Publication List of Rennan Barkana


Refereed Publications

(Highlighted: physics and general science journals)


64. Reconstructing the nature of the first cosmic sources from the anisotropic 21-cm signal by Anastasia Fialkov, Rennan Barkana, and Aviad Cohen, Physical Review Letters , accepted (2015)


63. The rich complexity of 21-cm fluctuations produced by the first stars, by Anastasia Fialkov and Rennan Barkana, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445, 213 (2014)


62. High-redshift star formation in a time-dependent Lyman-Werner background, by Eli Visbal, Zoltan Haiman, Bryan Terrazas, Greg L. Bryan, and Rennan Barkana, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445, 107 (2014)


61. The observable signature of late heating of the Universe during cosmic reionization by Anastasia Fialkov, Rennan Barkana, and Eli Visbal, Nature, 506, 197 (2014)


60. Complete history of the observable 21 cm signal from the first stars during the pre-reionization era, by Anastasia Fialkov, Rennan Barkana, Arazi Pinhas, and Eli Visbal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 437, 36 (2014)


59. The 21-cm signature of the first stars during the Lyman-Werner feedback era, by Anastasia Fialkov, Rennan Barkana, Eli Visbal, Dmitriy Tseliakhovich, and Christopher Hirata, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 432, 2909 (2013)


58. Luminosity Bias. II. The Cosmic Web of the First Stars, by Rennan Barkana, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , 30, 36 (2013)


57. Studying cosmic reionization with observations of the global 21-cm signal, by Andrea Morandi and Rennan Barkana, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 424, 2551 (2012)


56. Impact of the relative motion between the dark matter and baryons on the first stars: semi-analytical modelling, by Anastasia Fialkov, Rennan Barkana, Dmitriy Tseliakhovich, and Christopher Hirata, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 424, 1335 (2012)


55. The signature of the first stars in atomic hydrogen at redshift 20, by Eli Visbal, Rennan Barkana, Anastasia Fialkov, Dmitriy Tseliakhovich, and Christopher Hirata, Nature, 487, 70 (2012)


54. Profiles of Dark Matter Velocity Anisotropy in Simulated Clusters, by Doron Lemze, Rick Wagner, Yoel Rephaeli, Sharon Sadeh, Mike Norman, Rennan Barkana, Tom Broadhurst, Holland Ford, and Marc Postman, The Astrophysical Journal, 752, 141 (2012)


53. Suppression and spatial variation of early galaxies and minihalos, by Dmitriy Tseliakhovich, Rennan Barkana, and Christopher Hirata, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 418, 906 (2011)


52. Triaxiality and non-thermal gas pressure in Abell 1689, by Andrea Morandi, Marceau Limousin, Yoel Rephaeli, Keiichi Umetsu, Rennan Barkana, Tom Broadhurst, and Hakon Dahle, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 416, 2567 (2011)


51. The non-linear evolution of baryonic overdensities in the early universe: initial conditions of numerical simulations by Smadar Naoz, Naoki Yoshida, and Rennan Barkana, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 416, 232 (2011)


50. Scale-Dependent Bias of Galaxies from Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations, by Rennan Barkana and Abraham Loeb, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 415, 3113 (2011)


49. Quantifying the collisionless nature of dark matter and galaxies in A1689 by Doron Lemze, Yoel Rephaeli, Rennan Barkana, Tom Broadhurst, Rick Wagner, and Mike Norman, The Astrophysical Journal, 728, 40 (2011)


48. Strong-Lensing Analysis of a Complete Sample of 12 MACS Clusters at z>0.5: Mass Models and Einstein Radii by Adi Zitrin, Tom Broadhurst, Rennan Barkana, Yoel Rephaeli, and Narciso Benitez, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 410, 1939 (2011)


47. Statistics of 21-cm fluctuations in cosmic reionization simulations: PDFs and difference PDFs by Vera Gluscevic and Rennan Barkana, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 408, 2373 (2010)


46. Measuring the History of Cosmic Reionization using the 21-cm PDF from Simulations by Kazuhide Ichikawa, Rennan Barkana, Ilian Iiev, Garrelt Mellema, and Paul Shapiro, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 406, 2521 (2010)


45. Concentrating the Dark Matter in Galaxy Clusters through Tidal Stripping of Baryonically-Compressed Galactic Halos by Rennan Barkana and Abraham Loeb, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 405, 1969 (2010)


44. Gas in Simulations of High Redshift Galaxies and Minihalos by Smadar Naoz, Rennan Barkana, and Andrei Mesinger, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 399, 369 (2009)


43. Dynamical Study of A1689 from Wide-Field VLT/VIMOS Spectroscopy: Mass Profile, Concentration Parameter, and Velocity Anisotropy by Doron Lemze, Tom Broadhurst, Yoel Rephaeli, Rennan Barkana, and Keiichi Umetsu, The Astrophysical Journal, 701, 1336 (2009)


42. Studying the sources of cosmic reionization with 21-cm fluctuations by Rennan Barkana, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 397, 1454 (2009)


41. The Infancy of Cosmic Reionization by Rennan Barkana, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 391, 727 (2008)


40. Large Einstein Radii: A Problem for ΛCDM by Tom Broadhurst and Rennan Barkana, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 390, 1647 (2008)


39. Mass and Gas Profiles in A1689: Joint X-ray and Lensing Analysis by Doron Lemze, Rennan Barkana, Tom Broadhurst, and Yoel Rephaeli, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 386, 1092 (2008)


38. Detecting Early Galaxies Through Their 21-cm Signature by Smadar Naoz and Rennan Barkana, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters, 385, 63 (2008)


37. The Difference PDF of 21-cm Fluctuations: A Powerful Statistical Tool for Probing Cosmic Reionization by Rennan Barkana and Abraham Loeb, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 384, 1069 (2008)


36. The Formation and Gas Content of High Redshift Galaxies and Minihalos by Smadar Naoz and Rennan Barkana, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 377, 667 (2007)


35. The Physics and Early History of the Intergalactic Medium by Rennan Barkana and Abraham Loeb, Reports on Progress in Physics, 70, 627 (2007)


34. On Correlated Random Walks and 21-cm Fluctuations During Cosmic Reionization by Rennan Barkana, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 376, 1784 (2007)


33. The First Stars in the Universe by Smadar Naoz, Shay Noter, and Rennan Barkana, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters, 373, 98 (2006)


32. Separating out the Alcock-Paczynski Effect on 21-cm Fluctuations by Rennan Barkana, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 372, 259 (2006)


31. Light-Cone Anisotropy in 21-cm Fluctuations during the Epoch of Reionization by Rennan Barkana and Abraham Loeb, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 372, 43 (2006)


30. Detecting Reionization in the Star Formation Histories of High-Redshift Galaxies by Rennan Barkana and Abraham Loeb, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 371, 395 (2006)


29. The First Stars in the Universe and Cosmic Reionization by Rennan Barkana, Science, 313, 931 (2006)


28. A Cosmic Relation between Extinction and Star Formation by Oren Zoran, Rennan Barkana, and Rodger I. Thompson, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters, 368, 47 (2006)


27. Probing the Epoch of Early Baryonic Infall Through 21-cm Fluctuations by Rennan Barkana and Abraham Loeb, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters, 363, 36 (2005)


26. Growth of Linear Perturbations before the Era of the First Galaxies by Smadar Naoz and Rennan Barkana, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 362, 1047 (2005)


25. Detecting the Earliest Galaxies Through Two New Sources of 21cm Fluctuations by Rennan Barkana and Abraham Loeb, The Astrophysical Journal, 626, 1 (2005)


24. A Method for Separating the Physics from the Astrophysics of High-Redshift 21cm Fluctuations by Rennan Barkana and Abraham Loeb, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 624, 65 (2005)


23. Was the Universe Reionized at Redshift 10? by Abraham Loeb, Rennan Barkana, and Lars Hernquist, The Astrophysical Journal, 620, 553 (2005)


22. Unusually Large Fluctuations in the Statistics of Galaxy Formation at High Redshift by Rennan Barkana and Abraham Loeb, The Astrophysical Journal, 609, 474 (2004)


21. GRBs versus Quasars: Lyman-alpha Signatures of Reionization versus Cosmological Infall by Rennan Barkana and Abraham Loeb, The Astrophysical Journal, 601, 64 (2004)


20. A Model For Infall Around Virialized Halos by Rennan Barkana, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 347, 59 (2004)


19. Spectral Signature of Cosmological Infall Around the First Quasars by Rennan Barkana and Abraham Loeb, Nature, 421, 341 (2003)


18. Effective Screening due to Minihalos during the Epoch of Reionization by Rennan Barkana and Abraham Loeb, The Astrophysical Journal, 578, 1 (2002)


17. The Star Formation Rate Intensity Distribution Function -- Comparison of Observations with Hierarchical Galaxy Formation by Rennan Barkana, New Astronomy, 7, 337 (2002)


16. An Analytical Approach to Inhomogeneous Structure Formation by Evan Scannapieco and Rennan Barkana, The Astrophysical Journal, 571, 585 (2002)


15. Did the Universe Reionize at Redshift Six? by Rennan Barkana, New Astronomy, 7, 85 (2002)


14. Constraints on Warm Dark Matter from Cosmological Reionization by Rennan Barkana, Zoltan Haiman, and Jerry Ostriker, The Astrophysical Journal, 558, 482 (2001)


13. In the Beginning: The First Sources of Light and the Reionization of the Universe by Rennan Barkana and Abraham Loeb, Physics Reports, 349(2), 125 (2001) [Also available here]


12. The Reionization of the Universe by the First Stars and Quasars by Abraham Loeb and Rennan Barkana, Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 39, 19 (2001)


11. Fuzzy Cold Dark Matter: The Wave Properties of Ultralight Particles by Wayne Hu, Rennan Barkana, and Andrei Gruzinov, Physical Review Letters, 85, 1158 (2000)


10. Identifying the Reionization Redshift from the Cosmic Star Formation Rate by Rennan Barkana and Abraham Loeb, The Astrophysical Journal, 539, 20 (2000)


9. High-Redshift Galaxies: Their Predicted Size and Surface Brightness Distributions and Their Gravitational Lensing Probability by Rennan Barkana and Abraham Loeb, The Astrophysical Journal, 531, 613 (2000)


8. The Photo-Evaporation of Dwarf Galaxies During Reionization by Rennan Barkana and Abraham Loeb, The Astrophysical Journal, 523, 54 (1999)


7. A Reassessment of the Data and Models of the Gravitational Lens Q0957+561 by Rennan Barkana, Joseph Lehar, Emilio Falco, Norman Grogin, Charles Keeton, and Irwin Shapiro, The Astrophysical Journal, 520, 479 (1999); covariance matrix from VLBI fits available here


6. A Possible Gravitational Lens in the Hubble Deep Field South by Rennan Barkana, Roger Blandford, and David Hogg, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 513, 91 (1999)


5. Fast Calculation of a Family of Elliptical Mass Gravitational Lens Models by Rennan Barkana, The Astrophysical Journal, 502, 531 (1998); paper+code available here


4. Analysis of Time Delays in the Gravitational Lens PG 1115+080 by Rennan Barkana, The Astrophysical Journal, 489, 21 (1997)


3. Limits on a Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves from Gravitational Lensing by Rennan Bar-Kana, Physical Review D, 54, 7138 (1996)


2. Effect of Large-Scale Structure on Multiply Imaged Sources by Rennan Bar-Kana, The Astrophysical Journal, 468, 17 (1996)


1. Limits on Direct Detection of Gravitational Waves by Rennan Bar-Kana, Physical Review D, 50, 1157 (1994)




Media Stories Based on the 2014 Publication in Nature are listed here.



Media Stories Based on the 2012 Publication in Nature are listed here.



Media Stories Based on the 2006 Publication in MNRAS Letters :


The First Star: Things Heated Up Quickly, Scientists Say on Space.com, July 17, 2006, available here.





Media Stories Based on the 2003 Publication in Nature are listed here.



Media Stories Based on the Above Publication in Physical Review Letters :


Globs in Space in New Scientist, August 26, 2000, p. 5, also available here


A Galactic Condensate in Physical Review Focus 6 , story 5, August 9, 2000, available here


Bose-Einstein offers view on dwarf galaxies in Laser Focus World 36 (10), October, 2000, also available here




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