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Constraints on the Evolution of the Ionizing Background and Ionizing Photon Mean Free Path at the End of Reionization
Frederick B. Davies, Sarah E. I. Bosman, Prakash Gaikwad +16
The variations in Ly forest opacity observed at between lines of sight to different background quasars are too strong to be caused by fluctuations in the density field a…
Robustness of direct measurements of the mean free path of ionizing photons in the epoch of reionization
Sindhu Satyavolu, Girish Kulkarni, Laura C. Keating +1
Measurements of the mean free path of Lyman-continuum photons in the intergalactic medium during the epoch of reionization can help constrain the nature of the sources as well as s…
Particle initialization effects on Lyman- forest statistics in cosmological SPH simulations
Nabendu Kumar Khan, Girish Kulkarni, James S. Bolton +4
Confronting measurements of the Lyman- forest with cosmological hydrodynamical simulations has produced stringent constraints on models of particle dark matter and the thermal a…
Measurements of the Lyman- forest flux auto-correlation functions from the extended XQR-30 data set
Molly Wolfson, Joseph F. Hennawi, Sarah E. I. Bosman +14
Recently, the Lyman- (Ly) forest flux auto-correlation function has been shown to be sensitive to the mean free path of hydrogen-ionizing photons, , for simul…
Unveiling Dark Matter free-streaming at the smallest scales with high redshift Lyman-alpha forest
Vid Iršič, Matteo Viel, Martin G. Haehnelt +8
This study introduces novel constraints on the free-streaming of thermal relic warm dark matter (WDM) from Lyman- forest flux power spectra. Our analysis utilises a high-resolut…
Investigating the characteristic shape and scatter of intergalactic damping wings during reionization
Laura C. Keating, Ewald Puchwein, James S. Bolton +2
Ly damping wings in the spectra of bright objects at high redshift are a useful probe of the ionization state of the intergalactic medium during the reionization epoch. It has r…
JWST observations of galaxy damping wings during reionization interpreted with cosmological simulations
Laura C. Keating, James S. Bolton, Fergus Cullen +3
Spectra of the highest redshift galaxies taken with JWST are now allowing us to see into the heart of the reionization epoch. Many of these observed galaxies exhibit strong damping…
Probing Ultra-late Reionization: Direct Measurements of the Mean Free Path over
Yongda Zhu, George D. Becker, Holly M. Christenson +22
The mean free path of ionizing photons, , is a critical parameter for modeling the intergalactic medium (IGM) both during and after reionization. We present direct mea…
The 21-cm bispectrum from neutral hydrogen islands at z < 6
Janakee Raste, Girish Kulkarni, Catherine A. Watkinson +2
Spatial variations in the Lyman- forest opacity at seem to require a late end to cosmic reionization. In this picture, the universe contains neutral hydrogen 'islands' of…
New quasar proximity zone size measurements at using the enlarged XQR-30 sample
Sindhu Satyavolu, Anna-Christina Eilers, Girish Kulkarni +15
Proximity zones of high-redshift quasars are unique probes of their central supermassive black holes as well as the intergalactic medium in the last stages of reionization. We pres…
A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era (ASPIRE): JWST Reveals a Filamentary Structure around a z=6.61 Quasar
Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang, Joseph F. Hennawi +56
We present the first results from the JWST ASPIRE program (A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era). This program represents an imaging and spectroscopic sur…
A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era (ASPIRE): A First Look at the Rest-frame Optical Spectra of Quasars Using JWST
Jinyi Yang, Feige Wang, Xiaohui Fan +53
Studies of rest-frame optical emission in quasars at have historically been limited by the wavelengths accessible by ground-based telescopes. The James Webb Space Telescope (…
Measuring the photo-ionization rate, neutral fraction and mean free path of HI ionizing photons at from a large sample of XShooter and ESI spectra
Prakash Gaikwad, Martin G. Haehnelt, Frederick B. Davies +16
We measure the mean free path (), photo-ionization rate () and neutral fraction () of hydrogen in 12 redshif…