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Constraints on Reionization from Planck Low- EE Polarization and the Lyman-Series Forests
Garett Lopez, Anson D'Aloisio, Christopher Cain
CMB measurements tightly constrain the Thomson scattering optical depth (), but they still permit a broad range of degenerate reionization histories. Incorporating Lyma…
Super-Eddington Little Blue Dots May Reionize Helium Too Early
Christopher Cain, Brent Smith, Gibson B. Bowling +5
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has identified an abundant population of faint Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) at which display broad emission lines, compact morph…
Fireworks at Cosmic Dawn: relieving BAO-CMB tensions with the Pop III.1 Flash
Yash Aggarwal, Christopher Cain, Garett Lopez +4
A Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) optical depth of , several in excess of the latest Planck low- EE polarization measurement, has been proposed as a way to…
A self-consistent analytical model for both the photoionization rate and reionization history
Christopher Cain, Kevin S. Croker, Anson D'Aloisio +4
Recent developments at the intersection of cosmology and astrophysics have highlighted the need for improved analytical models of observables that probe the Epoch of Reionization.…
Mapping quark-level kinematics to hadrons in a new hybrid model of semileptonic meson decays
Philipp Horak, Robert Kowalewski, Tommy Martinov
The need to map parton-level processes to color-neutral hadrons in a way that respects quark-hadron duality arises in several areas of physics, including in the semileptonic decays…
An emulator for the ionizing photon mean free path in ultra-high resolution simulations: the implications of mean free path measurements for the reionization history
Hurum Maksora Tohfa, Christopher Cain, Matthew McQuinn +1
Measurements of the mean free path of ionizing photons from high-redshift quasar spectra at - constrain the reionization history, but interpreting them requires modeli…
Galaxy Underdensities Host the Clearest IGM Ly Transmission and Indicate Anisotropic Reionization
Yongda Zhu, George D. Becker, Anson D'Aloisio +6
How galaxies drive reionization and what governs its geometry remain fundamental questions. We present JWST/NIRCam wide-field slitless spectroscopy (WFSS) observations toward two o…
A long time ago in an LAE far, far away: a signpost of early reionization or a nascent AGN at ?
Joshua Cohon, Christopher Cain, Rogier Windhorst +3
The JADES survey recently reported the discovery of JADES-GS-z13-1-LA at , the highest redshift Ly emitter (LAE) ever observed. This observation suggests that either the…
Probing the ionizing photon output of galaxies near cosmic dawn with the patchy kSZ effect
Garett Lopez, Anson D'Aloisio, Christopher Cain
A key result from JWST's first cycles is that galaxy formation was well underway by . The implications of these early galaxies for reionization are less clear, however. The C…
The CMB optical depth constrains the duration of reionization
Christopher Cain, Alexander Van Engelen, Kevin S. Croker +3
Recently, it was pointed out that invoking a large value of the CMB optical depth, , could help resolve tensions between DESI DR2 BAO data and the CMB. This is…
Kiloparsec-scale turbulence driven by reionization may grow intergalactic magnetic fields
Christopher Cain, Matthew McQuinn, Evan Scannapieco +2
The intergalactic medium (IGM) underwent intense heating that resulted in pressure disequilibrium in the wake of ionization fronts during cosmic reionization. The dynamical relaxat…
New constraints on the galactic ionizing efficiency and escape fraction at 2.5 < z < 6 based on quasar absorption spectra
Christopher Cain, Anson D'Aloisio, Julian B. Munoz
Measurements of the ionisation state of the intergalactic medium (IGM) can probe the sources of the extragalactic ionising background. We provide new measurements of the ionising e…
FlexRT -- A fast and flexible cosmological radiative transfer code for reionization studies I: Code validation
Christopher Cain, Anson D'Aloisio
The wealth of high-quality observational data from the epoch of reionization that will become available in the next decade motivates further development of modeling techniques for…
Chasing the beginning of reionization in the JWST era
Christopher Cain, Garett Lopez, Anson D'Aloisio +4
Recent JWST observations at may imply galactic ionizing photon production above prior expectations. Under observationally motivated assumptions about escape fractions, thes…
On the correlation between Ly forest opacity and galaxy density in late reionization models
Nakul Gangolli, Anson D'Aloisio, Christopher Cain +2
The relationship between Ly forest opacity and local galaxy density (the opacity-density relation) is a key observational test of late reionization models. Using narrow-band sur…
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…
Quantifying Lyman- emissions from reionization fronts
Bayu Wilson, Anson D'Aloisio, Christopher Cain +2
During reionization, intergalactic ionization fronts (I-fronts) are sources of Ly line radiation produced by collisional excitation of hydrogen atoms within the fronts. In princ…
The hydrodynamic response of small-scale structure to reionization drives large IGM temperature fluctuations that persist to z = 4
Christopher Cain, Evan Scannapieco, Matthew McQuinn +2
The thermal history and structure of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at is an important boundary condition for reionization, and a key input for studies using the Ly f…
On the rise and fall of galactic ionizing output at the end of reionization
Christopher Cain, Anson D'Aloisio, Garett Lopez +2
Quasar absorption spectra measurements suggest that reionization proceeded rapidly, ended late at , and was followed by a flat ionizing background evolution. Simulation…
The effect of reionization on direct measurements of the mean free path
Joshua T. Roth, Anson D'Aloisio, Christopher Cain +3
Recent measurements of the ionizing photon mean free path (MFP) based on composite quasar spectra may point to reionization ending at . These measurements are challenging beca…
The relationship between IGM Lyman-alpha opacity and galaxy density near the end of reionization
Holly M. Christenson, George D. Becker, Anson D'Aloisio +6
Observed scatter in the Lyman-alpha opacity of quasar sightlines at has motivated measurements of the correlation between Ly opacity and galaxy density, as models that pre…
Probing Ultra-late Reionization: Direct Measurements of the Mean Free Path over
Yongda Zhu, George D. Becker, Holly M. Christenson +22
The mean free path of ionizing photons, , is a critical parameter for modeling the intergalactic medium (IGM) both during and after reionization. We present direct mea…
The Morphology of Reionization in a Dynamically Clumpy Universe
Christopher Cain, Anson D'Aloisio, Nakul Gangolli +1
A recent measurement of the Lyman-limit mean free path at suggests it may have been very short, motivating a better understanding of the role that ionizing photon sinks pla…
Small-scale clumping of dark matter and the mean free path of ionizing photons at
Christopher Cain, Anson D'Aloisio, Vid Irsic +2
Recently, the mean free path of ionizing photons in the intergalactic medium (IGM) was measured to be very short, presenting a challenge to existing reionization models. At…