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Quasars are the most luminous non-transient sources in the epoch of cosmological reionization (i.e., which ended a billion years after the Big Bang, corresponding to a redshift of z ~ 5), and are powerful probes of the inter-galactic medium at that time.
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Evidence of a cosmological Strömgren surface and of significant neutral hydrogen surrounding the quasar SDSS J1030+0524
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Redshifted 21 cm Emission from the Pre-Reionization Era. II. H II Regions around Individual Quasars
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The Strömgren Sphere, the Environment, and the Reionization in the Local Universe of the Highest Redshift QSOs
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Eddington-limited accretion and the black hole mass function at redshift 6
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Was reionization complete by z ∼ 5 − 6 z\sim 5-6 ?
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Improved redshifts for SDSS quasar spectra
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The reanalysis of spectra of GRB 080913 to estimate the neutral fraction of the IGM at a redshift of 6.7
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The first (nearly) model-independent constraint on the neutral hydrogen fraction at z ∼ 6 z\sim 6
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J. S. B. Wyithe, A. Loeb, and D. G. Barnes · 2005
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Observational Constraints on Cosmic Reionization
X. Fan, C. L. Carilli, and B. Keating · 2006
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Quasars as probes of late reionization and early structure formation
S. G. Djorgovski, M. Bogosavljevic, and A. Mahabal · 2006
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Constraining the evolution of the ionizing background and the epoch of reionization with z ∼ \sim 6 quasars. II. A sample of 19 quasars
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A luminous quasar at a redshift of z 7.085 z7.085
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How neutral is the intergalactic medium surrounding the redshift z 7.085 quasar ULAS J1120+0641?
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21CMFAST: a fast, seminumerical simulation of the high-redshift 21-cm signal
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The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey: Stacked Images and Catalogs
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Detection of Atomic Carbon [C II] 158 μ \mu m and Dust Emission from a z 7.1 Quasar Host Galaxy
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Detecting the highest redshift ( z > 8 z>8 ) quasi-stellar objects in a wide, near-infrared slitless spectroscopic survey
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Lower-luminosity Galaxies Could Reionize the Universe: Very Steep Faint-end Slopes to the UV Luminosity Functions at z > 5 − 8 z>5-8 from the HUDF09 WFC3/IR Observations
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