Neural network emulator to constrain the high-$z$ IGM thermal state from Lyman-$\alpha$ forest flux auto-correlation function

Zhenyu Jin, Molly Wolfson, Joseph F. Hennawi +1

We present a neural network emulator to constrain the thermal parameters of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at $5.4\le z\le 6.0$ using the Lyman-$\alpha$ (L…