Impact of Self-shielding Minihalos on the Ly$\hat{I}\pm$ Forest at High Redshift

Hyunbae Park, Zarija Lukić, Jean Sexton +2

Dense gas in minihalos with masses of $10^6-10^8{M}_{\odot }$ can shield themselves from reionization for $\sim 100$ Myr after being exposed to the UV background. These self-shielded sy…