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cs.CV2023

A Lightweight Recurrent Grouping Attention Network for Video Super-Resolution

Yonggui Zhu, Guofang Li

Effective aggregation of temporal information of consecutive frames is the core of achieving video super-resolution. Many scholars have utilized structures such as sliding windows…

astro-ph.CO2023

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…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

The relationship between IGM Lyman-alpha opacity and galaxy density near the end of reionization

Holly M. Christenson, George D. Becker, Anson D'Aloisio +6

Observed scatter in the Lyman-alpha opacity of quasar sightlines at has motivated measurements of the correlation between Ly opacity and galaxy density, as models that pre…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 2 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 5 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 25 cited

Examining the Decline in the C IV Content of the Universe over 4.3 < z < 6.3 using the E-XQR-30 Sample

Rebecca L. Davies, Emma Ryan-Weber, Valentina D'Odorico +12

Intervening CIV absorbers are key tracers of metal-enriched gas in galaxy halos over cosmic time. Previous studies suggest that the CIV cosmic mass density () decrease…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 31 cited

The fraction and kinematics of broad absorption line quasars across cosmic time

Manuela Bischetti, Fabrizio Fiore, Chiara Feruglio +17

Luminous quasars are powerful targets to investigate the role of feedback from supermassive black-holes (BHs) in regulating the growth phases of BHs themselves and of their host ga…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 14 cited

How Close Dark Matter Halos and MOND Are to Each Other: Three-Dimensional Tests Based on Gaia DR2

Yongda Zhu, Hai-Xia Ma, Xiao-Bo Dong +7

Aiming at discriminating different gravitational potential models of the Milky Way, we perform tests based on the kinematic data powered by the Gaia DR2 astrometry, over a large ra…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 40 cited

The XQR-30 Metal Absorber Catalog: 778 Absorption Systems Spanning 2 < z < 6.5

Rebecca L. Davies, Emma Ryan-Weber, Valentina D'Odorico +11

Intervening metal absorption lines in the spectra of z > 6 quasars are fundamental probes of the ionization state and chemical composition of circumgalactic and intergalactic gas n…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 91 cited

Long Dark Gaps in the Ly Forest at : Evidence of Ultra Late Reionization from XQR-30 Spectra

Yongda Zhu, George D. Becker, Sarah E. I. Bosman +22

We present a new investigation of the intergalactic medium (IGM) near reionization using dark gaps in the Lyman- (Ly) forest. With its lower optical depth, Ly offers a pot…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 33 cited

Chemical Abundance of z~6 Quasar Broad-Line Regions in the XQR-30 Sample

Samuel Lai, Fuyan Bian, Christopher A. Onken +17

The elemental abundances in the broad-line regions of high-redshift quasars trace the chemical evolution in the nuclear regions of massive galaxies in the early universe. In this w…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 38 cited

Constraints on the End of Reionization from the Density Fields Surrounding Two Highly Opaque Quasar Sightlines

Holly M. Christenson, George D. Becker, Steven R. Furlanetto +5

The observed large-scale scatter in Lyman opacity of the intergalactic medium at implies large fluctuations in the neutral hydrogen fraction that are unexpected long afte…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 302 cited

Hydrogen reionisation ends by : Lyman- optical depth measured by the XQR-30 sample

Sarah E. I. Bosman, Frederick B. Davies, George D. Becker +23

The presence of excess scatter in the Ly- forest at , together with the existence of sporadic extended opaque Gunn-Peterson troughs, has started to provide robust evi…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 27 cited

The LAMOST Survey of Background Quasars in the Vicinity of the Andromeda and Triangulum Galaxies -- II. Results from the Commissioning Observations and the Pilot Surveys

Zhi-Ying Huo, Xiao-Wei Liu, Mao-Sheng Xiang +68

We present new quasars discovered in the vicinity of the Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies with the LAMOST during the 2010 and 2011 observational seasons. Quasar candidates are sel…