Publications

The full publications gallery related to the Synthesizer project is available below, ordered by date with the most recent publications first. A single ADS library of the papers can be found here. You can also find the technical and application publications from the Synthesizer project there.

Hunting the first cosmic giants: formation and detectability of direct collapse black holes around high-redshift quasars Authors: Trinca, Alessandro, Lupi, Alessandro, Haiman, Zoltán, Volonteri, Marta, Valiante, Rosa and others September 2026, MNRAS [ADS] | [arXiv]

First Light and Assembly of GalaxieS (FLAGS) I: The JWST/NIRCam Number Counts and IGL as Constraints on Galaxy Formation Models Authors: Turner, Jack C., Wilkins, Stephen M., Vijayan, Aswin P. August 2026, Preprint [ADS] | [arXiv]

The Cosmic Rush Hour: Rapid formation of bright, massive, disky, star-forming galaxies as signatures of early-universe physics Authors: Shen, Xuejian, Zier, Oliver, Vogelsberger, Mark, Boylan-Kolchin, Michael, Hernquist, Lars and others August 2026, MNRAS [ADS] | [arXiv]

Stellar photoionisation modelling in SYNTHESIZER Authors: Vijayan, Aswin P., Wilkins, Stephen M., Newman, Sophie L., Lovell, Christopher C., Roper, William J. and others July 2026, Preprint [ADS] | [arXiv]

AGN-driven outflows in dwarf galaxies from cosmological simulations: Internal properties and observational signatures Authors: Arjona-Gálvez, Elena, Di Cintio, Arianna, Grand, Robert J.~J., Sales, Laura V., Canalizo, Gabriela and others June 2026, Preprint [ADS] | [arXiv]

A Pixel-by-Pixel Path to Population III Discovery with JWST Authors: Iglesias-Navarro, Patricia, Harvey, Thomas, Huertas-Company, Marc, Lovell, Christopher C., Knapen, Johan H. and others June 2026, Preprint [ADS] | [arXiv]

The nature of high-redshift massive quiescent galaxies ─ searching for RUBIES-UDS-QG-z7 in FLARES Authors: Turner, Jack C., Roper, Will J., Vijayan, Aswin P., Newman, Sophie L., Wilkins, Stephen M. and others March 2026, MNRAS [ADS] | [arXiv]

Synthesizer: Synthetic Observables for Modern Astronomy Authors: Roper, Will, Lovell, Christopher, Vijayan, Aswin, Wilkins, Stephen, Akins, Hollis and others March 2026, The Journal of Open Source Software [ADS] | [arXiv]

Flexible simulation-based inference for galaxy photometric fitting with synthesizer Authors: Harvey, Thomas, Lovell, Christopher C., Newman, Sophie, Conselice, Christopher J., Austin, Duncan and others March 2026, MNRAS [ADS] | [arXiv]

Interpreting nebular emission lines in the high-redshift Universe Authors: Payyoor Vijayan, Aswin, Yates, Robert M., Lovell, Christopher C., Roper, William J., Wilkins, Stephen M. and others February 2026, OJA [ADS] | [arXiv]

Little Red Dots and Their Progenitors from Direct Collapse Black Holes Authors: Jeon, Junehyoung, Liu, Boyuan, Bromm, Volker, Fujimoto, Seiji, Taylor, Anthony J. and others February 2026, ApJ [ADS] | [arXiv]

Cloudy-Maraston: integrating nebular continuum and line emission with the Maraston stellar population synthesis models Authors: Newman, Sophie L., Lovell, Christopher C., Maraston, Claudia, Roper, William J., Vijayan, Aswin P. and others January 2026, MNRAS [ADS] | [arXiv]

Resolving the ionizing photon budget crisis with JWST/NIRCam HII clumping constraints at z=6 Authors: Austin, Duncan, Harvey, Thomas, Conselice, Christopher J., Adams, Nathan J., Rusakov, Vadim and others December 2025, Preprint [ADS] | [arXiv]

Super-Eddington accretion in high-redshift quasar hosts: Black-hole-driven outflows, galaxy quenching, and the nature of little red dots Authors: Quadri, Giada, Trinca, Alessandro, Lupi, Alessandro, Colpi, Monica, Volonteri, Marta December 2025, åp [ADS] | [arXiv]

Learning the Universe: cosmological and astrophysical parameter inference with galaxy luminosity functions and colours Authors: Lovell, Christopher C., Starkenburg, Tjitske, Ho, Matthew, Anglés-Alcázar, Daniel, Davé, Romeel and others December 2025, MNRAS [ADS] | [arXiv]

Predicting the Subhalo Mass Functions in Simulations from Galaxy Images Authors: Filipp, Andreas, Nguyen, Tri, Perreault-Levasseur, Laurence, Rose, Jonah, Lovell, Chris and others October 2025, Preprint [ADS] | [arXiv]

Synthesizer: a Software Package for Synthetic Astronomical Observables Authors: Lovell, Christopher C., Roper, William J., Vijayan, Aswin P., Wilkins, Stephen M., Newman, Sophie and others October 2025, OJA [ADS] | [arXiv]

Behind the spotlight: a systematic assessment of outshining using NIRCam medium bands in the JADES Origins Field Authors: Harvey, Thomas, Conselice, Christopher J., Adams, Nathan J., Austin, Duncan, Li, Qiong and others October 2025, MNRAS [ADS] | [arXiv]

Caught in the Act: Detections of Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes from Simulations Authors: Rawlings, Alexander, Johansson, Peter H., Naab, Thorsten, Rantala, Antti, Thomas, Jens and others September 2025, ApJ [ADS] | [arXiv]

First Light and Reionization Epoch Simulations (FLARES) – XVIII: the ionising emissivities and hydrogen recombination line properties of early AGN Authors: Wilkins, Stephen M., Vijayan, Aswin P., Hagen, Scott, Caruana, Joseph, Conselice, Christopher J. and others May 2025, Preprint [ADS] | [arXiv]

The sizes of bright Lyman-break galaxies at z ≃ 3-5 with JWST PRIMER Authors: Varadaraj, R.~G., Bowler, R.~A.~A., Jarvis, M.~J., Adams, N.~J., Choustikov, N. and others September 2024, MNRAS [ADS] | [arXiv]

LtU-ILI: An All-in-One Framework for Implicit Inference in Astrophysics and Cosmology Authors: Ho, Matthew, Bartlett, Deaglan J., Chartier, Nicolas, Cuesta-Lazaro, Carolina, Ding, Simon and others July 2024, OJA [ADS] | [arXiv]

First Light and Reionization Epoch Simulations (FLARES) - XIV. The Balmer/4000 ̊A breaks of distant galaxies Authors: Wilkins, Stephen M., Lovell, Christopher C., Irodotou, Dimitrios, Vijayan, Aswin P., Vikaeus, Anton and others January 2024, MNRAS [ADS] | [arXiv]

First light and reionisation epoch simulations (FLARES) - VIII. The emergence of passive galaxies at z ensuremath≥ 5 Authors: Lovell, Christopher C., Roper, Will, Vijayan, Aswin P., Seeyave, Louise, Irodotou, Dimitrios and others November 2023, MNRAS [ADS] | [arXiv]