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The Evolution of the Intergalactic Medium
Matthew McQuinn
The bulk of cosmic matter resides in a dilute reservoir that fills the space between galaxies, the intergalactic medium (IGM). The history of this reservoir is intimately tied to t…
Models of the Thermal Evolution of the Intergalactic Medium After Reionization
Phoebe R. Upton Sanderbeck, Anson D'Aloisio, Matthew J. McQuinn
Recent years have brought more precise temperature measurements of the low-density intergalactic medium (IGM). These new measurements constrain the processes that heated the IGM, s…
He II Proximity Effect and the Lifetime of Quasars
I. S. Khrykin, J. F. Hennawi, M. McQuinn +1
The lifetime of quasars is fundamental for understanding the growth of supermassive black holes, and is an important ingredient in models of the reionization of the intergalactic m…
Large Opacity Variations in the High-Redshift Lyman-alpha Forest: the Signature of Relic Temperature Fluctuations from Patchy Reionization
Anson D'Aloisio, Matthew McQuinn, Hy Trac
Recent observations of the Lyman-alpha forest show large-scale spatial variations in the intergalactic Lyman-alpha opacity that grow rapidly with redshift at z>5, far in excess of…
On the intergalactic temperature-density relation
Matthew McQuinn, Phoebe R. Upton Sanderbeck
Cosmological simulations of the low-density intergalactic medium exhibit a strikingly tight power-law relation between temperature and density that holds over two decades in densit…
PAPER-64 Constraints On Reionization II: The Temperature Of The z=8.4 Intergalactic Medium
Jonathan C. Pober, Zaki S. Ali, Aaron R. Parsons +24
We present constraints on both the kinetic temperature of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at z=8.4, and on models for heating the IGM at high-redshift with X-ray emission from the f…