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We investigate the metal species associated with the Ly$\alpha$ forest in the eBOSS quasar spectra. Metal absorption lines are revealed in the stacked spectra from cross-correlating the selected Ly$\alpha$ absorbers in the forest and the…

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We investigate the dependence on data quality of quasar properties measured from the CIV emission line region at high redshifts. Our measurements come from 32 epochs of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Reverberation Mapping Project…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-08 K. D. Denney , Keith Horne , W. N. Brandt , Luis C. Ho , B. M. Peterson , Gordon T. Richards , Yue Shen , J. R. Trump , J. Ge

We present a measurement of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale at redshift $z=2.35$ from the three-dimensional correlation of Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest absorption and quasars. The study uses 266,590 quasars in the redshift…

We present a measurement of the 1D Ly$\alpha$ forest flux power spectrum, using the complete Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) and first extended-BOSS (eBOSS) quasars at $z_{\rm qso}>2.1$, corresponding to the fourteenth data…

We present tomography of the circum-galactic metal distribution at redshift 1.7 to 4.5 derived from echellete spectroscopy of binary quasars. We find CIV systems at similar redshifts in paired sightlines more often than expected for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-12 Crystal L. Martin , Evan Scannapieco , Sara L. Ellison , Joeseph F. Hennawi , S. G. Djorgovski , Amanda P. Fournier

We present high S/N echelle spectra of the recently discovered ultraluminous QSO APM 08279+5255 and use these data to re-examine the abundance of Carbon in Ly alpha forest clouds. In agreement with previous work, we find that approximately…

We present a total of 4784 unique broad absorption line quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Third Data Release. An automated algorithm was used to match a continuum to each quasar and to identify regions of flux at least 10% below the…

We have investigated the distribution and evolution of ~3100 intergalactic HI absorbers with HI column densities log N(HI) = [12.75, 17.0] at 1.9 < z < 3.2, using 18 high resolution, high S/N quasar spectra obtained from the ESO VLT/UVES…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Tae-Sun Kim , Adrian M. Partl , Robert F. Carswell , Volker Müller

We study the cross-correlation between the Planck CMB lensing convergence map and the eBOSS quasar overdensity obtained from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) IV, in the redshift range $0.9 < z < 2.2$. We detect the CMB lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-05 Jiashu Han , Simone Ferraro , Elena Giusarma , Shirley Ho

We present 0.5-8.0 keV Chandra observations of six bright quasars that represent extrema in quasar emission-line properties -- three quasars each with small and large blueshifts of the CIV emission line with respect to the systemic redshift…

We present the transverse flux correlation function of the Lyman-alpha forest in quasar absorption spectra at z~2.1 from VLT-FORS and VLT-UVES observations of a total of 32 pairs of quasars; 26 pairs with separations in the range…

We forecast the prospects for cross-correlating future line intensity mapping (LIM) surveys with the current and future Ly-$\alpha$ forest data. We use large cosmological hydrodynamic simulations to model the expected emission signal for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-03 Mahdi Qezlou , Simeon Bird , Adam Lidz , Guochao Sun , Andrew B. Newman , Gwen C. Rudie , Yueying Ni , Rupert Croft , Tiziana Di Matteo

We present a large high-resolution study of the distribution and evolution of CIV absorbers, including the weakest population with equivalent widths $W_r<0.3$~{\AA}. By searching 369 high-resolution, high signal-to-noise spectra of quasars…

We investigate the properties of triply ionized Carbon (CIV) in the Intergalactic Medium using a set of high-resolution and large box-size cosmological hydrodynamic simulations of a $\Lambda$CDM model. We rely on a modification of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 E. Tescari , M. Viel , V. D'Odorico , S. Cristiani , F. Calura , S. Borgani , L. Tornatore

We have analyzed the properties of metals in the high redshift intergalactic medium using a novel objective pixel optical depth technique on a sample of extremely high signal-to-noise Keck HIRES and ESI spectra of 26 quasars between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Antoinette Songaila

We search for OVI absorption in a Keck HIRES spectrum of the z=3.62 quasar Q1422+231. Comparison of CIV measurements to cosmological simulations shows that \lya forest absorbers with N_HI > 10^{14.5} have [C/H]~=-2.5, for the UV background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Romeel Davé , Uffe Hellsten , Lars Hernquist , Neal Katz , David Weinberg

We explore the expected galaxy environments of CIV absorbers at z>5 using the Technicolor Dawn simulations. These simulations reproduce the observed history of reionization, the z~6 galaxy stellar mass function, the Ly$\alpha$ forest…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-26 Kristian Finlator , Caitlin Doughty , Zheng Cai , Gonzalo Díaz

We present the detection of a rare case of dramatic strengthening in the UV absorption profiles in the spectrum of the quasar J115122.14+020426.3 between observations ~2.86 years apart in the quasar rest-frame. A 2001 spectrum from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Paola Rodríguez Hidalgo , Michael Eracleous , Jane Charlton , Fred Hamann , Michael Murphy , Daniel Nestor