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We test a method to reduce unwanted sample variance when predicting Lyman-$\alpha$ (ly$\alpha$) forest power spectra from cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. Sample variance arises due to sparse sampling of modes on large scales and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-16 Lauren Anderson , Andrew Pontzen , Andreu Font-Ribera , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Keir K. Rogers , Shy Genel

We use the Ly-$\alpha$ Mass Association Scheme (LyMAS; Peirani et al. 2014) to predict cross-correlations at $z=2.5$ between dark matter halos and transmitted flux in the Ly-$\alpha$ forest, and compare to cross-correlations measured for…

Correlations of fluctuations of the flux in Lyman-$\alpha$ forests of high-redshift quasars have been observed by the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation Spectroscopy Survey (BOSS) and the Dark Energy Spectroscopy Instrument (DESI) survey where…

We present the first detection of a correlation between the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest and cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing. For each Lyman-$\alpha$ forest in SDSS-III/BOSS DR12, we correlate the one-dimensional power spectrum with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Cyrille Doux , Emmanuel Schaan , Eric Aubourg , Ken Ganga , Khee-Gan Lee , David N. Spergel , Julien Tréguer

The squeezed-limit bispectrum, which is generated by nonlinear gravitational evolution as well as inflationary physics, measures the correlation of three wavenumbers, in the configuration where one wavenumber is much smaller than the other…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Chi-Ting Chiang , Agnieszka M. Cieplak , Fabian Schmidt , Anže Slosar

The Lyman-$\beta$ forest refers to a region in the spectra of distant quasars that lies between the rest-frame Lyman-$\beta$ and Lyman-$\gamma$ emissions. The forest in this region is dominated by a combination of absorption due to resonant…

Lyman alpha absorber correlations contain information about the underlying density distribution associated with a particular class of absorbers. As such, they provide an opportunity to independently measure the "bias" of the Lyman alpha…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Romeel Davé , Neal Katz , David H. Weinberg

We report the first detection at a median redshift $z = 2.49$ of large-scale matter flows around cosmic voids. Voids are identified within a tomographic map of large-scale Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) transmissions, built from the eBOSS…

While the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest traces the large-scale matter distribution over a wide range of redshift, its three-dimensional (3D) clustering at $z < 2$ has not yet been measured. We investigate the prospects for measuring…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Ting Tan , Huanyuan Shan , Eric Armengaud

The highly anisotropic nature of the Lyman-alpha (Ly$\alpha$) forest data introduces a complex survey window function that complicates the measurement of the three-dimensional power spectrum ($P_{\mathrm{3D}}$). In this paper, we present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-19 N. G. Karaçaylı , C. M. Hirata

We present the first robust measurement of the one-dimensional Lyman alpha (Ly$\alpha$) forest bispectrum using the complete extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) quasar sample, corresponding to the sixteenth data release…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-15 Rodrigo de la Cruz , Gustavo Niz , Vid Iršič , Corentin Ravoux , César Ramírez-Pérez , Hiram K. Herrera-Alcantar

We compute the 3D cross-correlation between the absorption of the $z\sim 2.3$ Lyman-alpha forest measured by the COSMOS Lyman-Alpha Mapping And Tomography Observations (CLAMATO) survey, and 1642 foreground galaxies with spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Benjamin Zhang , Khee-Gan Lee , Andrei Cuceu , Andreu Font-Ribera , Rieko Momose

We present a search for spatial and redshift correlations in a 2 A resolution spectroscopic survey of the Lyman alpha forest at 2.15 < z < 3.37 toward ten QSOs concentrated within a 1-degree diameter field. We find a signal at 2.7 sigma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. M. Williger , A. Smette , C. Hazard , J. A. Baldwin , R. G. McMahon

We present a new measurement of the Ly${\alpha}$ forest power spectrum at $1.8 < z < 3.4$ using 74 Keck/HIRES and VLT/UVES high-resolution, high-S/N quasar spectra. We developed a custom pipeline to measure the power spectrum and its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-03 Michael Walther , Joseph F. Hennawi , Hector Hiss , Jose Oñorbe , Khee-Gan Lee , Alberto Rorai , John O'Meara

One of the major science goals over the coming decade is to test fundamental physics with probes of the cosmic large-scale structure out to high redshift. Here we present a fully Bayesian approach to infer the three-dimensional cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Natalia Porqueres , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux , Torsten Enßlin

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. M. Williger , A. Smette , C. Hazard , J. A. Baldwin , R. G. McMahon

This paper illustrates how mock observational samples of high-redshift galaxies with sophisticated selection criteria can be extracted from the predictions of GALICS, a hybrid model of hierarchical galaxy formation that couples the outputs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Blaizot , B. Guiderdoni , J. E. G. Devriendt , F. R. Bouchet , S. Hatton , F. Stoehr

When performing cosmological inference, standard analyses of the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) three-dimensional correlation functions only consider the information carried by the distinct peak produced by baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Francesca Gerardi , Andrei Cuceu , Andreu Font-Ribera , Benjamin Joachimi , Pablo Lemos