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Mining for Metals in the Lyman Alpha Forest
Sara L. Ellison, Antoinette Songaila, Joop Schaye +1
In order to ascertain the extent of metal enrichment in the Ly alpha forest, we have analysed a very high S/N spectrum of the z = 3.625 QSO Q1422+231. We find that in high column d…
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Constraining reionization using the thermal history of the baryons
Joop Schaye, Tom Theuns, Michael Rauch +2
The thermal evolution of the intergalactic medium (IGM) depends on the reionization history of the universe. Numerical simulations indicate that the low density IGM, which is respo…