Damping Wing-Like Features in the Stacked Ly𝛼 Forest: Potential Neutral Hydrogen Islands at 𝑧 < 6
(2024)
Journal Article
Zhu, Y., Becker, G. D., Bosman, S. E. I., Cain, C., Keating, L. C., Nasir, F., …Yang, J. (2024). Damping Wing-Like Features in the Stacked Ly𝛼 Forest: Potential Neutral Hydrogen Islands at 𝑧 < 6. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 533(1), L49–L56. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slae061
Recent quasar absorption line observations suggest that reionization may end as late as z ≈ 5.3. As a means to search for large neutral hydrogen islands at z &lt; 6, we revisit long dark gaps in the Lyβ forest in VLT/X-Shooter and Keck/ESI quasar... Read More about Damping Wing-Like Features in the Stacked Ly𝛼 Forest: Potential Neutral Hydrogen Islands at 𝑧 < 6.