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 …

JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy of z = 7–9 star-forming galaxies with CEERS: new insight into bright Lyα emitters in ionized bubbles

M Tang, DP Stark, Z Chen, C Mason… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We describe new JWST/NIRSpec observations of galaxies at z≳ 7 taken from the CEERS
survey. Previous observations of this area have revealed associations of Lyα emitters at …

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 …

Rapid reionization by the oligarchs: the case for massive, UV-bright, star-forming galaxies with high escape fractions

RP Naidu, S Tacchella, CA Mason, S Bose… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The protagonists of the last great phase transition of the universe—cosmic reionization—
remain elusive. Faint star-forming galaxies are leading candidates because they are found …

JADES: Discovery of extremely high equivalent width Lyman-α emission from a faint galaxy within an ionized bubble at z= 7.3

A Saxena, BE Robertson, AJ Bunker, R Endsley… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We report the discovery of a remarkable Lyα emitting galaxy at z= 7.2782, JADES-GS+
53.16746− 27.7720 (shortened to JADES-GS-z7-LA), with rest-frame equivalent width, EW 0 …

The universe is reionizing at z∼ 7: bayesian inference of the IGM neutral fraction using Lyα emission from galaxies

CA Mason, T Treu, M Dijkstra, A Mesinger… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new flexible Bayesian framework for directly inferring the fraction of neutral
hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM) during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR, z∼ 6 …

Hydrogen epoch of reionization array (HERA)

DR DeBoer, AR Parsons, JE Aguirre… - Publications of the …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) is a staged experiment to
measure 21 cm emission from the primordial intergalactic medium (IGM) throughout cosmic …

Unveiling secrets with cosmological data: Neutrino masses and mass hierarchy

S Vagnozzi, E Giusarma, O Mena, K Freese, M Gerbino… - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
Using some of the latest cosmological data sets publicly available, we derive the strongest
bounds in the literature on the sum of the three active neutrino masses, M ν, within the …

The thesan project: properties of the intergalactic medium and its connection to reionization-era galaxies

E Garaldi, R Kannan, A Smith, V Springel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The high-redshift intergalactic medium (IGM) and the primeval galaxy population are rapidly
becoming the new frontier of extragalactic astronomy. We investigate the IGM properties and …