activity
20242026
collaborators

7 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Forest without Trees is still Fruitful: Constraints on the thermal state of the neutral IGM at with the 21-cm forest power spectrum

Tomáš Šoltinský, Arnab Chakraborty, Girish Kulkarni +10

Neutral regions of the intergalactic medium (IGM) during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) remain largely unexplored due to the limitations of existing probes. Owing to discoveries o…

astro-ph.GA2026

Connecting CGM enrichment with Lyman alpha emitters at 2.9 < z < 6.7

A. M. Sebastian, E. Ryan-Weber, R. L. Davies +2

We present the results of a blind search for Lyman emitters (LAEs) in three deep archival quasar fields from VLT/MUSE using state-of-the-art detection algorithms. We…

astro-ph.GA2026

E-XQR-30: Evidence for an Increase in the Ionization State of Metal Absorbers from z~6 to z~2

Stephanie Rowlands, R. L. Davies, E. Ryan-Weber +15

We investigate the evolution of the ionization state of metal-enriched gas in and around galaxies near the epoch of reionization using a sample of 488 metal absorption systems at 4…

astro-ph.CO2025

Updated dark pixel fraction constraints on reionization's end from the Lyman-series forests of XQR-30

Frederick B. Davies, Sarah E. I. Bosman, Valentina D'Odorico +16

The fraction of "dark pixels" in the Ly and other Lyman-series forests at provides a powerful constraint on the end of the reionization process. Any spectral region…

astro-ph.GA2025

The clustering of C IV and Si IV at the end of reionisation: A perspective from the E-XQR-30 survey

Louise Welsh, Valentina D'Odorico, Fabio Fontanot +14

We aim to study the clustering of metal absorption lines and the structures that they arise in as a function of cosmic time. We focus on C IV and Si IV absorption features that are…

astro-ph.GA2025

An extremely metal-poor Lyman emitter candidate at revealed through absorption spectroscopy

Dominika Ďurovčíková, Anna-Christina Eilers, Robert A. Simcoe +10

We report the discovery of a Lyman emitter (LAE) candidate in the immediate foreground of the quasar PSO J158-14 at at a projected distance $\sim29\ {\rm…