COSMOS-Web: an overview of the JWST Cosmic Origins Survey

CM Casey, JS Kartaltepe, NE Drakos… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the survey design, implementation, and outlook for COSMOS-Web, a 255 hr
treasury program conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope in its first cycle of …

Quasars and the intergalactic medium at cosmic dawn

X Fan, E Bañados, RA Simcoe - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Quasars at cosmic dawn provide powerful probes of the formation and growth of the earliest
supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the Universe, their connections to galaxy and …

EIGER. I. A Large Sample of [O iii]-emitting Galaxies at 5.3< z< 6.9 and Direct Evidence for Local Reionization by Galaxies

D Kashino, SJ Lilly, J Matthee, AC Eilers… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
EIGER. I. A Large Sample of [O iii]-emitting Galaxies at 5.3 < z < 6.9 and Direct Evidence for
Local Reionization by Galaxies - IOPscience Skip to content IOP Science home Accessibility …

Dam** wing-like features in the stacked Ly α forest: Potential neutral hydrogen islands at z < 6

Y Zhu, GD Becker, SEI Bosman, C Cain… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
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 revisit long dark gaps in the Ly …

The mean free path of ionizing photons at 5 < z < 6: evidence for rapid evolution near reionization

GD Becker, A D'Aloisio, HM Christenson… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The mean free path of ionizing photons, λmfp, is a key factor in the photoionization of the
intergalactic medium (IGM). At z≳ 5, however, λmfp may be short enough that …

[PDF][PDF] Large Ly α opacity fluctuations and low CMB τ in models of late reionization with large islands of neutral hydrogen extending to z < 5.5

G Kulkarni, LC Keating, MG Haehnelt… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
High-redshift quasi-stellar object (QSO) spectra show large spatial fluctuations in the Ly α
opacity of the intergalactic medium on surprisingly large scales at≳ 5.5. We present a …

Inferences on the timeline of reionization at z ∼ 8 from the KMOS Lens-Amplified Spectroscopic Survey

CA Mason, A Fontana, T Treu… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Detections and non-detections of Lyman alpha (Lyα) emission from z> 6 galaxies (< 1 Gyr
after the big bang) can be used to measure the timeline of cosmic reionization. Of key …

Probing Ultralate Reionization: Direct Measurements of the Mean Free Path over 5< z< 6

Y Zhu, GD Becker, HM Christenson… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The mean free path of ionizing photons, λ mfp, is a critical parameter for modeling the
intergalactic medium (IGM) both during and after reionization. We present direct …

Evolution of the AGN UV luminosity function from redshift 7.5

G Kulkarni, G Worseck… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Determinations of the ultraviolet (UV) luminosity function of active galactic nuclei (AGN) at
high redshifts are important for constraining the AGN contribution to reionization and …

Measurements of the z∼ 6 Intergalactic Medium Optical Depth and Transmission Spikes Using a New z> 6.3 Quasar Sample

J Yang, F Wang, X Fan, JF Hennawi… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We report new measurements of the intergalactic medium (IGM) Lyα and Lyβ effective
optical depth at 5.3< z< 6.5, using a new sample of quasar sight lines including 32 quasars …