Cosmological and astrophysical constraints from the Lyman α forest flux probability distribution function
(2009)
Journal Article
Viel, M., Bolton, J. S., & Haehnelt, M. G. (2009). Cosmological and astrophysical constraints from the Lyman α forest flux probability distribution function. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 399(1), L39–L43. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-3933.2009.00720.x
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Resolving the high redshift Lyman-alpha forest in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations (2009)
Journal Article
S. Bolton, J., & D. Becker, G. (2009). Resolving the high redshift Lyman-alpha forest in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 398(1), L26–L30. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-3933.2009.00700.xWe use a large set of cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations to examine the effect of mass resolution and box size on synthetic Lya forest spectra at 2 \leq z \leq 5. The mass resolution requirements for the convergence of the... Read More about Resolving the high redshift Lyman-alpha forest in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations.
The evolution of the Lyman-alpha forest effective optical depth following HeII reionisation (2009)
Journal Article
S. Bolton, J., Peng Oh, S., & R. Furlanetto, S. (2009). The evolution of the Lyman-alpha forest effective optical depth following HeII reionisation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 396(4), 2405–2418. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14914.xThree independent observational studies have now detected a narrow (\Delta z ~ 0.5) dip centred at z=3.2 in the otherwise smooth redshift evolution of the Lya forest effective optical depth. This feature has previously been interpreted as an indirect... Read More about The evolution of the Lyman-alpha forest effective optical depth following HeII reionisation.
Photo-heating and the fate of hard photons during the reionisation of HeII by quasars (2009)
Journal Article
S. Bolton, J., Peng Oh, S., & R. Furlanetto, S. (2009). Photo-heating and the fate of hard photons during the reionisation of HeII by quasars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 395(2), 736–752. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14597.xWe use a combination of analytic and numerical arguments to consider the impact of quasar photo-heating during HeII reionisation on the thermal evolution of the intergalactic medium (IGM). We demonstrate that rapid (\Delta z< 0.1-0.2), strong (\Delta... Read More about Photo-heating and the fate of hard photons during the reionisation of HeII by quasars.