James Bolton

Contact

• workRoom B111 Centre for Astronomy and Particle Theory
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 95 15132
• James.Bolton@nottingham.ac.uk
• http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ppzjsb/

Biography

Ph.D., Astrophysics, University of Cambridge, 2007

MPhys, Astrophysics, University of Edinburgh, 2003

Teaching Summary

I am module convenor for Atmospheric and Planetary Physics (PHYS4004)

I am a member of the teaching team for Scientific Computing (PHYS4007)

Research Summary

Reionisation, the first galaxies and the origin and evolution of the ultra-violet background.

The Lyman-alpha forest as a probe of cosmology and large scale structure.

Quasar absorption lines and the physics of the intergalactic medium.

Numerical simulations of the cosmic web and cosmological radiative transfer.

Selected Publications

• BOLTON, JAMES S., CAPUTO, ANDREA, LIU, HONGWAN and VIEL, MATTEO,, 2022. Comparison of Low-Redshift Lyman- α Forest Observations to Hydrodynamical Simulations with Dark Photon Dark Matter Physical Review Letters. 129, 21102
• BOLTON, JAMES S., PUCHWEIN, EWALD, SIJACKI, DEBORA, HAEHNELT, MARTIN G., KIM, TAE-SUN, MEIKSIN, AVERY, REGAN, JOHN A. and VIEL, MATTEO, 2017. The Sherwood simulation suite: overview and data comparisons with the Lyman alpha forest at redshifts 2 <= z <= 5 MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 464, 897-914
• IRSIC, VID, VIEL, MATTEO, HAEHNELT, MARTIN G., BOLTON, JAMES S. and BECKER, GEORGE D., 2017. First Constraints on Fuzzy Dark Matter from Lyman-alpha Forest Data and Hydrodynamical Simulations PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. 119, 031032
• VIEL, M., BECKER, G.D., BOLTON, J.S., HAEHNELT, M.G., RAUCH, M. and SARGENT, W.L.W., 2008. How cold is cold dark matter?: Small scales constraints from the flux power spectrum of the high redshift Lyman-α forest Physical Review Letters. 100, 041304

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• PUCHWEIN, EWALD, BOLTON, JAMES S, KEATING, LAURA C, MOLARO, MARGHERITA, GAIKWAD, PRAKASH, KULKARNI, GIRISH, HAEHNELT, MARTIN G, IRŠIČ, VID, ŠOLTINSKÝ, TOMÁŠ, VIEL, MATTEO, AUBERT, DOMINIQUE, BECKER, GEORGE D and MEIKSIN, AVERY,, 2023. The Sherwood-Relics simulations: overview and impact of patchy reionization and pressure smoothing on the intergalactic medium Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 519, 6162-6183
• ŠOLTINSKÝ, TOMÁŠ, BOLTON, JAMES S., MOLARO, MARGHERITA, HATCH, NINA, HAEHNELT, MARTIN G., KEATING, LAURA C., KULKARNI, GIRISH and PUCHWEIN, EWALD,, 2023. Probing quasar lifetimes with proximate 21-centimetre absorption in the diffuse intergalactic medium at redshifts z ≥ 6 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 519, 3027-3045
• MOLARO, MARGHERITA, IRŠIČ, VID, BOLTON, JAMES S, LIEU, MAGGIE, KEATING, LAURA C, PUCHWEIN, EWALD, HAEHNELT, MARTIN G and VIEL, MATTEO,, 2023. Possible evidence for a large-scale enhancement in the Lyman-α forest power spectrum at redshift z ≥ 4 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 521, 1489–1501
• BOLTON, JAMES S., CAPUTO, ANDREA, LIU, HONGWAN and VIEL, MATTEO,, 2022. Comparison of Low-Redshift Lyman- α Forest Observations to Hydrodynamical Simulations with Dark Photon Dark Matter Physical Review Letters. 129, 21102
• BOLTON, JAMES S., GAIKWAD, PRAKASH, HAEHNELT, MARTIN G., KIM, TAE SUN, NASIR, FAHAD, PUCHWEIN, EWALD, VIEL, MATTEO and WAKKER, BART P., 2022. Limits on non-canonical heating and turbulence in the intergalactic medium from the low redshift Lyman α forest Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 513, 864-885
• MOLARO, MARGHERITA, IRŠIČ, VID, BOLTON, JAMES S, KEATING, LAURA C., PUCHWEIN, EWALD, GAIKWAD, PRAKASH, HAEHNELT, MARTIN G., KULKARNI, GIRISH and VIEL, MATTEO,, 2022. The effect of inhomogeneous reionization on the Lyman α forest power spectrum at redshift z > 4: implications for thermal parameter recovery Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 509, 6119-6137
• BECKER, GEORGE D., D’ALOISIO, ANSON, CHRISTENSON, HOLLY M., ZHU, YONGDA, WORSECK, GABOR and BOLTON, JAMES S, 2021. The mean free path of ionizing photons at 5 < z < 6: evidence for rapid evolution near reionization Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 508, 1853-1869
• MILLER, JOEL, BOLTON, JAMES and HATCH, NINA, 2021. Searching for the shadows of giants II: the effect of local ionisation on the Lyman-alpha absorption signatures of protoclusters at redshift z=2.4 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 506, 6001-6013
• ŠOLTINSKÍ, TOMÁŠ, BOLTON, JAMES S, HATCH, NINA, HAEHNELT, MARTIN G, KEATING, LAURA C, KULKARNI, GIRISH, PUCHWEIN, EWALD, CHARDIN, JONATHAN and AUBERT, DOMINIQUE, 2021. The detectability of strong 21-cm forest absorbers from the diffuse intergalactic medium in late reionization models Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 506, 5818–5835
• KIM, T-S, WAKKER, B P, NASIR, F, CARSWELL, R F, SAVAGE, B D, BOLTON, J S, FOX, A J, VIEL, M, HAEHNELT, M G, CHARLTON, J C and ROSENWASSER, B E, 2021. The evolution of the low-density H i intergalactic medium from z = 3.6 to 0: Data, transmitted flux, and H i column density Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 501, 5811-5833
• GAIKWAD, PRAKASH, RAUCH, MICHAEL, HAEHNELT, MARTIN G, PUCHWEIN, EWALD, BOLTON, JAMES S, KEATING, LAURA C, KULKARNI, GIRISH, IRŠIČ, VID, BAÑADOS, EDUARDO, BECKER, GEORGE D, BOERA, ELISA, ZAHEDY, FAKHRI S, CHEN, HSIAO-WEN, CARSWELL, ROBERT F, CHARDIN, JONATHAN and RORAI, ALBERTO,, 2020. Probing the thermal state of the intergalactic medium at z > 5 with the transmission spikes in high-resolution Lyαforest spectra Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 494, 5091–5109
• MILLER, JOEL S A, BOLTON, JAMES S and HATCH, NINA, 2019. Searching for the shadows of giants: characterizing protoclusters with line of sight Lyman-α absorption Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 489, 5381-5397
• BOERA, ELISA, BECKER, GEORGE D., BOLTON, JAMES S and NASIR, FAHAD,, 2019. Revealing reionization with the thermal history of the intergalactic medium: new constrainst from the Lyα flux power spectrum Astrophysical Journal. 872, 1-35
• BOLTON, JAMES S., PUCHWEIN, EWALD, SIJACKI, DEBORA, HAEHNELT, MARTIN G., KIM, TAE-SUN, MEIKSIN, AVERY, REGAN, JOHN A. and VIEL, MATTEO, 2017. The Sherwood simulation suite: overview and data comparisons with the Lyman alpha forest at redshifts 2 <= z <= 5 MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 464, 897-914
• MEIKSIN, AVERY, BOLTON, JAMES S. and PUCHWEIN, EWALD, 2017. Gas around galaxy haloes - III: hydrogen absorption signatures around galaxies and QSOs in the Sherwood simulation suite MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 468(2), 1893-1901
• IRSIC, VID, VIEL, MATTEO, BERG, TRYSTYN A. M., D'ODORICO, VALENTINA, HAEHNELT, MARTIN G., CRISTIANI, STEFANO, CUPANI, GUIDO, KIM, TAE-SUN, LOPEZ, SEBASTIAN, ELLISON, SARA, BECKER, GEORGE D., CHRISTENSEN, LISE, DENNEY, KELLY D., WORSECK, GABOR and BOLTON, JAMES S., 2017. The Lyman alpha forest power spectrum from the XQ-100 Legacy Survey MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 466(4), 4332-4345
• IRSIC, VID, VIEL, MATTEO, HAEHNELT, MARTIN G., BOLTON, JAMES S. and BECKER, GEORGE D., 2017. First Constraints on Fuzzy Dark Matter from Lyman-alpha Forest Data and Hydrodynamical Simulations PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. 119, 031032
• IRSIC, VID, VIEL, MATTEO, HAEHNELT, MARTIN G., BOLTON, JAMES S., CRISTIANI, STEFANO, BECKER, GEORGE D., D'ODORICO, VALENTINA, CUPANI, GUIDO, KIM, TAE-SUN, BERG, TRYSTYN A. M., LOPEZ, SEBASTIAN, ELLISON, SARA, CHRISTENSEN, LISE, DENNEY, KELLY D. and WORSECK, GABOR, 2017. New constraints on the free-streaming of warm dark matter from intermediate and small scale Lyman-alpha forest data PHYSICAL REVIEW D. 96(2),
• RORAI, A., BECKER, G. D., HAEHNELT, M. G., CARSWELL, R. F., BOLTON, J. S., CRISTIANI, S., D'ODORICO, V., CUPANI, G., BARAI, P., CALURA, F., KIM, T. -S., POMANTE, E., TESCARI, E. and VIEL, M., 2017. Exploring the thermal state of the low-density intergalactic medium at z=3 with an ultrahigh signal-to-noise QSO spectrum MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 466(3), 2690-2709
• FAHAD NASIR, JAMES S BOLTON, MATTEO VIEL, TAE-SUN KIM, MARTIN G HAEHNELT, EWALD PUCHWEIN and DEBORA SIJACKI, 2017. The effect of stellar and AGN feedback on the low redshift Lyman-α forest in the Sherwood simulation suite Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 471, 1056-1069
• MATTEO VIEL, MARTIN G HAEHNELT, JAMES S BOLTON, TAE-SUN KIM, EWALD PUCHWEIN, FAHAD NASIR and BART P WAKKER, 2017. Diagnosing galactic feedback with line broadening in the low-redshift Lyα forest Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 467, L86-L90
• RORAI, ALBERTO, CARSWELL, R.F., HAEHNELT, MARTIN G., BECKER, GEORGE D., BOLTON, JAMES S. and MURPHY, MICHAEL T., 2017. A new measurement of the intergalactic temperature at z∼2.55 − 2.95 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 474,
• BOERA, ELISA, MURPHY, MICHAEL T., BECKER, GEORGE D. and BOLTON, JAMES S., 2016. y Constraining the temperature-density relation of the intergalactic medium with the Lyman alpha and beta forests MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 456(1), L79-L83
• KEATING, LAURA C., PUCHWEIN, EWALD, HAEHNELT, MARTIN G., BIRD, SIMEON and BOLTON, JAMES S., 2016. Testing the effect of galactic feedback on the IGM at z similar to 6 with metal-line absorbers MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 461(1), 606-626
• NASIR, FAHAD, BOLTON, JAMES S. and BECKER, GEORGE D., 2016. Inferring the IGM thermal history during reionization with the Lyman alpha forest power spectrum at redshift z similar or equal to 5 MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 463(3), 2335-2347
• LEE, KHEE-GAN, HENNAWI, JOSEPH F., SPERGEL, DAVID N., WEINBERG, DAVID H., HOGG, DAVID W., VIEL, MATTEO, BOLTON, JAMES S., BAILEY, STEPHEN, PIERI, MATTHEW M., CARITHERS, WILLIAM, SCHLEGEL, DAVID J., LUNDGREN, BRITT, PALANQUE-DELABROUILLE, NATHALIE, SUZUKI, NAO, SCHNEIDER, DONALD P. and YECHE, CHRISTOPHE, 2015. IGM CONSTRAINTS FROM THE SDSS-III/BOSS DR9 Ly alpha FOREST TRANSMISSION PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL. 799(2),
• GREIG, BRADLEY, BOLTON, JAMES S. and WYITHE, J. STUART B., 2015. The impact of temperature fluctuations on the large-scale clustering of the Ly alpha forest MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 447(3), 2503-2511
• BECKER, GEORGE D., BOLTON, JAMES S., MADAU, PIERO, PETTINI, MAX, RYAN-WEBER, EMMA V. and VENEMANS, BRAM P., 2015. Evidence of patchy hydrogen reionization from an extreme Ly alpha trough below redshift six MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 447(4), 3402-3419
• PUCHWEIN, EWALD, BOLTON, JAMES S., HAEHNELT, MARTIN G., MADAU, PIERO, BECKER, GEORGE D. and HAARDT, FRANCESCO, 2015. The photoheating of the intergalactic medium in synthesis models of the UV background MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 450(4), 4081-4097
• CHOUDHURY, TIRTHANKAR ROY, PUCHWEIN, EWALD, HAEHNELT, MARTIN G. and BOLTON, JAMES S., 2015. Lyman alpha emitters gone missing: evidence for late reionization? MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 452(1), 261-277
• MEIKSIN, AVERY, BOLTON, JAMES S. and TITTLEY, ERIC R., 2015. Gas around galaxy haloes - II. Hydrogen absorption signatures from the environments of galaxies at redshifts 2 < z < 3 MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 453(1), 899-913
• BECKER, GEORGE D., BOLTON, JAMES S. and LIDZ, ADAM, 2015. Reionisation and High-Redshift Galaxies: The View from Quasar Absorption Lines PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA. 32,
• CIARDI, B., INOUE, S., ABDALLA, F. B., ASAD, K., BERNARDI, G., BOLTON, J. S., BRENTJENS, M., DE BRUYN, A. G., CHAPMAN, E., DAIBOO, S., FERNANDEZ, E. R., GHOSH, A., GRAZIANI, L., HARKER, G. J. A., ILIEV, I. T., JELIC, V., JENSEN, H., KAZEMI, S., KOOPMANS, L. V. E., MARTINEZ, O., MASELLI, A., MELLEMA, G., OFFRINGA, A. R., PANDEY, V. N., SCHAYE, J., THOMAS, R., VEDANTHAM, H., YATAWATTA, S. and ZAROUBI, S., 2015. Simulating the 21 cm forest detectable with LOFAR and SKA in the spectra of high-z GRBs MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 453(1), 101-105
• KEATING, LAURA C., HAEHNELT, MARTIN G., BECKER, GEORGE D. and BOLTON, JAMES S., 2014. Probing the metallicity and ionization state of the circumgalactic medium at z similar to 6 and beyond with O I absorption MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 438(2), 1820-1831
• BOLTON, JAMES S., BECKER, GEORGE D., HAEHNELT, MARTIN G. and VIEL, MATTEO, 2014. A consistent determination of the temperature of the intergalactic medium at redshift < z >=2.4 MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 438(3), 2499-2507
• ROSSI, GRAZIANO, PALANQUE-DELABROUILLE, NATHALIE, BORDE, ARNAUD, VIEL, MATTEO, YECHE, CHRISTOPHE, BOLTON, JAMES S., RICH, JAMES and LE GOFF, JEAN-MARC, 2014. Suite of hydrodynamical simulations for the Lyman-alpha forest with massive neutrinos ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS. 567,
• BORDE, ARNAUD, PALANQUE-DELABROUILLE, NATHALIE, ROSSI, GRAZIANO, VIEL, MATTEO, BOLTON, JAMES S., YECHE, CHRISTOPHE, LEGOFF, JEAN-MARC and RICH, JIM, 2014. New approach for precise computation of Lyman-alpha forest power spectrum with hydrodynamical simulations JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS.
• BOERA, ELISA, MURPHY, MICHAEL T., BECKER, GEORGE D. and BOLTON, JAMES S., 2014. The thermal history of the intergalactic medium down to redshift z=1.5: a new curvature measurement MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 441(3), 1916-1933
• MEIKSIN, AVERY, BOLTON, JAMES S. and TITTLEY, ERIC R., 2014. Gas around galaxy haloes: methodology comparisons using hydrodynamical simulations of the intergalactic medium MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 445(3), 2462-2475
• KNEVITT, G., WYNN, G. A., POWER, C. and BOLTON, J. S., 2014. Heating and ionization of the primordial intergalactic medium by high-mass X-ray binaries MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 445(2), 2034-2048
• BOLTON JS and HAEHNELT MG, 2013. On the rapid demise of Lyman-alpha emitters at redshift z>7 due to the increasing incidence of optically thick absorption systems Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 429(2), 1695-1704
• CIARDI B, LABROPOULOS P, MASELLI A, THOMAS R, ZAROUBI S, GRAZIANI L, BOLTON JS, BERNARDI G, BRENTJENS M, DE BRUYN AG, DAIBOO S, HARKER GJA, JELIC V, KAZEMI S, KOOPMANS LVE, MARTINEZ O, MELLEMA G, OFFRINGA AR, PANDEY VN, SCHAYE J, VELIGATLA V, VENDANTHAM H and YATAWATTA S, 2013. Prospects for detecting the 21 cm forest from the diffuse intergalactic medium with LOFAR Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 428(2), 1755-1765
• VIEL, MATTEO, BECKER, GEORGE D., BOLTON, JAMES S. and HAEHNELT, MARTIN G., 2013. Warm dark matter as a solution to the small scale crisis: New constraints from high redshift Lyman-alpha forest data PHYSICAL REVIEW D. 88(4),
• PALANQUE-DELABROUILLE, NATHALIE, YECHE, CHRISTOPHE, BORDE, ARNAUD, LE GOFF, JEAN-MARC, ROSSI, GRAZIANO, VIEL, MATTEO, AUBOURG, ERIC, BAILEY, STEPHEN, BAUTISTA, JULIAN, BLOMQVIST, MICHAEL, BOLTON, ADAM, BOLTON, JAMES S., BUSCA, NICOLAS G., CARITHERS, BILL, CROFT, RUPERT A. C., DAWSON, KYLE S., DELUBAC, TIMOTHEE, FONT-RIBERA, ANDREU, HO, SHIRLEY, KIRKBY, DAVID, LEE, KHEE-GAN, MARGALA, DANIEL, MIRALDA-ESCUDE, JORDI, MUNA, DEMITRI, MYERS, ADAM D., NOTERDAEME, PASQUIER, PARIS, ISABELLE, PETITJEAN, PATRICK, PIERI, MATTHEW M., RICH, JAMES, ROLLINDE, EMMANUEL, ROSS, NICHOLAS P., SCHLEGEL, DAVID J., SCHNEIDER, DONALD P., SLOSAR, ANZE and WEINBERG, DAVID H., 2013. The one-dimensional Ly alpha forest power spectrum from BOSS ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS. 559,
• BECKER, GEORGE D. and BOLTON, JAMES S., 2013. New measurements of the ionizing ultraviolet background over 2 < z < 5 and implications for hydrogen reionization MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 436(2), 1023-1039
• BOLTON JS, BECKER GD, RASKUTTI S, WYITHE JSB, HAEHNELT MG and SARGET WLW, 2012. Improved measurements of the intergalactic medium temperature around quasars: possible evidence for the initial stages of He II reionization at z=6 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 419(4), 2880-2892
• RASKUTTI S, BOLTON JS, WYITHE JSB and BECKER GD, 2012. Thermal constraints on the reionization of hydrogen by Population II stellar sources Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 421(3), 1969-1981
• CALURA F, TESCARI E, D'ODORICO V, VIEL M, CRISTIANI S, KIM TS and BOLTON JS, 2012. The Lyman-alpha forest flux probability distribution at z>3 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Societyo. 422(4), 3019-3036
• CIARDI B, BOLTON JS, MASELLI A and GRAZIANI L, 2012. The effect of intergalactic helium on hydrogen reionization: implications for the sources of ionizing photons at z>6 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 423(1), 558-574
• GARZILLI A, BOLTON JS, KIM TS, LEACH S and VIEL M, 2012. The intergalactic medium thermal history at redshift z = 1.7-3.2 from the Lyman-alpha forest: a comparison of measurements using wavelets and the flux distribution Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 424(3), 1723-1736
• BECKER, G.D., BOLTON, J.S., HAEHNELT, M.G. and SARGENT, W.L.W., 2011. Detection of extended He II reionization in the temperature evolution of the intergalactic medium Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 410(2), 1096-1112
• BOLTON, J.S., HAEHNELT, M.G., WARREN, S.J., HEWETT, P.C., MORTLOCK, D.J., VENEMANS, B.P., MCMAHON, R.G. and SIMPSON, C., 2011. How neutral is the intergalactic medium surrounding the redshift z=7.085 quasar ULAS J1120+0641? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 416(1), L70-L74
• WYITHE JSB and BOLTON JS, 2011. Near-zone sizes and the rest-frame extreme ultraviolet spectral index of the highest redshift quasars Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 412(3), 1926-1936
• CALVERLEY AP, BECKER GD, HAEHNELT MG and BOLTON JS, 2011. Measurements of the ultraviolet background at 4.6 < z < 6.4 using the quasar proximity effect Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 412(4), 2543-2562
• BOLTON JS and VIEL M, 2011. The impact of spatial fluctuations in the ultraviolet background on intergalactic carbon and silicon Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 414(1), 241-252
• GREIG B, BOLTON JS and WYITHE JSB, 2011. Fast, large-volume, GPU-enabled simulations for the Lyman-alpha forest: power spectrum forecasts for baryon acoustic oscillation experiments Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 418(3), 1980-1993
• BOLTON JS, BECKER GD, WYITHE JSB, HAEHNELT MG and SARGENT WLW, 2010. A first direct measurement of the intergalactic medium temperature around a quasar at z = 6 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 406(1), 612-615
• BOLTON JS, OH SP and FURNLANETTO SR, 2009. Photo-heating and the fate of hard photons during the reionisation of He II by quasars Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 395(2), 736-752
• VIEL M, BOLTON JS and HAEHNELT MG, 2009. Cosmological and astrophysical constraints from the Lyman-alpha forest flux probability distribution function Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 399(1), L39-L43
• BOLTON JS, OH SP and FURLANETTO SR, 2009. The evolution of the Lyman-alpha forest effective optical depth following HeII reionization Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 396(4), 2405-2418
• BOLTON JS and BECKER GD, 2009. Resolving the high redshift Lyman-alpha forest in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 398(1), L26-L30
• VIEL, M., BECKER, G.D., BOLTON, J.S., HAEHNELT, M.G., RAUCH, M. and SARGENT, W.L.W., 2008. How cold is cold dark matter?: Small scales constraints from the flux power spectrum of the high redshift Lyman-α forest Physical Review Letters. 100, 041304
• BOLTON, J.S., VIEL, M., KIM, T.-S., HAEHNELT, M.G. and CARSWELL, R.F., 2008. Possible evidence for an inverted temperature-density relation in the intergalactic medium from the flux distribution of the Lyα forest Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 386(2), 1131-1144
• WYITHE JSB, BOLTON JS and HAEHNELT MG, 2008. Reionization bias in high-redshift quasar near-zones Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 383(2), 691-704
• BOLTON JS and HAEHNELT MG, 2007. The nature and evolution of the highly ionized near-zones in the absorption spectra of z=6 quasars Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 374(2), 493-514
• BOLTON JS and HAEHNELT MG, 2007. A closer look at using quasar near-zones as a probe of neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 381(1), L35-L39
• BOLTON JS and HAEHNELT MG, 2007. The observed ionization rate of the intergalactic medium and the ionizing emissivity at z>5: evidence for a photon-starved and extended epoch of reionization Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 382(1), 325-341
• KIM TS, BOLTON JS, VIEL M, HAEHNELT MG and CARSWELL RF, 2007. An improved measurement of the flux distribution of the Lyα forest in QSO absorption spectra: the effect of continuum fitting, metal contamination and noise properties Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 382(4), 1657-1674
• BOLTON JS, HAEHNELT MG, VIEL M and CARSWELL RF, 2006. Spatial fluctuations in the spectral shape of the ultraviolet background at 2 < z < 3 and the reionization of helium Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 366(4), 1378-1390
• BOLTON JS, HAEHNELT MG, VIEL M and SPRINGEL V, 2005. The Lyman-alpha forest opacity and the metagalactic hydrogen ionization rate at z=2-4 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 357(4), 1178-1188
• BOLTON JS, MEIKSIN A and WHITE M, 2004. Radiative transfer through the intergalactic medium Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 348(3), L43-L48