List of works by George D. Becker

A Population of Faint Extended Line Emitters and the Host Galaxies of Optically Thick QSO Absorption Systems

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A consistent determination of the temperature of the intergalactic medium at redshift 〈z〉 = 2.4

scientific article

A deep search for metals near redshift 7: the line of sight towards ULAS J1120+0641

article by Bosman S. E. I. et al published 2017 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

A first direct measurement of the intergalactic medium temperature around a quasar at z= 6

scholarly article

A new measurement of the intergalactic temperature at z ∼ 2.55–2.95

scientific article

A refined measurement of the mean transmitted flux in the Lyα forest over 2 < z < 5 using composite quasar spectra

scientific article

A z = 3.045 Ly{alpha} emitting halo hosting a QSO and a possible candidate for AGN-triggered star formation

scientific article

CODEX

scholarly article in proceedings of SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Constraining the temperature–density relation of the intergalactic medium with the Lyman α and β forests

Cosmic Reionization on Computers: Properties of the Post-reionization IGM

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

DES J0454-4448: discovery of the first luminous z >= 6 quasar from the Dark Energy Survey

scientific article

Detection of extended He ii reionization in the temperature evolution of the intergalactic medium★

scientific article

Determining the Nature of Late Gunn–Peterson Troughs with Galaxy Surveys

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Discovery of excess O I absorption toward the z=6.42 QSO SDSS J1148+5251

Evidence for Large-scale Fluctuations in the Metagalactic Ionizing Background Near Redshift Six

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Evidence of patchy hydrogen reionization from an extreme Lyα trough below redshift six

scientific article

Expansion and collapse in the cosmic web

scientific article published in January 2005

Exploring the thermal state of the low-density intergalactic medium atz = 3 with an ultrahigh signal-to-noise QSO spectrum

scholarly article

Extended and filamentary Ly{alpha} emission from the formation of a protogalactic halo at z = 2.63

scientific article published in January 2013

Filamentary infall of cold gas and escape of Lyα and hydrogen ionizing radiation from an interacting high-redshift galaxy★

scientific article

First Constraints on Fuzzy Dark Matter from Lyman-α Forest Data and Hydrodynamical Simulations

scientific article published on 20 July 2017

High-redshift metals. I. The decline of C IV at z > 5.3

scientific article published in January 2009

High-redshift metals. II. Probing reionization galaxies with low-ionization absorption lines at redshift six

scholarly article

High-redshift starbursting dwarf galaxies revealed by {gamma}-ray burst afterglows

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

How Cold Is Cold Dark Matter? Small-Scales Constraints from the Flux Power Spectrum of the High-Redshift Lyman-αForest

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Improved measurements of the intergalactic medium temperature around quasars: possible evidence for the initial stages of He ii reionization at z ≃ 6

scientific article

Inferring the IGM thermal history during reionization with the Lyman α forest power spectrum at redshiftz≃ 5

scientific article

Iron and {alpha}-element production in the first one billion years after the Big Bang

scientific article published in January 2012

Large-scale correlations in the Ly{alpha} forest at z = 3-4

scientific article published in January 2004

Measurements of the ultraviolet background at 4.6 < z < 6.4 using the quasar proximity effect★

scholarly article

Metals in thez∼ 3 intergalactic medium: results from an ultra-high signal-to-noise ratio UVES quasar spectrum

scientific article

Nature and statistical properties of quasar associated absorption systems in the XQ-100 Legacy Survey

scholarly article

New constraints on the free-streaming of warm dark matter from intermediate and small scale Lyman- α forest data

article

New measurements of the ionizing ultraviolet background over 2 < z < 5 and implications for hydrogen reionization

scholarly article

Observational aspects of galactic accretion at redshift 3.3

scientific article

Observations of the Lyman series forest towards the redshift 7.1 quasar ULAS J1120+0641

scientific article published in January 2017

Probing the metallicity and ionization state of the circumgalactic medium at z ∼ 6 and beyond with O i absorption

scientific article

Pushing FORS to the Limit—A New Population of Faint Extended Lyα Emitters at z∼3

Re-examining the case for neutral gas near the redshift 7 quasar ULAS J1120+0641

scientific article published in January 2015

Reionisation and High-Redshift Galaxies: The View from Quasar Absorption Lines

Resolving the high redshift Lyα forest in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations

scholarly article

Revealing Reionization with the Thermal History of the Intergalactic Medium: New Constraints from the Lyα Flux Power Spectrum

scholarly article

Star-forming galactic contrails as a source of metal enrichment and ionizing radiation at high redshift

scientific article published in January 2014

Stellar population effects on the inferred photon density at reionization

scientific article published in January 2016

Supernova Remnants in the Fossil Starburst in M82

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Testing metallicity indicators at z ~ 1.4 with the gravitationally lensed galaxy CASSOWARY 20

scientific article published in January 2014

The Giant Gemini GMOS survey of zem > 4.4 quasars – I. Measuring the mean free path across cosmic time

scientific article published on 14 October 2014

The Lyman-alpha forest power spectrum from the XQ-100 Legacy Survey

scientific article

The evolution of neutral gas in damped Lyman α systems from the XQ-100 survey

scientific article

The evolution of optical depth in the Ly{alpha} forest: evidence against reionization at z~6

scientific article

The kinetic temperature in a damped Lyman α absorption system in Q2206−199 - an example of the warm neutral medium

article

The neutral hydrogen cosmological mass density atz= 5

scientific article published on 2 July 2015

The photoheating of the intergalactic medium in synthesis models of the UV background

scholarly article

The physical conditions of a lensed star-forming galaxy at z = 1.7

scientific article published in January 2011

The thermal history of the intergalactic medium down to redshift z = 1.5: a new curvature measurement

scientific article

The transitional stripped-envelope SN 2008ax: spectral evolution and evidence for large asphericity

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Thermal constraints on the reionization of hydrogen by Population II stellar sources

scientific article

Unveiling the secrets of metallicity and massive star formation using DLAs along gamma-ray bursts

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Warm dark matter as a solution to the small scale crisis: New constraints from high redshift Lyman-αforest data

article

XQ-100: A legacy survey of one hundred 3.5 ≲z≲ 4.5 quasars observed with VLT/X-shooter

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics