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In this paper, we investigate the possibility of selecting high-redshift Lyman-Break Galaxies (LBG) using current and future broadband wide photometric surveys, such as UNIONS or the Vera C. Rubin LSST. This work is conducted in the context…

The 21-cm forest is a promising probe of the Epoch of Reionization. The local state of the intergalactic medium (IGM) is encoded in the spectrum of a background source (radio-loud quasars or gamma ray burst afterglow) by absorption at the…

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We propose a novel method to reconstruct high-resolution three-dimensional mass maps using data from photometric weak-lensing surveys. We apply an adaptive LASSO algorithm to perform a sparsity-based reconstruction on the assumption that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-03 Xiangchong Li , Naoki Yoshida , Masamune Oguri , Shiro Ikeda , Wentao Luo

Line-Intensity Mapping (LIM) has emerged as a powerful technique for studying large-scale structure and the high-redshift universe, enabling three-dimensional maps of line emission across vast cosmological volumes. In this review, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Tzu-Ching Chang , Adam Lidz

Mapping the intergalactic medium (IGM) in Lyman-$\alpha$ emission would yield unprecedented tomographic information on the large-scale distribution of baryons and potentially provide new constraints on the UV background and various feedback…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-22 Joris Witstok , Ewald Puchwein , Girish Kulkarni , Renske Smit , Martin G. Haehnelt

We use hydrodynamic cosmological simulations in a (600 Mpc)^3 volume to study the observability of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the intergalactic medium as probed by Lyman alpha forest (LAF) absorption. The large scale separation…

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Ly-$\alpha$ tomography surveys have begun to produce three-dimensional (3D) maps of the intergalactic medium (IGM) opacity at $z \sim 2.5$ with Mpc resolution. These surveys provide an exciting new way to discover and characterize…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-14 Mahdi Qezlou , Andrew B. Newman , Gwen C. Rudie , Simeon Bird

We use LUQAS, a sample of 27 high resolution high signal-to-noise UVES quasar (QSO) spectra (Kim et al. 2004), and the Croft et al. (2002) sample together with a set of high resolution large box size hydro-dynamical simulations run with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Matteo Viel

The distribution of diffuse gas in the intergalactic medium (IGM) imprints a series of hydrogen absorption lines on the spectra of distant background quasars known as the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest. Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Alberto Rorai , Joseph F. Hennawi , Jose Oñorbe , Martin White , J. Xavier Prochaska , Girish Kulkarni , Michael Walther , Zarija Lukić , Khee-Gan Lee

The Lyman-$\alpha$ forest is a valuable probe of dark matter models featuring a scale-dependent suppression of the power spectrum as compared to $\Lambda$CDM. In this work, we present a new estimator of the Lyman-$\alpha$ flux power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Mathias Garny , Thomas Konstandin , Laura Sagunski , Sean Tulin

Higher order clustering statistics of Ly$\alpha$ forest provide a unique probe to study non-gaussianity in Intergalactic matter distribution up to high redshifts and from large to small scales. The author presents a brief review of his work…

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The three-dimensional distribution of the Ly$\alpha$ forest has been extensively used to constrain cosmology through measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) scale. However, more cosmological information could be extracted…

We present a novel procedure to estimate the Equation of State of the intergalactic medium in the quasi-linear regime of structure formation based on Ly$\alpha$ forest tomography and apply it to 21 high quality quasar spectra from the…

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We measure the large-scale cross-correlation of quasars with the Lyman \alpha\ forest absorption in redshift space, using ~ 60000 quasar spectra from Data Release 9 (DR9) of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). The…

We use an automated Voigt-profile fitting procedure to extract statistical properties of the Ly$\alpha$ forest in a numerical simulation of an $\Omega=1$, cold dark matter (CDM) universe. Our analysis method is similar to that used in most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Romeel Davé , Lars Hernquist , David H. Weinberg , Neal Katz

We identify a concordant model for the intergalactic medium (IGM) at redshift z=1.9 that uses popular values for cosmological and astrophysical parameters and accounts for all baryons with an uncertainty of 6%. We have measured the amount…

Using a high resolution cosmological simulation of reionization we have examined the differing structures formed by gas and dark matter at a redshift of 5.1. Baryon-rich regions form a small number of filaments, which connect the largest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Gayler Harford , Andrew J. S. Hamilton , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

We measure the three-dimensional power spectrum (P3D) of the transmitted flux in the Lyman-a (Ly-a) forest using the complete extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey data release 16 (eBOSS DR16). This sample consists of 205,012…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-11 Roger de Belsunce , Oliver H. E. Philcox , Vid Irsic , Patrick McDonald , Julien Guy , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille

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