Fast modelling of ionization balance in the intergalactic medium: I- implications for the IGM metallicity

arXiv:2604.14676 · astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-04-16 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-04-16

Updated: 2026-08-28

Terminology

• Metallicity — 39× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Abundance — 20× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Clustering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accretion Flows — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• The 2017 Release of Cloudy
• Probing the He II reionization ERa via Absorbing C IV Historical Yield (HIERACHY) III: The C IV absorber catalog and initial results on cosmic abundance evolution at $z\approx 3-5$

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