Search Results - "Bosman, Sarah"
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Reionization and galaxy inference from the high-redshift Ly α forest
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-09-2021)“…ABSTRACT The transmission of Lyman α (Ly α) in the spectra of distant quasars depends on the density, temperature, and ionization state of the intergalactic…”
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New constraints on Lyman-α opacity with a sample of 62 quasars at z > 5.7
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Hydrogen reionization ends by z = 5.3: Lyman-α optical depth measured by the XQR-30 sample
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (07-06-2022)“…ABSTRACT The presence of excess scatter in the Ly-α forest at z ∼ 5.5, together with the existence of sporadic extended opaque Gunn-Peterson troughs, has…”
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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
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters (01-05-2019)“…Abstract High-redshift quasi-stellar object (QSO) spectra show large spatial fluctuations in the Ly α opacity of the intergalactic medium on surprisingly large…”
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Lyman-α transmission properties of the intergalactic medium in the CoDaII simulation
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-12-2021)“…ABSTRACT The decline in abundance of Lyman-α (Lyα) emitting galaxies at z ≳ 6 is a powerful and commonly used probe to constrain the progress of cosmic…”
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New constraints on quasar evolution: broad-line velocity shifts over 1.5 ≲ z ≲ 7.5
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-08-2019)“…ABSTRACT We present the results of a model-independent investigation of the rest-frame UV spectra from a comprehensive sample of 394 quasars in the redshift…”
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A comparison of quasar emission reconstruction techniques for z ≥ 5.0 Lyman α and Lyman β transmission
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-05-2021)“…ABSTRACT Reconstruction techniques for intrinsic quasar continua are crucial for the precision study of Lyman α (Ly α) and Lyman β (Ly β) transmission at z >…”
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Studying the Lyman α optical depth fluctuations at z ∼ 5.5 using fast semi-numerical methods
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-03-2021)“…ABSTRACT We present a computationally efficient and fast semi-numerical technique for simulating the Lyman α (Ly α) absorption optical depth in presence of…”
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The Fraction and Kinematics of Broad Absorption Line Quasars across Cosmic Time
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-07-2023)“…Abstract Luminous quasars are powerful targets to investigate the role of feedback from supermassive black holes (BHs) in regulating the growth phases of BHs…”
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Detection of stellar light from quasar host galaxies at redshifts above 6
Published in Nature (London) (07-09-2023)“…The detection of starlight from the host galaxies of quasars during the reionization epoch ( z > 6) has been elusive, even with deep Hubble Space Telescope…”
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Constraining IGM enrichment and metallicity with the C iv forest correlation function
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (08-08-2022)“…ABSTRACT The distribution and abundance of metals in the diffuse intergalactic medium (IGM) have implications for galaxy formation and evolution models, and…”
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Measuring the Density Fields around Bright Quasars at z ∼ 6 with XQR-30 Spectra
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-05-2022)“…Abstract Measuring the density of the intergalactic medium using quasar sight lines in the epoch of reionization is challenging due to the saturation of Ly α…”
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Three Lyα Emitting Galaxies within a Quasar Proximity Zone at z ∼ 5.8
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-06-2020)“…Abstract Quasar proximity zones at correspond to overdense and overionized environments. Galaxies found inside proximity zones can therefore display features…”
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The X–shooter/ALMA Sample of Quasars in the Epoch of Reionization. II. Black Hole Masses, Eddington Ratios, and the Formation of the First Quasars
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-12-2022)“…Abstract We present measurements of black hole masses and Eddington ratios ( λ Edd ) for a sample of 38 bright ( M 1450 < −24.4 mag) quasars at 5.8 ≲ z ≲ 7.5,…”
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Reionization history constraints from neural network based predictions of high-redshift quasar continua
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-04-2020)“…ABSTRACT Observations of the early Universe suggest that reionization was complete by z ∼ 6, however, the exact history of this process is still unknown. One…”
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Re-examining the case for neutral gas near the redshift 7 quasar ULAS J1120+0641
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-09-2015)“…Signs of damping-wing absorption attenuating the Lyman α emission line of the first known z ∼ 7 quasar, ULAS J1120+0641, recently provided exciting evidence of…”
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Measuring the photoionization rate, neutral fraction, and mean free path of H i ionizing photons at 4.9 ≤ z ≤ 6.0 from a large sample of XShooter and ESI spectra
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-09-2023)“…ABSTRACT We measure the mean free path ($\lambda _{\rm mfp,H\, \small {I}}$), photoionization rate ($\langle \Gamma _{\rm H\, \small {I}} \rangle$), and…”
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Chasing the Tail of Cosmic Reionization with Dark Gap Statistics in the Lyα Forest over 5 < z < 6
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-12-2021)“…Abstract We present a new investigation of the intergalactic medium (IGM) near the end of reionization using “dark gaps” in the Ly α forest. Using spectra of…”
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When Spectral Modeling Meets Convolutional Networks: A Method for Discovering Reionization-era Lensed Quasars in Multiband Imaging Data
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-02-2023)“…Abstract Over the last two decades, around 300 quasars have been discovered at z ≳ 6, yet only one has been identified as being strongly gravitationally…”
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