Measurements of the z > 5 Lyman-α forest flux autocorrelation functions from the extended XQR-30 data set

Author:

Wolfson Molly1ORCID,Hennawi Joseph F12ORCID,Bosman Sarah E I34ORCID,Davies Frederick B3ORCID,Lukić Zarija5,Becker George D6ORCID,Chen Huanqing7ORCID,Cupani Guido89ORCID,D’Odorico Valentina8910ORCID,Eilers Anna-Christina11ORCID,Haehnelt Martin G12,Keating Laura C13ORCID,Kulkarni Girish14ORCID,Lai Samuel15,Mesinger Andrei10ORCID,Walter Fabian3,Zhu Yongda6ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physics, University of California , Santa Barbara, CA 93106 , USA

2. Leiden Observatory, Leiden University , Niels Bohrweg 2, NL-2333 CA Leiden , the Netherlands

3. Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie , Königstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg , Germany

4. Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University , Philosophenweg 12, D-69120 Heidelberg , Germany

5. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, CA 94720 , USA

6. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California , Riverside, CA 92521 , USA

7. Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto , 60 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 3H8 , Canada

8. INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste , Via Tiepolo 11, I-34143 Trieste , Italy

9. IFPU-Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe , via Beirut 2, I-34151 Trieste , Italy

10. Scuola Normale Superiore , Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, I-56126 Pisa , Italy

11. MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research , 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 , USA

12. Kavli Institute for Cosmology and Institute of Astronomy , Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA , UK

13. Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh , Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ , UK

14. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research , Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400005 , India

15. Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University , Canberra, ACT 2611 , Australia

Abstract

ABSTRACT We present the first observational measurements of the Lyman-α (Ly α) forest flux autocorrelation functions in ten redshift bins from 5.1 ≤ z ≤ 6.0. We use a sample of 35 quasar sightlines at z > 5.7 from the extended XQR-30 data set; these data have signal-to-noise ratios of >20 per spectral pixel. We carefully account for systematic errors in continuum reconstruction, instrumentation, and contamination by damped Ly α systems. With these measurements, we introduce software tools to generate autocorrelation function measurements from any simulation. Our measurements of the smallest bin of the autocorrelation function increase with redshift when normalizing by the mean flux, 〈F〉. This increase may come from decreasing 〈F〉 or increasing mean free path of hydrogen-ionizing photons, λmfp. Recent work has shown that the autocorrelation function from simulations at z > 5 is sensitive to λmfp, a quantity that contains vital information on the ending of reionization. For an initial comparison, we show our autocorrelation measurements with simulation models for recently measured λmfp values and find good agreements. Further work in modelling and understanding the covariance matrices of the data is necessary to get robust measurements of λmfp from this data.

Funder

European Research Council

National Science Foundation

STFC

Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

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