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- W3100631029 abstract "We measure the effective optical depth of He ii Lyα absorption at in 17 UV-transmitting quasars observed with UV spectrographs on the Hubble Space Telescope. The median values increase gradually from 1.95 at to at , but with a strong sightline-to-sightline variance. Many comoving Mpc regions of the intergalactic medium (IGM) remain transmissive (), and the gradual trend with redshift appears consistent with density evolution of a fully reionized IGM. These modest optical depths imply average He ii fractions of and He ii ionizing photon mean free paths of comoving Mpc at , thus requiring that a substantial volume of the helium in the universe was already doubly ionized at early times; this stands in conflict with current models of He ii reionization driven by luminous quasars. Along 10 sightlines we measure the coeval H i Lyα effective optical depths, allowing us to study the density dependence of at . We establish that the dependence of on increasing is significantly shallower than expected from simple models of an IGM reionized in He ii. This requires higher He ii photoionization rates in overdense regions or underdense regions being not in photoionization equilibrium. Moreover, there are very large fluctuations in at all which greatly exceed the expectations from these simple models. These data present a distinct challenge to scenarios of He ii reionization—an IGM where He ii appears to be predominantly ionized at , and with a radiation field strength that may be correlated with the density field, but exhibits large fluctuations at all densities." @default.
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- W3100631029 date "2016-07-13" @default.
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- W3100631029 title "EARLY AND EXTENDED HELIUM REIONIZATION OVER MORE THAN 600 MILLION YEARS OF COSMIC TIME" @default.
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