Publication List of Rennan Barkana


Refereed Publications

(Highlighted: physics and general science journals)


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


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


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


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


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


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 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 Above 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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