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Demonstration of our LOS-bubble-finding algorithm, where the zero point of the LOS position is arbitrary. (a) Starting from the galaxy farthest away from the observer, gi, we invert 𝒯(dIGM) (Figure 5, the red dashed line) to estimate the distance between the galaxy and the nearest neutral IGM patch, Di. We set the LOS bubble diameter, Dbubble=Di, and the redshift of the back of the bubble, zback=zi, that is, the redshift of the first galaxy. We then mark all galaxies in front of gi within Dbubble (orange dots) to be inside the same bubble as gi. (b) We then step through the bubble toward the observer to update our estimate of Dbubble. For a galaxy gi+n which is a distance di, i+n from galaxy gi we estimate the distance of galaxy gi+n from neutral IGM, Di+n. If Di+n+di, i+n>Dbubble we update DbubbleDi+n+di, i+n. (c) Once we have iterated through all galaxies contained within Dbubble and Dbubble converges, we continue iterating through all the galaxies in the line-of-sight in the same manner to find all the bubbles. In this example sightline we find two bubbles and their associated galaxies (orange galaxies on the left and green galaxies on the right, the remaining blue point is a galaxy between the two bubbles and is not considered to be inside a bubble).

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