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Lyman limit and damped Lyman-alpha absorption systems probe the distribution of collapsed, cold gas at high redshift. Numerical simulations that incorporate gravity and gas dynamics can predict the abundance of such absorbers in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Jeffrey P. Gardner , Neal Katz , Lars Hernquist , David H. Weinberg

(abridged) We present an effective implementation of analytical calculations of the Lyalpha opacity distribution of the Intergalactic Medium (IGM) along multiple lines of sight (LOS) to distant quasars in a cosmological setting. This method…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Viel , S. Matarrese , H. J. Mo , M. G. Haehnelt , Tom Theuns

Based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 16, we have detected the large-scale structure of Ly$\alpha$ emission in the Universe at redshifts $z = 2$--3.5 by cross-correlating quasar positions and Ly$\alpha$ emission imprinted in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-28 Xiaojing Lin , Zheng Zheng , Zheng Cai

The HI Parkes All Sky Survey (HIPASS) galaxy catalogue is cross-correlated with known low redshift, low column density (N_HI <10^15 cm^-2) Lyman-alpha absorbers from the literature. The redshift-space correlation is found to be similar in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Emma V. Ryan-Weber

The connection between galaxies and dark matter halos is often quantified using the stellar mass-halo mass (SMHM) relation. Optical and near-infrared imaging surveys have led to a broadly consistent picture of the evolving SMHM relation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 Andrew B. Newman , Mahdi Qezlou , Nima Chartab , Gwen C. Rudie , Guillermo A. Blanc , Simeon Bird , Andrew J. Benson , Daniel D. Kelson , Brian C. Lemaux

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…

We present predictions of the correlation between the Lyman-alpha forest absorption in quasar spectra and the mass within \sim 5 Mpc/h (comoving) of the line of sight, using fully hydrodynamic and hydro-PM numerical simulations of the cold…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Patrick McDonald , Jordi Miralda-Escudé , Renyue Cen

We present the first spectroscopic measurement of the spatial cross-correlation function between damped Lyman alpha systems (DLAs) and Lyman break galaxies (LBGs). We obtained deep u'BVRI images of nine QSO fields with 11 known z ~ 3 DLAs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Cooke , A. M. Wolfe , E. Gawiser , J. X. Prochaska

We use 211 galaxy spectra from our survey for Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) associated with 11 damped Lyman alpha systems (DLAs) to measure the three-dimensional LBG auto-correlation and DLA-LBG cross-correlation functions with the primary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Jeff Cooke , Arthur M. Wolfe , Eric Gawiser , Jason X. Prochaska

We investigate the cross-correlation signal between 21cm intensity mapping maps and the Lyman-alpha forest in the fully non-linear regime using state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations. The cross-correlation signal between these fields can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-06 Isabella P. Carucci , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Matteo Viel

We propose a new method for fitting the full-shape of the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest three-dimensional (3D) correlation function in order to measure the Alcock-Paczynski (AP) effect. Our method preserves the robustness of baryon…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Andrei Cuceu , Andreu Font-Ribera , Benjamin Joachimi , Seshadri Nadathur

We cross-correlate the positions of damped Lyman-$\alpha$ systems (DLAs) and their parent quasar catalog with a convergence map derived from the Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature data. We make consistent measurements of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-27 David Alonso , Joseph Colosimo , Andreu Font-Ribera , Anže Slosar

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…

The cross-correlation of the Ly-alpha forest and redshifted 21-cm emission has recently been proposed as an observational tool for mapping out the large-scale structures in the post-reionization era z < 6. This has a significant advantage…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-06 Tapomoy Guha Sarkar , Somnath Bharadwaj

We present the first clustering measurement of Strong Blended Lyman $\alpha$ (SBLA) absorption systems by measuring their cross-correlation with the Lyman $\alpha$ forest. SBLAs are a new population of absorbers detected within the Lyman…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-18 Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols , Matthew M. Pieri , Michael Blomqvist , Sean Morrison , Debopam Som , Andrei Cuceu

We explore the feasibility of using Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forests to calibrate the ensemble redshift distribution of the high-redshift tail ($2<z<3$) of photometric galaxies. We use \texttt{CoLoRe} simulations to create mock DESI…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Qianjun Hang , Laura Casas , William d'Assignies , Wynne Turner , Andreu Font-Ribera , Benjamin Joachimi

The quasar in the Hubble Deep Field South (HDFS), J2233-606 (z=2.23) has been exhaustively observed by ground based telescopes and by the STIS spectrograph on board the Hubble Space Telescope at low, medium and high resolution in the…

The distribution of absorption lines in the spectra of distant quasars, called the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly-$\alpha$) forest, is a unique probe of cosmology and the intergalactic medium at high redshifts and small scales. The statistical power of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Roger de Belsunce , Mikhail M. Ivanov , James M. Sullivan , Kazuyuki Akitsu , Shi-Fan Chen

We study the clustering of matter in the intergalactic medium from the Lyman-alpha forests seen in the spectra of pairs or groups of z ~ 2 quasars observed with FORS2 and UVES at the VLT-UT2 Kueyen ESO telescope. The sample consists of five…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Rollinde , P. Petitjean , C. Pichon , S. Colombi , B. Aracil , V. D'Odorico , M. G. Haehnelt

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