10 Mpc QSO Absorber Correlations at z~3
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We present results from a survey of the Lyman alpha forest at 2.15<z<3.26 toward ten QSOs concentrated within a 1 degree field. We find correlations of the Lyman alpha absorption line wavelengths between different lines-of-sight over the whole redshift range. This indicates the existence of large-scale structures in the Lyman alpha forest extending at least over ~36/h comoving Mpc in the plane of the sky, as may be expected from recent large scale structure simulations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9709170,
title = {10 Mpc QSO Absorber Correlations at z~3},
author = {G. M. Williger and A. Smette and C. Hazard and J. A. Baldwin and R. G. McMahon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9709170},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, LaTeX (type return if "10pt.sty" error message), with 1 PostScript figure, to appear in the Proceedings of the 13th IAP Colloquium (July 1-5, 1997): ``Structure and Evolution of the IGM from QSO Absorption Line Systems''