We introduce the Python program THALAS (TensorFlow Hydrodynamics Analysis for Lyman-Alpha Simulations), which maps baryon fields (baryon density, temperature, and velocity) to Lyα optical depth fields in both real space and redshift space. Unlike previous Lyα codes, THALAS is fully differentiable, enabling a wide variety of potential applications for general analysis of hydrodynamical simulations and cosmological inference. To demonstrate THALAS's capabilities, we apply it to the Lyα forest inversion problem: given a Lyα optical depth field, we reconstruct the corresponding real-space dark matter density field. Such applications are relevant to both cosmological and three-dimensional tomographic analyses of Lyman Alpha forest data.
@article{arxiv.2407.16009,
title = {TensorFlow Hydrodynamics Analysis for Ly-$\alpha$ Simulations},
author = {Jupiter Ding and Benjamin Horowitz and Zarija Lukić},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.16009},
year = {2024}
}