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| Verfasst von: | Davies, Frederick B. [VerfasserIn]  |
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| | Bosman, Sarah [VerfasserIn] |
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| | Gaikwad, Prakash [VerfasserIn] |
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| | Nasir, Fahad [VerfasserIn] |
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| | Hennawi, Joseph F. [VerfasserIn] |
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| | Becker, George D. [VerfasserIn] |
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| | Haehnelt, Martin G. [VerfasserIn] |
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| | D’Odorico, Valentina [VerfasserIn] |
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| | Bischetti, Manuela [VerfasserIn] |
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| | Eilers, Anna-Christina [VerfasserIn] |
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| | Keating, Laura C. [VerfasserIn] |
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| | Kulkarni, Girish [VerfasserIn] |
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| | Lai, Samuel [VerfasserIn] |
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| | Mazzucchelli, Chiara [VerfasserIn] |
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| | Qin, Yuxiang [VerfasserIn] |
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| | Satyavolu, Sindhu [VerfasserIn] |
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| | Wang, Feige [VerfasserIn] |
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| | Yang, Jinyi [VerfasserIn] |
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| | Zhu, Yongda [VerfasserIn] |
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| Titel: | Constraints on the evolution of the ionizing background and ionizing photon mean free path at the end of reionization |
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| Verf.angabe: | Frederick B. Davies, Sarah E. I. Bosman, Prakash Gaikwad, Fahad Nasir, Joseph F. Hennawi, George D. Becker, Martin G. Haehnelt, Valentina D’Odorico, Manuela Bischetti, Anna-Christina Eilers, Laura C. Keating, Girish Kulkarni, Samuel Lai, Chiara Mazzucchelli, Yuxiang Qin, Sindhu Satyavolu, Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang, and Yongda Zhu |
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| E-Jahr: | 2024 |
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| Jahr: | 2024 April 20 |
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| Umfang: | 17 S. |
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| Illustrationen: | Illustrationen |
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| Fussnoten: | Gesehen am 24.09.2024 |
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| Titel Quelle: | Enthalten in: The astrophysical journal |
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| Ort Quelle: | London : Institute of Physics Publ., 1995 |
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| Jahr Quelle: | 2024 |
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| Band/Heft Quelle: | 965(2024), 2, Artikel-ID 134, Seite 1-17 |
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| ISSN Quelle: | 1538-4357 |
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| Abstract: | The variations in Lyα forest opacity observed at z > 5.3 between lines of sight to different background quasars are too strong to be caused by fluctuations in the density field alone. The leading hypothesis for the cause of this excess variance is a late, ongoing reionization process at redshifts below six. Another model proposes strong ionizing background fluctuations coupled to a short, spatially varying mean free path of ionizing photons, without explicitly invoking incomplete reionization. With recent observations suggesting a short mean free path at z ∼ 6, and a dramatic improvement in z > 5 Lyα forest data quality, we revisit this latter possibility. Here, we apply the likelihood-free inference technique of approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) to jointly constrain the hydrogen photoionization rate ΓHI and the mean free path of ionizing photons λ mfp from the effective optical depth distributions at z = 5.0-6.1 from XQR-30. We find that the observations are well-described by fluctuating mean free path models with average mean free paths that are consistent with the steep trend implied by independent measurements at z ∼ 5-6, with a concomitant rapid evolution of the photoionization rate. |
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| DOI: | doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad1d5d |
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| | DOI: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad1d5d |
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| Datenträger: | Online-Ressource |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| K10plus-PPN: | 1903359384 |
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| Verknüpfungen: | → Zeitschrift |
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Constraints on the evolution of the ionizing background and ionizing photon mean free path at the end of reionization / Davies, Frederick B. [VerfasserIn]; 2024 April 20 (Online-Ressource)
