Measurements of the $z>5$ Lyman-$\alpha$ 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-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest flux auto-correlation function has been shown to be sensitive to the mean free path of hydrogen-ionizing photons, ${\lambda }_{\text{mfp}}$, for simul…