, 1003, 2, p. 1-24 (2026)
Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). XI. Circumgalactic O VI Emission Traces Clumpy Inflowing Recycled Gas DOI
Cassandra Lochhaas, Molly S. Peeples, Brian W. O'shea, Jason Tumlinson, Lauren Corlies, Vida Saeedzadeh, Nicolas Lehner, Anna C. Wright, Jessica K. Werk, Britton D. Smith et al., Astrophysical Journal, 1000, 1, p. 1-21 (2026)
FOGGIE. X. Characterizing the Small-scale Structure of the Circumgalactic Medium and Its Imprint on Observables DOI
Ramona Augustin, Jason Tumlinson, Molly S. Peeples, Brian W. O'Shea, Britton D. Smith, Cassandra Lochhaas, Anna C. Wright, Ayan Acharyya, Jessica K. Werk, Nicolas Lehner et al., Astrophysical Journal, 993, 1, p. 1-23 (2025)
Impacts of the Metagalactic Ultraviolet Background on Circumgalactic Medium Absorption Systems DOI
Elias Taira, Claire Kopenhafer, Brian W. Oshea, Alexis Manning, Evelyn Fuhrman, Molly S. Peeples, Jason Tumlinson and Britton D. Smith, Astrophysical Journal, 991, 2, p. 1-17 (2025)
Figuring Out Gas and Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). IX. The Angular Momentum Evolution of Milky Way-like Galaxies and Their Circumgalactic Gas DOI
Raymond C. Simons, Molly S. Peeples, Jason Tumlinson, Brian W. O'Shea, Cassandra Lochhaas, Anna C. Wright, Ayan Acharyya, Ramona Augustin, Kathleen A. Hamilton-Campos, Britton D. Smith et al., Astrophysical Journal, 988, 2, p. 1-27 (2025)
Conditions for Super-Eddington Accretion onto the First Black Holes DOI
Simone T. Gordon, Britton D. Smith, Sadegh Khochfar and Ricarda S. Beckmann, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 537, 2, p. 674-690 (2025)
A Heavy Seed Black Hole Mass Function at High Redshift -- Prospects for LISA DOI
Joe M. McCaffrey, John A. Regan, Britton D. Smith, John H. Wise, Brian W. O'Shea and Michael L. Norman, The Open Journal of Astrophysics, 8, p. 1-16 (2025)
Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies In Enzo (FOGGIE) VIII: Complex and Stochastic Metallicity Gradients at z > 2 DOI
Ayan Acharyya, Molly S. Peeples, Jason Tumlinson, Brian W. O'Shea, Cassandra Lochhaas, Anna C. Wright, Raymond C. Simons, Ramona Augustin, Britton D. Smith and Eugene Hyeonmin Lee, Astrophysical Journal, 979, 2, p. 1-31 (2025)
SIMBA-EOR: early galaxy formation in the simba simulation including a new sub-grid interstellar medium model DOI
E Jones, B Smith, R Davé, D Narayanan and Q Li, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 535, 2, p. 1293-1314 (2024)
Why does the Milky Way have a metallicity floor? DOI
Britton D. Smith, Brian W. O'Shea, Sadegh Khochfar, Matthew J. Turk, John H. Wise and Michael L. Norman, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532, 4, p. 3797-3807 (2024)
Figuring Out Gas and Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). VII. The (Dis)assembly of Stellar Halos DOI
Anna C. Wright, Jason Tumlinson, Molly S. Peeples, Brian W. O’Shea, Cassandra Lochhaas, Lauren Corlies, Britton D. Smith, Nguyen Binh, Ramona Augustin and Raymond C. Simons, Astrophysical Journal, 970, 1, p. 1-25 (2024)
Rest-frame UV Colors for Faint Galaxies at z ∼ 9–16 with the JWST NGDEEP Survey DOI
Alexa M. Morales, Steven L. Finkelstein, Gene C. K. Leung, Micaela B. Bagley, Nikko J. Cleri, Romeel Dave, Mark Dickinson, Henry C. Ferguson, Nimish P. Hathi, Ewan Jones, Britton Smith et al., Astrophysical Journal Letters, 964, 2, p. 1-18 (2024)
Hungry or not: how stellar-mass black holes grow (or don't) in dark matter mini-haloes at high resolution DOI
Simone T Gordon, Britton D Smith, Sadegh Khochfar and John Anthony Regan, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume, 529, 1, p. 604-627 (2024)
The Role of Radiation and Halo Mergers in Pop III Star Formation DOI
Lilia Correa Magnus, Britton D. Smith, Sadegh Khochfar, Brian W. O'Shea, John H. Wise, Michael L. Norman and Matthew J. Turk, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527, 1, p. 307-320 (2024)
Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies In Enzo (FOGGIE) VI:The Circumgalactic Medium of L∗ Galaxies is Supported in an Emergent, Non-HydrostaticEquilibrium DOI
Cassandra Lochhaas, Jason Tumlinson, Molly S. Peeples, Brian W. O'Shea, Jessica K. Werk, Raymond C. Simons, James Juno, Claire Kopenhafer, Ramona Augustin, Britton D. Smith et al., Astrophysical Journal, 948, 1, p. 1-29 (2023)
The fate of baryons in counterfactual universes DOI
Boon Kiat Oh, John A. Peacock, Sadegh Khochfar and Britton D. Smith, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 517, 1, p. 59-75 (2022)
The Cosmic Mach Number as an Environment Measure for the Underlying Dark Matter Density Field DOI
Romain Meriot, Sadegh Khochfar, Jose Onorbe and Britton Smith, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512, 1, p. 27-40 (2022)
Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies In Enzo (FOGGIE). V. The Virial Temperature Does Not Describe Gas in a Virialized Galaxy Halo DOI
Cassandra Lochhaas, Jason Tumlinson, Brian W. O'Shea, Molly S. Peeples, Britton D. Smith, Jessica K. Werk, Ramona Augustin and Raymond C. Simons, Astrophysical Journal, 922, 2, p. 1-23 (2021)
Evolving beyond z=0: insights about the future of stars and the intergalactic medium DOI
Boon Kiat Oh, John A. Peacock, Sadegh Khochfar and Britton D. Smith, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 507, 4, p. 5432-5450 (2021)
The low-redshift circumgalactic medium in SIMBA DOI
Sarah Appleby, Romeel Dave, Daniele Sorini, Kate Storey-Fisher and Britton Smith, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 507, 2, p. 2383-2404 (2021)
The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. III DOI
AGORA Collaboration, Astrophysical Journal, 917, 2, p. 1-24 (2021)
External Enrichment of Minihalos by the First Supernovae DOI
William Hicks, Azton Wells, Michael L. Norman, John H. Wise, Britton D. Smith and Brian W. O'Shea, Astrophysical Journal, 909, 1, p. 1-11 (2021)
Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies In Enzo (FOGGIE). IV. The Stochasticity of Ram Pressure Stripping in Galactic Halos DOI
Raymond C. Simons, Molly S. Peeples, Jason Tumlinson, Brian W. O'Shea, Britton D. Smith, Lauren Corlies, Cassandra Lochhaas, Yong Zheng, Ramona Augustin, Deovrat Prasad et al., Astrophysical Journal, 905, 2, p. 1-16 (2020)
Calibration of a star formation and feedback model for cosmological simulations with Enzo DOI
Boon Kiat Oh, Britton D. Smith, John A. Peacock and Sadegh Khochfar, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 497, 4, p. 5203-5219 (2020)
Is authorship sufficient for today’s collaborative research? A call for contributor roles DOI
Nicole A Vasilevsky, Mohammad Hosseini, Samantha Teplitzky, Violeta Ilik, Ehsan Mohammadi, Juliane Schneider, Barbara Kern, Julien Colomb, Scott C Edmunds, Britton D. Smith et al., Accountability in Research: Policies and Quality Assurance (2020)
Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). III. The Mocky Way DOI
Yong Zheng, Molly S. Peeples, Brian W. O'Shea, Raymond C. Simons, Cassandra Lochhaas, Lauren Corlies, Jason Tumlinson, Britton D. Smith and Ramona Augustin, Astrophysical Journal, 896, 2 (2020)
Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). II. Emission from the z=3 Circumgalactic Medium DOI
Lauren Corlies, Molly S. Peeples, Jason Tumlinson, Brian W. O'Shea, Nicolas Lehner, J. Christopher Howk, John M. O'Meara and Britton D. Smith, Astrophysical Journal, 896, 2 (2020)
ytree: A Python package for analyzing merger trees DOI
Britton D. Smith and Meagan Lang, The Journal of Open Source Software (2019)
The Impact of Enhanced Halo Resolution on the Simulated Circumgalactic Medium DOI
Cameron B. Hummels, Britton D. Smith, Philip F. Hopkins, Brian W. O'Shea, Devin W. Silvia, Jessica K. Werk, Nicolas Lehner, John H. Wise, David C. Collins and Iryna S. Butsky, Astrophysical Journal (2019)
Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). I. Resolving Simulated Circumgalactic Absorption at 2 ≤ z ≤ 2.5 DOI
Molly S. Peeples, Lauren Corlies, Jason Tumlinson, Brian W. O'Shea, Nicolas Lehner, John M. O'Meara, J. Christopher Howk, Nicholas Earl, Britton D. Smith, John H. Wise et al., Astrophysical Journal, 873, 2 (2019)
The Growth of Black Holes from Population III Remnants in the Renaissance Simulations DOI
Britton Smith, John Regan, Turlough Downes, Michael Norman, Brian O'Shea and John Wise, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2018)
GRACKLE: a chemistry and cooling library for astrophysics DOI
Britton D. Smith, Greg L. Bryan, Simon C. O. Glover, Nathan J. Goldbaum, Matthew J. Turk, John Regan, John H. Wise, Hsi-Yu Schive, Tom Abel, Andrew Emerick, Sadegh Khochfar et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 466, 2, p. 2217-2234 (2016)
Grackle: Chemistry and radiative cooling library for astrophysical simulations
Britton D. Smith, Greg L. Bryan, Simon C. O. Glover, Nathan J. Goldbaum, Matthew J. Turk, John Regan, John H. Wise, Hsi-Yu Schive, Tom Abel, Andrew Emerick, Sadegh Khochfar et al., Astrophysics Source Code Library (2016)
New constraints on direct collapse black hole formation in the early Universe DOI
Bhaskar Agarwal, Britton Smith, Simon Glover, Priyamvada Natarajan and Sadegh Khochfar, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 459, 4, p. 4209-4217 (2016)
The first Population II stars formed in externally enriched mini-haloes DOI
Britton D. Smith, John H. Wise, Brian W. O'Shea, Michael L. Norman and Sadegh Khochfar, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452, 3, p. 2822-2836 (2015)
The birth of a galaxy – III. Propelling reionization with the faintest galaxies DOI
John H. Wise, Vasiliy G. Demchenko, Martin T. Halicek, Michael L. Norman, Matthew J. Turk, Tom Abel and Britton D. Smith, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 442, 3, p. 2560-2579 (2014)
BRINGING SIMULATION AND OBSERVATION TOGETHER TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM DOI
Hilary Egan, Britton D. Smith, Brian W. O'Shea and J. Michael Shull, Astrophysical Journal, 791, 1 (2014)
Enzo: An adaptive mesh refinement code for astrophysics DOI
Enzo Collaboration, Greg L. Bryan, Michael L. Norman, Brian W. O'Shea, Tom Abel, John H. Wise, Matthew J. Turk, Daniel R. Reynolds, David C. Collins, Britton Smith et al., Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 211, 2 (2014)
FRAGMENTATION IN DUSTY LOW-METALLICITY STAR-FORMING HALOS DOI
Gregory R. Meece, Britton D. Smith and Brian W. O'Shea, Astrophysical Journal, 783, 2 (2014)
THE AGORA HIGH-RESOLUTION GALAXY SIMULATIONS COMPARISON PROJECT DOI
AGORA Collaboration, Ji-hoon Kim, Tom Abel, Oscar Agertz, Greg L. Bryan, Daniel Ceverino, Charlotte Christensen, Charlie Conroy, Avishai Dekel, Britton D. Smith et al., Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 210, 1 (2014)
COSMOLOGICAL SIMULATIONS OF ISOTROPIC CONDUCTION IN GALAXY CLUSTERS DOI
Britton Smith, Brian W. O'Shea, G. Mark Voit, David Ventimiglia and Samuel W. Skillman, Astrophysical Journal, 778, 2 (2013)
Modeling of Emission Signatures of Massive Black Hole Binaries DOI
Tamara Bogdanovic, Britton D. Smith, Steinn Sigurdsson and Michael Eracleous, Astrophysical Journal Supplement (2008)
The Transition from the First Stars to the Second Stars in the Early Universe DOI
Britton D. Smith and Steinn Sigurdsson, Astrophysical Journal Letters (2007)
1/f Noise and Hot Electron Effects in Variable Range Hopping Conduction DOI
D McCammon, M Galeazzi, D. Liu, W T Sanders, Britton Smith, P Tan, K R Boyce, R Brekosky, J D Gygax, R Kelley et al., physica status solidi (b) – basic solid state physics, 230, 1, p. 197-204 (2002)

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Publications by Britton Smith