{"paper":{"title":"Evidence of patchy hydrogen reionization from an extreme Ly$\\alpha$ trough below redshift six","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.CO","authors_text":"Bram P. Venemans, Emma V. Ryan-Weber, George D. Becker, James S. Bolton, Max Pettini, Piero Madau","submitted_at":"2014-07-17T22:15:19Z","abstract_excerpt":"We report the discovery of an extremely long ($\\sim$110 Mpc/$h$) and dark ($\\tau_{\\rm eff} \\gtrsim 7$) Ly$\\alpha$ trough extending down to $z \\simeq 5.5$ towards the $z_{\\rm em} \\simeq 6.0$ quasar ULAS J0148+0600. We use these new data in combination with Ly$\\alpha$ forest measurements from 42 quasars at $4.5 \\le z_{\\rm em} \\le 6.4$ to conduct an updated analysis of the line-of-sight variance in the intergalactic Ly$\\alpha$ opacity over $4 \\le z \\le 6$. We find that the scatter in transmission among lines of sight near $z \\sim 6$ significantly exceeds theoretical expectations for either a unif"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1407.4850","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}