The evolution of the intergalactic medium

M McQuinn - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016‏ - annualreviews.org
The bulk of cosmic matter resides in a dilute reservoir that fills the space between galaxies,
the intergalactic medium (IGM). The history of this reservoir is intimately tied to the cosmic …

Galaxies in the first billion years after the big bang

DP Stark - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016‏ - annualreviews.org
In the past five years, deep imaging campaigns conducted with the Hubble Space
Telescope (HST) and ground-based observatories have delivered large samples of galaxies …

Metal-poor star formation at z > 6 with JWST: new insight into hard radiation fields and nitrogen enrichment on 20 pc scales

MW Top**, DP Stark, P Senchyna… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
Nearly a decade ago, we began to see indications that reionization-era galaxies power hard
radiation fields rarely seen at lower redshift. Most striking were detections of nebular C iv …

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 …

Reionization era bright emission line survey: selection and characterization of luminous interstellar medium reservoirs in the z> 6.5 universe

RJ Bouwens, R Smit, S Schouws… - The Astrophysical …, 2022‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Reionization Era Bright Emission Line Survey (REBELS) is a cycle-7 ALMA
Large Program (LP) that is identifying and performing a first characterization of many of the …

Lyα Emission at z= 7–13: Clear Evolution of Lyα Equivalent Width Indicating a Late Cosmic Reionization History

M Nakane, M Ouchi, K Nakajima… - The Astrophysical …, 2024‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We present the evolution of Lyα emission derived from 53 galaxies at z= 6.6–13.2, which
have been identified by multiple JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy programs of Early Release …

First results from hera phase i: Upper limits on the epoch of reionization 21 cm power spectrum

Z Abdurashidova, JE Aguirre, P Alexander… - The Astrophysical …, 2022‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We report upper limits on the Epoch of Reionization 21 cm power spectrum at redshifts 7.9
and 10.4 with 18 nights of data (∼ 36 hr of integration) from Phase I of the Hydrogen Epoch …

Peering into cosmic reionization: Lyα visibility evolution from galaxies at z= 4.5–8.5 with JWST

L Napolitano, L Pentericci, P Santini, A Calabrò… - Astronomy & …, 2024‏ - aanda.org
The resonant scattering interaction between Lyα photons and neutral hydrogen implies that
a partially neutral intergalactic medium has the ability to significantly impact the detectability …

A remarkably luminous galaxy at z= 11.1 measured with Hubble Space Telescope grism spectroscopy

PA Oesch, G Brammer, PG Van Dokkum… - The Astrophysical …, 2016‏ - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT We present Hubble WFC3/IR slitless grism spectra of a remarkably bright z≳ 10
galaxy candidate, GN-z11, identified initially from CANDELS/GOODS-N imaging data. A …

JADES: The emergence and evolution of Lyα emission and constraints on the intergalactic medium neutral fraction

GC Jones, AJ Bunker, A Saxena, J Witstok… - Astronomy & …, 2024‏ - aanda.org
The rest-frame UV recombination emission line Lyα can be powered by ionising photons
from young massive stars in star-forming galaxies, but the fact that it can be resonantly …