First Light in the Renaissance Simulations: Formation of the Very First Galaxies in the Universe

PI B. W. O'Shea (MSU), co-PI M. L. Norman (UCSD). NSF OCI-0832662

GRANT: NSF grants AST-1109243, AST-1211626, AST-1333360, and ACI-0832662. Also ACI-1514580

DATA SIZE: 7.8 TB (around 160 GB per timestep)

DATA RESOLUTION: 12 AMR levels

SPATIAL SCALE: 3.1 megaparsec box, finest scale 1.5 parsecs

TIME SCALE: from very early universe (near Big Bang) to about redshift 11.8 (384 million years after the Big Bang, call it 400 million) - 70 timesteps, about 4 million years per timestep