Rapid and late cosmic reionization driven by massive galaxies: a joint analysis of constraints from 21-cm, Lyman line, and CMB data sets

Acknowledgements: The authors are grateful to the referee for their thoughtful suggestions that improved the manuscript. PHS acknowledges partial support for this work through funding from the Canada 150 Research Chairs Program and a fellowship from the McGill Space Institute. PHS thanks Jiten Dhandha, Adrian Liu, Andrei Mesinger, Jonathan Sievers, and Irina Stefan for valuable discussions and Irina Stefan for helpful comments on a draft of this manuscript. HTJB acknowledges support from the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge, the Kavli Foundation, and St Edmunds College, Cambridge. DA acknowledges support from the Science and Technologies Facilities Council. RB acknowledges the support of the Israel Science Foundation (grant no. 1078/24).