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most citedDamping Wing-Like Features in the Stacked Ly Forest: Potential Neutral Hydrogen Islands at

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astro-ph.GA2026

Nearly pristine gas in a galaxy 1 billion years after the Big Bang

Sarah E. I. Bosman, Frederick B. Davies, Louise Welsh +22

Excitation of carbon and oxygen ions is the primary mechanism by which collapsing gas clouds dissipate heat to form new stars. At early cosmic times, in galaxies with chemically pr…

astro-ph.GA2026

Exploring the influence of reionisation-era galaxies on their local intergalactic medium using the Sherwood-Relics simulations

Hamish Anderson, Laura C. Keating, Luke Conaboy +3

Recent surveys have detected excess flux in the Lyman- forest of quasar spectra several Mpc from high-redshift line-emitting galaxies, indicating a correlation between intergala…

astro-ph.CO2026

Forecast for the detectability of patchy hydrogen reionization in WEAVE-QSO measurements of the Lyman- forest power spectrum at redshift

Ke Ma, James S. Bolton, Vid Iršič +9

We present the first detailed forecasts for the detectability of patchy hydrogen reionization in the one-dimensional Ly forest power spectrum to be measured by the WEAVE-QSO sur…

astro-ph.CO2026

Ringing of the Reionization: A first direct measurement of the intergalactic pressure smoothing scale at redshift z>4.2 as imprinted onto small-scale peculiar velocities in the Lyman-alpha forest

Vid Iršič, Matteo Viel, Martin G. Haehnelt +3

The epoch of reionization leaves detectable imprints in the thermal history of the Universe. In particular, the fast ionization fronts passing over cold gas in the cosmic web overp…

astro-ph.CO2026

Forest without Trees is still Fruitful: Constraints on the thermal state of the neutral IGM at with the 21-cm forest power spectrum

Tomáš Šoltinský, Arnab Chakraborty, Girish Kulkarni +10

Neutral regions of the intergalactic medium (IGM) during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) remain largely unexplored due to the limitations of existing probes. Owing to discoveries o…

astro-ph.CO2026

The impact of source and survey modelling on the connection between [O III] emitters and Ly forest transmission at z ~ 6

Luke Conaboy, James S. Bolton, Laura C. Keating +3

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) surveys of [O III]-emitting galaxies are offering fresh insight into the connection between galaxies and the intergalactic medium at redshift z ~…

astro-ph.CO2026

Post-inflationary axion constraints from the Lyman- forest

Olga Garcia-Gallego, Vid Iršič, Matteo Viel +2

Among the most compelling cold dark matter candidates, the axion has recently been subject to a wide range of astrophysical studies aiming to constraints its properties. We present…

astro-ph.CO2026

TORRCH: Tomographic reconstruction of the reionization of cosmic hydrogen with Ly emitters and non-Ly-selected galaxies

Soumak Maitra, Girish Kulkarni, Vipul Arora +5

Tomographic reconstruction of reionization is a long-sought goal. It would move the field beyond global summary statistics, such as the volume-averaged ionised fraction, to direct,…

astro-ph.CO2025

The cosmic web's Lyman- glow at ; hydrodynamic models, dust, and wide-field, narrow-band detection

Oleksii Sokoliuk, John K. Webb, Kenneth M. Lanzetta +12

The diffuse Lyman- glow of the cosmic web has long been predicted but has so far eluded direct detection over cosmologically significant volumes. We construct synthetic Lyman-$α…

astro-ph.CO2025

Constraints on the Thomson optical depth to the CMB from the Lyman- forest

Olga Garcia-Gallego, Vid Iršič, Martin G. Haehnelt +1

We present the first constraints on the electron optical depth to reionization, , from the Lyman- forest alone for physically motivated reionization models that…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

An improved model for the effect of correlated Si-III absorption on the one-dimensional Lyman- forest power spectrum

Ke Ma, James S. Bolton, Vid Irsic +2

We present an analysis of Si III absorption and its effect on the 1D Ly forest power spectrum using the Sherwood-Relics hydrodynamical simulation suite. In addition to oscillati…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

The Lyman- emitter bispectrum as a probe of reionization morphology

Soumak Maitra, Girish Kulkarni, Shikhar Asthana +3

Ly emitters (LAEs) have now been discovered out to redshift , and are valuable probes of the reionization history at redshifts beyond the reach of other currently availabl…

astro-ph.CO2025

How probable is the Lyman- damping wing in the spectrum of the redshift z = 5.9896 quasar ULAS J0148+0600?

Fiona Sawyer, James S. Bolton, George D. Becker +5

The shape of the Ly- transmission in the near zone of the redshift quasar ULAS J01480600 (hereafter J0148) is consistent with a damping wing arising from an extend…

astro-ph.CO2025

The connection between high-redshift galaxies and Lyman transmission in the Sherwood-Relics simulations of patchy reionisation

Luke Conaboy, James S. Bolton, Laura C. Keating +3

Recent work has suggested that, during reionisation, spatial variations in the ionising radiation field should produce enhanced Ly forest transmission at distances of tens of c…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 5 cited

Prospects of a statistical detection of the 21-cm forest and its potential to constrain the thermal state of the neutral IGM during reionization

Tomáš Šoltinský, Girish Kulkarni, Shriharsh P. Tendulkar +1

The 21-cm forest signal is a promising probe of the Epoch of Reionization complementary to other 21-cm line observables and Ly forest signal. Prospects of detecting it have sign…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 52 cited

Damping Wing-Like Features in the Stacked Ly Forest: Potential Neutral Hydrogen Islands at

Yongda Zhu, George D. Becker, Sarah E. I. Bosman +28

Recent quasar absorption line observations suggest that reionization may end as late as . As a means to search for large neutral hydrogen islands at , we revisi…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 3 cited

Damping wing absorption associated with a giant Ly trough at : direct evidence for late-ending reionization

George D. Becker, James S. Bolton, Yongda Zhu +1

Multiple observations now suggest that the hydrogen reionization may have ended well below redshift six. While there has previously been no conclusive proof of extended neutral isl…