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Project ThaiPASS: international outreach blending astronomy and Python (2021)
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Keegans, J. D., Stancliffe, R. J., Bilton, L. E., Cashmore, C. R., Gibson, B. K., Kristensen, M. T., …Chongchitnan, S. (2021). Project ThaiPASS: international outreach blending astronomy and Python. Physics Education, 56(3), Article 035001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6552/abdae7

We present our outreach program, the Thailand–UK Python+Astronomy Summer School (ThaiPASS), a collaborative project comprising UK and Thai institutions and assess its impact and possible application to schools in the United Kingdom. Since its incepti... Read More about Project ThaiPASS: international outreach blending astronomy and Python.

Primordial Gravitational Waves and Reheating in a New Class of Plateau-Like Inflationary Potentials (2018)
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Chongchitnan, S. (2018). Primordial Gravitational Waves and Reheating in a New Class of Plateau-Like Inflationary Potentials. Universe, 4(7), Article 77. https://doi.org/10.3390/universe4070077

We study a new class of inflation model parametrized by the Hubble radius, such that aH∝exp(−αφ)n. These potentials are plateau-like, and reduce to the power-law potentials in the simplest case n=2. We investigate the range of model parameters that i... Read More about Primordial Gravitational Waves and Reheating in a New Class of Plateau-Like Inflationary Potentials.

On the abundance of extreme voids II : a survey of void mass functions (2017)
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Chongchitnan, S., & Hunt, M. (2017). On the abundance of extreme voids II : a survey of void mass functions. Journal of cosmology and astroparticle physics, 2017(03), Article 049. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2017/03/049

The abundance of cosmic voids can be described by an analogue of halo mass functions for galaxy clusters. In this work, we explore a number of void mass functions: from those based on excursion-set theory to new mass functions obtained by modifying h... Read More about On the abundance of extreme voids II : a survey of void mass functions.

Inflation model building with an accurate measure of e-folding (2016)
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Chongchitnan, S. (2016). Inflation model building with an accurate measure of e-folding. Physical Review D, 94(4), Article 043526. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.043526

It has become standard practice to take the logarithmic growth of the scale factor as a measure of the amount of inflation, despite the well-known fact that this is only an approximation for the true amount of inflation required to solve the horizon... Read More about Inflation model building with an accurate measure of e-folding.

On the abundance of extreme voids (2015)
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Chongchitnan, S. (2015). On the abundance of extreme voids. Journal of cosmology and astroparticle physics, May(05), 062-062. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2015/05/062

Cosmic voids have been shown to be an effective probe of cosmology, complementary to galaxy clusters. In this work, we present a simple theoretical framework for predicting of the size of the largest voids expected within a given redshift and volume.... Read More about On the abundance of extreme voids.

The Lyman α forest as a tool for disentangling non-Gaussianities (2014)
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Chongchitnan, S. (2014). The Lyman α forest as a tool for disentangling non-Gaussianities. Journal of cosmology and astroparticle physics, 2014(10), Article ARTN 034. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2014/10/034

© 2014 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl . Detection of primordial non-Gaussianity will give us an unprecedented detail of the physics of inflation. As observational probes are now exploring new expanses of the inflationary landscape, it is c... Read More about The Lyman α forest as a tool for disentangling non-Gaussianities.

Constraining isocurvature perturbations with the 21 cm emission from minihaloes (2014)
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Takeuchi, Y., & Chongchitnan, S. (2014). Constraining isocurvature perturbations with the 21 cm emission from minihaloes. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 439(1), 1125-1135. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu059

We investigate the effects of isocurvature perturbations on the 21 cm radiation from minihaloes (MHs) at high redshifts and examine constraints on the isocurvature amplitude and power spectrum using the next generation of radio telescopes such as the... Read More about Constraining isocurvature perturbations with the 21 cm emission from minihaloes.

The effect of cosmic magnetic fields on the metagalactic ionization background inferred from the Lyman α forest (2013)
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Chongchitnan, S., & Meiksin, A. (2014). The effect of cosmic magnetic fields on the metagalactic ionization background inferred from the Lyman α forest. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 437(4), 3639-3646. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2169

The sources which reionized the intergalactic medium by redshift ̃6 are still unknown. A severe constraint on the ionization process is the low emissivity required to maintain the ionization in the Lya forest. Simulation-calibrated observations sugge... Read More about The effect of cosmic magnetic fields on the metagalactic ionization background inferred from the Lyman α forest.