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most citedAn 800-million-solar-mass black hole in a significantly neutral Universe at redshift 7.5

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The Light Echo of a High-Redshift Quasar mapped with Lyman- Tomography

Anna-Christina Eilers, Minghao Yue, Jorryt Matthee +11

Ultra-violet (UV) radiation from accreting black holes ionizes the intergalactic gas around early quasars, carving out highly ionized bubbles in their surroundings. Any changes in…

astro-ph.CO2025

First constraints on the local ionization topology in front of two quasars at z ~ 7.5

Timo Kist, Joseph F. Hennawi, Frederick B. Davies +10

Thus far, Lyman- damping wings towards quasars have been used to probe the \textit{global} ionization state of the foreground intergalactic medium (IGM). A new parameterization…

astro-ph.CO2025

Inferring local quasar IGM damping wing constraints

Timo Kist, Joseph F. Hennawi, Frederick B. Davies

Lyman- damping wings towards quasars are a highly sensitive probe of the neutral hydrogen (HI) content in the foreground intergalactic medium (IGM), not only constraining the gl…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Quasar lifetime measurements from extended Ly nebulae at

Dominika Ďurovčíková, Anna-Christina Eilers, Romain A. Meyer +7

The existence of billion-solar-mass black holes hosted in luminous quasars within the first gigayear of cosmic history poses a challenge to our understanding of supermassive black…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

A local, topology-independent parameterization of quasar IGM damping wings

Timo Kist, Joseph F. Hennawi, Frederick B. Davies

Lyman- damping wings towards quasars provide a unique probe of reionization because their strength correlates strongly with the global volume-averaged neutral hydrogen (HI) frac…