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The Ly$\alpha$ forest, a series of HI absorption lines in the quasar spectra, is a powerful tool for probing the large-scale structure of the intergalactic medium. Its three-dimensional (3D) correlation and cross-correlations with quasars…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-23 Koichiro Nakashima , Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Kentaro Nagamine , Yuri Oku , Ikkoh Shimizu

The Lyman-$\alpha$ forest refers to the series of absorption features observed in the spectra of distant quasars that are produced by neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium. Observed over a wide range of redshifts with both ground-…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-22 Jonás Chaves-Montero

We extend our super-resolution and emulation framework for cosmological dark matter simulations to include hydrodynamics. We present a two-stage deep learning model to emulate high-resolution (HR-HydroSim) baryonic fields from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-23 Fatemeh Hafezianzadeh , Xiaowen Zhang , Yueying Ni , Rupert A. C. Croft , Tiziana DiMatteo , Mahdi Qezlou , Simeon Bird

We measure the linear power spectrum of mass density fluctuations at redshift z=2.5 from the \lya forest absorption in a sample of 19 QSO spectra, using the method introduced by Croft et al. (1998). The P(k) measurement covers the range…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rupert A. C. Croft , David H. Weinberg , Max Pettini , Lars Hernquist , Neal Katz

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

We present the Lyssa suite of high-resolution cosmological simulations of the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest designed for cosmological analyses. These 18 simulations have been run using the Nyx code with $4096^3$ hydrodynamical cells in a 120 Mpc…

{We study biasing as a physical phenomenon by analysing geometrical and clustering properties of density fields of matter and galaxies.} {Our goal is to determine the bias function using a combination of geometrical and power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 J. Einasto , L. J. Liivamägi , I. Suhhonenko , M. Einasto

If a significant fraction of the dark matter in the Universe is made of an ultra-light scalar field, named fuzzy dark matter (FDM) with a mass $m_a$ of the order of $10^{-22}-10^{-21}$ eV, then its de Broglie wavelength is large enough to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-22 Eric Armengaud , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Christophe Yèche , David J. E. Marsh , Julien Baur

We examine the statistics of the low-redshift Ly-alpha forest in an adaptive mesh refinement hydrodynamic cosmological simulation of sufficient volume to include distinct large-scale environments. We compare our HI column density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Stephanie Tonnesen , Britton D. Smith , Juna Kollmeier , Renyue Cen

Observations of the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest in spectra of distant quasars enable us to probe the matter power spectrum at relatively small scales. With several upcoming surveys, it is expected that there will be a many-fold…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Bhaskar Arya , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury , Aseem Paranjape , Prakash Gaikwad

The Lyman-$\alpha$ absorption spectrum associated with photons traversing the intergalactic medium allows us to probe the linear matter power spectrum down to relatively small distance scales. Finding ways of accurately evaluating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 Keith R. Dienes , Fei Huang , Jeff Kost , Brooks Thomas , Hai-Bo Yu

The intergalactic neutral hydrogen which is responsible for the Lyman alpha forest of quasar absorption is a tracer of much larger amounts of ionised hydrogen. The ionised component has yet to be detected directly, but is expected to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rupert A. C. Croft , A. J. Banday , Lars Hernquist

I apply the well controlled Hydro-PM approximation of Gnedin & Hui to model the column density distribution of the Lyman-alpha forest for 25 different flat cosmological scenarios, including variants of the standard CDM, tilted CDM, CDM with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Nickolay Y. Gnedin

The isotropy of the Lyman-alpha forest in real-space uniquely provides a measurement of cosmic geometry at z > 2. The angular diameter distance for which the correlation function along the line of sight and in the transverse direction agree…

I derive up to second order in Eulerian perturbation theory a new relation between the weakly nonlinear density and velocity fields. In the case of unsmoothed fields, density at a given point turns out to be a purely local function of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Michal J. Chodorowski

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

The absorption by neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM) produces the Ly$\alpha$ forest in the spectra of quasars. The Ly$\alpha$ forest absorbers have a broad distribution of neutral hydrogen column density $N_{\rm HI}$ and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 Li Yang , Zheng Zheng , T. -S. Kim

High redshift measurements of the baryonic acoustic oscillation scale (BAO) from large Ly-alpha forest surveys represent the next frontier of dark energy studies. As part of this effort, efficient simulations of the BAO signature from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Bradley Greig , James S. Bolton , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

Cosmological parameters can be measured by comparing peculiar velocities with those predicted from a galaxy density field. Previous work has tested the accuracy of this approach with N-body simulations, but generally on idealised mock…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-27 Amber M. Hollinger , Michael J. Hudson