Probing the Reionization History and Bubble Sizes with JWST Lyman- alpha Fraction Measurements

arXiv:2609.40363 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Code: https://github.com/aritrak-98/Lyman

Terminology

• Calibration — 9× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Dust Attenuation — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• alpha — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abundance — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Distribution Shift — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Recent James Webb Space Telescope — 2× in this paper
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Epoch of Reionization — 1× in this paper
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Saas-Fee Lecture Notes: Physics of Lyman Alpha Radiative Transfer
• The Prime Focus Spectrograph Galaxy Evolution Survey
• The gradual decline of Ly alpha visibility in the CANDELS fields: evidence for the combined effects of galaxy evolution and reionization
• The THESAN project: Lyman-alpha emitters as probes of ionized bubble sizes

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