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| author | Martin, Crystal L. Hu, Weida Wold, Isak G. B. Faisst, Andreas Moya-Sierralta, Cristobal Malhotra, Sangeeta Rhoads, James E. Barrientos, Luis Felipe Harikane, Yuichi Infante, Leopoldo Koekemoer, Anton Lopez, Jorge Gonzalez Ouchi, Masami Xu, Junyan Yang, Jiayang Yung, L. Y. Aaron Weaver, John R. McCracken, Henry Zheng, Zhenya Wang, Junxian |
| author_facet | Martin, Crystal L. Hu, Weida Wold, Isak G. B. Faisst, Andreas Moya-Sierralta, Cristobal Malhotra, Sangeeta Rhoads, James E. Barrientos, Luis Felipe Harikane, Yuichi Infante, Leopoldo Koekemoer, Anton Lopez, Jorge Gonzalez Ouchi, Masami Xu, Junyan Yang, Jiayang Yung, L. Y. Aaron Weaver, John R. McCracken, Henry Zheng, Zhenya Wang, Junxian |
| contents | Since the launch of JWST, the sample size of reionization-era Lyman-alpha-emitters (LAEs) has been steadily growing; yet inferences about the neutral hydrogen fraction in the intergalactic medium exhibit increasing variance at redshift z ~ 7, possibly indicating significant field-to-field fluctuations in the progression of cosmic reionization. In this paper, we present new JWST/NIRSpec and Keck/LRIS spectra of nine LAEs in the redshift z ~ 7 protocluster, LAGER-z7OD1. Measurements of Lyman-alpha-transmission and Lyman-alpha velocity offset along multiple sightlines map the Lyman-alpha damping wing optical depth across the galaxy overdensity. In the standard context of inside-out ionization, we estimate radii of ionized bubbles (R(min) = 0.07 - 0.69 Mpc) based on the distance from each LAE to the first neutral patch along the sightline. The resulting 3D topology reveals three distinct sub-clusters where the ionized bubbles are approaching overlap. Five of the nine LAEs plausibly ionized their bubbles, a few bursts of star formation and a modest escape fraction are sufficient. We demonstrate, however, that the actual ionized volumes are likely larger, at least R(ism) = 0.42 - 1.29 Mpc, based on an empirical model for interstellar attenuation of Lyman-alpha. Modeling galactic attenuation of Lyman-alpha significantly increases the inferred intergalactic transmission (thus enlarging the ionized pathlength). The errorbars on the reddening correction allow fully overlapping bubbles, and our results are consistent with accelerated reionization in the protocluster. |
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| spellingShingle | Galaxy Protoclusters as Drivers of Cosmic Reionization: I. Bubble Overlap at Redshift z ~ 7 in LAGER-z7OD1 Martin, Crystal L. Hu, Weida Wold, Isak G. B. Faisst, Andreas Moya-Sierralta, Cristobal Malhotra, Sangeeta Rhoads, James E. Barrientos, Luis Felipe Harikane, Yuichi Infante, Leopoldo Koekemoer, Anton Lopez, Jorge Gonzalez Ouchi, Masami Xu, Junyan Yang, Jiayang Yung, L. Y. Aaron Weaver, John R. McCracken, Henry Zheng, Zhenya Wang, Junxian Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Since the launch of JWST, the sample size of reionization-era Lyman-alpha-emitters (LAEs) has been steadily growing; yet inferences about the neutral hydrogen fraction in the intergalactic medium exhibit increasing variance at redshift z ~ 7, possibly indicating significant field-to-field fluctuations in the progression of cosmic reionization. In this paper, we present new JWST/NIRSpec and Keck/LRIS spectra of nine LAEs in the redshift z ~ 7 protocluster, LAGER-z7OD1. Measurements of Lyman-alpha-transmission and Lyman-alpha velocity offset along multiple sightlines map the Lyman-alpha damping wing optical depth across the galaxy overdensity. In the standard context of inside-out ionization, we estimate radii of ionized bubbles (R(min) = 0.07 - 0.69 Mpc) based on the distance from each LAE to the first neutral patch along the sightline. The resulting 3D topology reveals three distinct sub-clusters where the ionized bubbles are approaching overlap. Five of the nine LAEs plausibly ionized their bubbles, a few bursts of star formation and a modest escape fraction are sufficient. We demonstrate, however, that the actual ionized volumes are likely larger, at least R(ism) = 0.42 - 1.29 Mpc, based on an empirical model for interstellar attenuation of Lyman-alpha. Modeling galactic attenuation of Lyman-alpha significantly increases the inferred intergalactic transmission (thus enlarging the ionized pathlength). The errorbars on the reddening correction allow fully overlapping bubbles, and our results are consistent with accelerated reionization in the protocluster. |
| title | Galaxy Protoclusters as Drivers of Cosmic Reionization: I. Bubble Overlap at Redshift z ~ 7 in LAGER-z7OD1 |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13140 |