Percent-level timing of reionization: self-consistent, implicit-likelihood inference from XQR-30+ Ly$\hat{I}\pm$ forest data

Yuxiang Qin, Andrei Mesinger, David Prelogović +13

The Lyman alpha (Lya) forest in the spectra of z>5 quasars provides a powerful probe of the late stages of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). With the recent advent of exquisite data…