Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
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The Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Thesis: The Transition from Pop III to Pop II Star Formation in the Early Universe [ADS]
Thesis Advisor: Steinn Sigurdsson
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Institute for Astronomy
University of Edinburgh
Institute for Astronomy
University of Edinburgh
San Diego Supercomputer Center
University of California, San Diego
Institute for Astronomy
University of Edinburgh
Supervisor: Sadegh Khochfar
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Michigan State University
Supervisors: Mark Voit, Brian O'Shea
Center for Astrophysics & Space Astronomy
Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
University of Colorado, Boulder
Supervisor: Mike Shull
Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Supervisor: Steinn Sigurdsson
Department of Physics
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Supervisor: Dan McCammon
PHYS08026: Computer Simulation, Course Organizer, Lecturer
PHYS10090: Numerical Recipes, Course Organizer, Lecturer
PHYS11037: Computational Astrophysics, Guest Lecturer
Astronomy 6000: Graduate Seminar in Astrophysics - The First Stars
Astronomy 011: Introductory Astronomy Lab, Instructor
Astronomy 197A: Special Topics in Astronomy: Black Holes, Substitute Lecturer
Astronomy 452: Techniques in Observation and Data Analysis Lab, Lab Supervisor
Astronomy 475W: Stars and Galaxies, Substitute Lecturer
Impacts of the Metagalactic Ultraviolet Background on Circumgalactic Medium Absorption Systems, [ADS], Taira, E., Kopenhafer, C., Oshea, B.W., Manning, A., Fuhrman, E., Peeples, M.S., Tumlinson, J., Smith, B.D., 2025, submitted to ApJ.
FOGGIE X: Characterizing the Small-Scale Structure of the CGM and its Imprint on Observables, [ADS], Augustin, R., Tumlinson, J., Peeples, M.S., O'Shea, B.W., Smith, B.D., Lochhaas, C., Wright, A.C., Acharyya, A., Werk, J.K., Lehner, N., Howk, J.C., Corlies, L., Simons, R.C., O'Meara, J.M., 2025, submitted to ApJ.
Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). IX: The Angular Momentum Evolution of Milky Way-like Galaxies and their Circumgalactic Gas, [ADS], Simons, R.C., Peeples, M.S., Tumlinson, J., O'Shea, B.W., Lochhaas, C., Wright, A.C., Acharyya, A., Augustin, R., Hamilton-Campos, K.A., Smith, B.D., Lehner, N., Werk, J.K., Zheng, Y., 2025, ApJ, in press.
A Heavy Seed Black Hole Mass Function at High Redshift -- Prospects for LISA, [ADS], McCaffrey, J., Regan, J., Smith, B., Wise, J., O'Shea, B., Norman, M, 2025, The Open Journal of Astrophysics, 8, 11.
Conditions for Super-Eddington Accretion onto the First Black Holes, [ADS], Gordon, S.T. , Smith, B.D., Khochfar, S., Beckmann, R.S., 2025, MNRAS, 537, 674.
Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies In Enzo (FOGGIE) VIII: Complex and Stochastic Metallicity Gradients at z > 2, [ADS], Acharyya, A., Peeples, M.S., Tumlinson, J., O'Shea, B.W., Lochhaas, C., Wright, A.C., Simons, R.C., Augustin, R., Smith, B.D., Hyeonmin Lee, E., 2024, ApJ, 979, 129.
Simba-EoR: Early galaxy formation in the Simba simulation including a new sub-grid interstellar medium model, [ADS], Jones, E., Smith, B., Davé, R., Narayanan, D., Li, Q., 2024, MNRAS, 535, 1293.
Why does the Milky Way have a metallicity floor?, [ADS], Smith, B.D., O'Shea B.W., Khochfar, S., Turk M.J., Wise J.H., Norman, M.L., 2024, MNRAS, 532, 3797.
Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies In Enzo (FOGGIE) VII: The (Dis)Assembly of Stellar Halos, [ADS], Wright, A.C., Tumlinson, J., Peeples, M.S. , O'Shea, B.W., Lochhaas, C., Corlies, L., Smith, B.D., Binh, N., Augustin, R., Simons, R.C., 2024, ApJ, 970, 70.
Rest-Frame UV Colors for Faint Galaxies at z∼9−16 with the JWST NGDEEP Survey, [ADS], Morales, A.M., Finkelstein, S.L., Leung, G.C.K., Bagley, M.B., Cleri, N.J., Dave, R., Dickinson, M., Ferguson, H.C., Hathi, N.P. , Jones, E., Koekemoer, A.M., Papovich, C., Perez-Gonzalez, P.G., Pirzkal, N., Smith, B., ; Wilkins, S.M., Yung, L.Y.A., 2024, ApJL, 964, L24.
Hungry or Not: How Stellar-Mass Black Holes Grow (or Don't) in Dark Matter Mini-Haloes at High-Resolution, [ADS], Gordon, S., Smith, B., Khochfar, S., Regan, J., 2024, MNRAS, 529, 604.
The role of radiation and halo mergers in Pop III star formation, [ADS], Correa Magnus, L., Smith, B.D., Khochfar, S., O'Shea, B.W. , Wise, J.H., Norman, M. L., Turk, M.J., 2024, MNRAS, 527, 307.
Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). VI. The Circumgalactic Medium of L * Galaxies Is Supported in an Emergent, Nonhydrostatic Equilibrium, [ADS], Lochhaas, C., Tumlinson, J., Peeples, M.S. , O'Shea, B.W., Werk, J.K., Simons, R.C., Juno, J., Kopenhafer, C., Augustin, R., Wright, A. C., Acharyya, A., Smith, B.D., 2023, ApJ, 948, 43.
The fate of baryons in counterfactual universes, [ADS], Kiat Oh, B., Peacock, J.A., Khochfar, S., Smith, B.D., 2022, MNRAS, 517, 59.
The Cosmic Mach Number as an environment measure for the underlying dark matter density field, [ADS], Meriot, R., Khochfar, S., Oñorbe, J., Smith, B, 2022, MNRAS, 512, 27.
Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies In Enzo (FOGGIE) V: The Virial Temperature Does Not Describe Gas in a Virialized Galaxy Halo, [ADS], Lochhaas, C., Tumlinson, J. O'Shea, B.W., Peeples, M.S., Smith, B.D., Werk, J.K., Augustin, R., Simons, R.C., 2021, ApJ, 922, 121.
Evolving beyond z=0: insights about the future of stars and the intergalactic medium, [ADS], Oh, B.K., Peacock, J.A., Khochfar, S., Smith, B.D., 2021, MNRAS, 507, 5432.
The low-redshift circumgalactic medium in SIMBA, [ADS], Appleby, S., Davé, R., Sorini, D., Storey-Fisher, K., Smith, B., 2021, MNRAS, 507, 2383.
The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. III. Cosmological Zoom-in Simulation of a Milky Way-mass Halo, [ADS], Roca-Fàbrega, S., Kim, J., Hausammann, L., Nagamine, K., Lupi, A., Powell, J.W., Shimizu, I., Ceverino, D., Primack, J.R., Quinn, T.R., Revaz, Y., Velàzquez, H., Abel, T., Buehlmann, M., Dekel, A., Dong, B., Hahn, O., Hummels, C., Kim, K., and Smith, B.D., and Strawn, C., Teyssier, R., Turk, M.J., The AGORA Collaboration, 2021, ApJ, 917, 64.
External Enrichment of Mini Halos by the First Supernovae, [ADS], Hicks, W., Wells, A., Norman, M.L., Wise, J.H., Smith, B.D., O'Shea, B.W., 2021, ApJ, 909 70.
Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). IV. The Stochasticity of Ram Pressure Stripping in Galactic Halos, [ADS], Simons, R.C., Peeples, M.S., Tumlinson, J., O'Shea, B.W., Smith, B.D., Corlies, L., Lochhaas, C., Zheng, Y., Augustin, R., Prasad, D., Snyder, G.F., Tollerud, E., 2020, ApJ, 905, 167S.
Calibration of a star formation and feedback model for cosmological simulations with ENZO, [ADS], Oh, B.K., Smith, B.D., Peacock, J.A., Khochfar, S., 2020, MNRAS, 497, 5203.
Is authorship sufficient for today’s collaborative research? A call for contributor roles, [Journal], Vasilevsky, N.A., Hosseini, M., Teplitzky, S., Ilik, V., Mohammadi, E., Schneider, J., Kern. B., Colomb. J., Edmunds, S.C., Gutzman, K., Himmelstein, D.S., White, M., Smith, B., O’Keefe, L., Haendel, M., Holmes, K.L., 2020, Accountability in Research: Policies and Quality Assurance.
Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). III. The Mocky Way: Investigating Biases in Observing the Milky Way's Circumgalactic Medium, [ADS], Zheng, Y., Peeples, M.S., O'Shea, B.W., S, R.C., Lochhaas, C., Corlies, L., Tumlinson, J., Smith, B.D., Augustin, R., 2020, ApJ, 896, 143.
Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). II. Emission from the z = 3 Circumgalactic Medium, [ADS], Corlies, L., Peeples, M.S., Tumlinson, J., O'Shea, B.W., Lehner, N., Howk, J.C., O'Meara, J.M., Smith, B.D., 2020, ApJ, 896, 125.
ytree: A Python package for analyzing merger trees, [ADS] [Journal], Smith, B., Lang, M., 2019, Journal of Open Source Software, 4(44), 1881.
The Impact of Enhanced Halo Resolution on the Simulated Circumgalactic Medium, [ADS], Hummels, C.B., Smith, B.D., Hopkins, P.F., O’Shea, B.W., Silvia, D.W., Werk, J.K.., Lehner, N, Wise, J.H., Collins, D.C., Butsky, I.S., 2019, ApJ, 882, 156.
Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). I. Resolving Simulated Circumgalactic Absorption at 2 ≤ z ≤ 2.5, [ADS], Peeples, M.S., Corlies, L., Tumlinson, J., O'Shea, B.W., Lehner, N., O'Meara, J.M., Howk, J.C., Earl, N., Smith, B.D., Wise, J.H., Hummels, C.B., 2019, ApJ, 873, 129.
Formation of First Galaxies inside Density Peaks and Voids under the Influence of Dark Matter-Baryon Streaming Velocity, I: Initial Condition and Simulation Scheme, [ADS], Ahn, K., & Smith, B.D., 2018, ApJ, 869, 76.
Imprints of the first billion years: Lyman limit systems at z ~ 5, [ADS], Crighton, N.H.M., Prochaska, J.X., Murphy, M.T., O'Meara, J.M., Worseck, G., Smith, B.D., 2018, MNRAS, 482, 1456.
Simulating the Cosmic Dawn with Enzo, [ADS] [Journal], Norman, M.L., Smith, B.D., Bordner, J., 2018, Frontiers of Astronomy and Space Sciences, 5, 34.
The growth of black holes from Population III remnants in the Renaissance simulations, [ADS], Smith, B.D., Regan, J.A., Downes, T.P., Norman, M.L., O'Shea, B.W., Wise, J.H., 2018, MNRAS, 480, 3762.
Validating Semi-Analytic Models of High-Redshift Galaxy Formation using Radiation Hydrodynamical Simulations, [ADS], Côté, B., Silvia, D., O'Shea, B.W., Smith, B., Wise, J.H., 2018, ApJ, 859, 67.
Gas cooling in hydrodynamic simulations with an exact time integration scheme, [ADS], Zhu, Q., Smith, B., Hernquist, L., 2017, MNRAS, 470, 1017.
Trident: a universal tool for generating synthetic absorption spectra from astrophysical simulations, [ADS], Hummels, C., Smith, B., Silvia, D., 2017, ApJ, 847, 59.
Probing the Dependence of the Intergalactic Medium on Large-scale Environment Using the Low-redshift Lyα Forest, [ADS], Tonnesen, S., Smith, B.D., Kollmeier, J.A.., Cen, R., 2017, 845, 47.
GRACKLE: a chemistry and cooling library for astrophysics, [ADS], Smith, B.D., Bryan, G.L., Glover, S.C.O., Goldbaum, N.J., Turk, M.J., Regan, J., Wise, J.H., Schive, H.-Y., Abel, T., Emerick, A., O'Shea, B.W., Anninos, P., Hummels, C.B., Khochfar, S., 2017, MNRAS, 466, 2217
The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. II. Isolated Disk Test [ADS], Kim, J.h., Agertz, O., Teyssier, R., Butler, M.J., Ceverino, D., Choi, J.H., Feldmann, R., Keller, B.W., Lupi, A., Quinn, T., Revaz, Y., Wallace, S., Gnedin, N.Y., Leitner, S.N., Shen, S., Smith, B.D., Thompson, R., Turk, M.J., Abel, T., Arraki, K.S., Benincasa, S.M., Chakrabarti, S., DeGraf, C., Dekel, A., Goldbaum, N.J., Hopkins, P.F., Hummels, C.B., Klypin, A., Li, H., Madau, P., Mandelker, N., Mayer, L., Nagamine, K., Nickerson, S., O'Shea, B.W., Primack, J.R., Roca-Fabrega, S., Semenov V., Shimizu, I., Simpson, C.M., Todoroki, K., Wadsley, J.W., Wise, J.H., AGORA Collaboration, 2016, ApJ, 833, 202 .
New constraints on direct collapse black hole formation in the early Universe [ADS], Agarwal, B., Smith, B., Glover, S., Natarajan, P., Khochfar, S., 2016, MNRAS, 459, 4209.
An HST/COS Survey of the Low-Redshift IGM. I. Survey, Methodology, and Overall Results [ADS], Danforth, C. W., Tilton, E. M., Shull, J. M., Keeney, B. A., Stevans, M., Pieri, M. M., Stocke, J. T., Savage, B. D., France, K., Syphers, D., Smith, B. D., Green, J. C., Froning, C., Penton, S. V., and Osterman, S. N., 2016, ApJ, 817, 111.
The First Population II Stars Formed in Externally Enriched Mini-halos [ADS], Smith B., Wise J., O'Shea B., Norman M., and Khochfar S., 2015, MNRAS, 452, 2822.
Bringing Simulation and Observation Together to Better Understand the Intergalactic Medium [ADS], Egan, H., Smith, B. D., O'Shea, B. W., and Shull, J. M., 2014, ApJ, 791, 64.
The Birth of a Galaxy - III. Propelling reionisation with the faintest galaxies [ADS], Wise, J. H., Demchenko, V. G., Halicek, M. T., Norman, M. L., Turk, M. J., Abel, T., and Smith, B. D., 2014, MNRAS, 442, 2560.
ENZO: An Adaptive Mesh Refinement Code for Astrophysics [ADS], Bryan, G. L., Norman, M. L., O'Shea, B. W., Abel, T., Wise, J. H., Turk, M. J., Reynolds, D. R., Collins, D. C., Wang, P., Skillman, S. W., Smith, B., Harkness, R. P., Bordner, J., Kim, J.-h., Kuhlen, M., Xu, H., Goldbaum, N., Hummels, C., Kritsuk, A. G., Tasker, E., Skory, S., Simpson, C. M., Hahn, O., Oishi, J. S., So, G. C., Zhao, F., Cen, R., Li, Y., and The Enzo Collaboration, 2014, ApJS, 211, 19.
Fragmentation in Dusty Low-metallicity Star-forming Halos [ADS], Meece, G. R., Smith, B. D., and O'Shea, B. W., 2014, ApJ, 783, 75.
The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project [ADS], Kim, J.-h., Abel, T., Agertz, O., Bryan, G. L., Ceverino, D., Christensen, C., Conroy, C., Dekel, A., Gnedin, N. Y., Goldbaum, N. J., Guedes, J., Hahn, O., Hobbs, A., Hopkins, P. F., Hummels, C. B., Iannuzzi, F., Keres, D., Klypin, A., Kravtsov, A. V., Krumholz, M. R., Kuhlen, M., Leitner, S. N., Madau, P., Mayer, L., Moody, C. E., Nagamine, K., Norman, M. L., Onorbe, J., O'Shea, B. W., Pillepich, A., Primack, J. R., Quinn, T., Read, J. I., Robertson, B. E., Rocha, M., Rudd, D. H., Shen, S., Smith, B. D., Szalay, A. S., Teyssier, R., Thompson, R., Todoroki, K., Turk, M. J., Wadsley, J. W., Wise, J. H., Zolotov, A., for the AGORA Collaboration, 2014, ApJS, 210, 14.
Cosmological Simulations of Isotropic Conduction in Galaxy Clusters [ADS], Smith, B., O'Shea, B. W., Voit, G. M., Ventimiglia, D., and Skillman, S. W., 2013, ApJ, 778, 152.
Population III Star Formation in Large Cosmological Volumes. I. Halo Temporal and Physical Environment [ADS], Crosby, B. D., O'Shea, B. W., Smith, B. D., Turk, M. J., and Hahn, O., 2013, ApJ, 773, 108.
The effect of feedback and reionization on star formation in low-mass dwarf galaxy haloes [ADS], Simpson, C. M., Bryan, G. L., Johnston, K. V., Smith, B. D., Mac Low, M.-M., Sharma, S., and Tumlinson, J., 2013, MNRAS, 432, 1989.
Constraints on hydrodynamical subgrid models from quasar absorption line studies of the simulated circumgalactic medium [ADS], Hummels, C. B., Bryan, G. L., Smith, B. D., and Turk, M. J., 2013, MNRAS, 430, 1548.
On the Road to More Realistic Galaxy Cluster Simulations: The Effects of Radiative Cooling and Thermal Feedback Prescriptions on the Observational Properties of Simulated Galaxy Clusters [ADS], Skory, S., Hallman, E., Burns, J. O., Skillman, S. W., O'Shea, B. W., and Smith, B. D., 2013, ApJ, 763, 38.
The birth of a galaxy - II. The role of radiation pressure [ADS], Wise, J. H., Abel, T., Turk, M. J., Norman, M. L., and Smith, B. D., 2012, MNRAS, 427, 311.
The Baryon Census in a Multiphase Intergalactic Medium: 30% of the Baryons May Still be Missing [ADS], Shull, J. M., Smith, B. D., and Danforth, C. W., 2012, ApJ, 759, 23.
Dwarf Galaxy Formation with H2-regulated Star Formation [ADS], Kuhlen, M., Krumholz, M. R., Madau, P., Smith, B. D., and Wise, J., 2012, ApJ, 749, 36.
Critical Star Formation Rates for Reionization: Full Reionization Occurs at Redshift z ~ 7 [ADS], Shull, J. M., Harness, A., Trenti, M., and Smith, B. D., 2012, ApJ, 747, 100.
Numerical Simulations of Supernova Dust Destruction. II. Metal-enriched Ejecta Knots [ADS], Silvia, D. W., Smith, B. D., and Shull, J. M., 2012, ApJ, 748, 12.
He II Ly-beta Gunn-Peterson Absorption: New HST Observations and Theoretical Expectations [ADS], Syphers, D., Anderson, S. F., Zheng, W., Smith, B., Pieri, M., Kriss, G. A., Meiksin, A., Schneider, D. P., Shull, J. M., and York, D. G., 2011, ApJ, 742, 99.
Galaxy Cluster Radio Relics in Adaptive Mesh Refinement Cosmological Simulations: Relic Properties and Scaling Relationships [ADS], Skillman, S. W., Hallman, E. J., O'Shea, B. W., Burns, J. O., Smith, B. D., and Turk, M. J., 2011, ApJ, 735, 96.
The Nature of the Warm/Hot Intergalactic Medium. I. Numerical Methods, Convergence, and O VI Absorption [ADS], Smith, B. D., Hallman, E. J., Shull, J. M., and O'Shea, B. W., 2011, ApJ, 731, 6.
yt: A Multi-code Analysis Toolkit for Astrophysical Simulation Data [ADS], Turk, M. J., Smith, B. D., Oishi, J. S., Skory, S., Skillman, S. W., Abel, T., and Norman, M. L., 2011, ApJS, 192, 9.
The Properties of X-ray Cold Fronts in a Statistical Sample of Simulated Galaxy Clusters [ADS], Hallman, E. J., Skillman, S. W., Jeltema, T. E., Smith, B. D., O'Shea, B. W., Burns, J. O., and Norman, M. L., 2010, ApJ, 725, 1053.
HST/COS Observations of the Quasar HE 2347-4342: Probing the Epoch of He II Patchy Reionization at Redshifts z = 2.4-2.9 [ADS], Shull, J. M., France, K., Danforth, C. W., Smith, B., and Tumlinson, J., 2010, ApJ, 722, 1312.
Numerical Simulations of Supernova Dust Destruction. I. Cloud-crushing and Post-processed Grain Sputtering [ADS], Silvia, D. W., Smith, B. D., and Shull, J. M., 2010, ApJ, 715, 1575.
How Well do Cosmological Simulations Reproduce Individual Halo Properties? [ADS], Trenti, M., Smith, B. D., Hallman, E. J., Skillman, S. W., and Shull, J. M., 2010, ApJ, 711, 1198.
The Santa Fe Light Cone Simulation Project. II. The Prospects for Direct Detection of the Whim with SZE Surveys [ADS], Hallman, E. J., O'Shea, B. W., Smith, B. D., Burns, J. O., and Norman, M. L., 2009, ApJ, 698, 1795.
The effect of photoionization on the cooling rates of enriched, astrophysical plasmas [ADS], Wiersma, R. P. C., Schaye, J., and Smith, B. D., 2009, MNRAS, 393, 99.
Three Modes of Metal-Enriched Star Formation in the Early Universe [ADS], Smith, B. D., Turk, M. J., Sigurdsson, S., O'Shea, B. W., and Norman, M. L., 2009, ApJ, 691, 441.
Metal cooling in simulations of cosmic structure formation [ADS], Smith, B., Sigurdsson, S., and Abel, T., 2008, MNRAS, 385, 1443.
Modeling of Emission Signatures of Massive Black Hole Binaries. I. Methods [ADS], Bogdanovic, T., Smith, B. D., Sigurdsson, S., and Eracleous, M., 2008, ApJS, 174, 455.
The Transition from the First Stars to the Second Stars in the Early Universe [ADS], Smith, B. D., and Sigurdsson, S., 2007, ApJL, 661, 5.
1/f Noise and Hot Electron Effects in Variable Range Hopping Conduction [ADS], McCammon, D., Galeazzi, M., Liu, D., Sanders, W. T., Smith, B., Tan, P., Boyce, K. R., Brekosky, R., Gygax, J. D., Kelley, R., Mott, D. B., Porter, F. S., Stahle, C. K., Stahle, C. M., and Szymkowiak, A. E., 2002, Physica Status Solidi B Basic Research, 230, 197.
Analyzing Star Formation Feedback Mechanisms in Cosmological Simulations [ADS], Fush, S.T., O'Shea, B.W., Silvia, D.W., Smith, B.D., Wise, J.H., 2022, Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, 6, 38.