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In the WMAP era of high precision cosmology an accurate determination of the matter power spectrum from lyman-alpha forest data becomes crucial. When combining the matter power spectrum derived from CMB experiments with that inferred from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matteo Viel

The halo occupation distribution (HOD) approach has proven to be an effective method for modeling galaxy clustering and bias. In this approach, galaxies of a given type are probabilistically assigned to individual halos in N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Juliana Kwan , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Hal Finkel , Nick Frontiere , Adrian Pope

We discuss the implementation of Bayesian inversion methods in order to recover the properties of the intergalactic medium from observations of the neutral hydrogen Lyman-$\alpha$ absorptions observed in the spectra of high redshift quasars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 C. Pichon , J. L. Vergely , E. Rollinde , S. Colombi , P. Petitjean

We present a Neural Network based emulator for the galaxy redshift-space power spectrum that enables several orders of magnitude acceleration in the galaxy clustering parameter inference, while preserving 3$\sigma$ accuracy better than…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Svyatoslav Trusov , Pauline Zarrouk , Shaun Cole

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…

We use a cosmological hydrodynamic simulation of a cold dark matter universe to investigate theoretically the relationship between high redshift galaxies and the Lyman=alpha forest at redshift z=3. Galaxies in the simulation are surrounded…

We measure the effective optical depth in the Lyman-alpha (Ly$\alpha$) forest using 40,035 quasar spectra from the Twelfth Data Release (DR12) of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of SDSS-IV. A rigorous selection based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Vikrant Kamble , Kyle Dawson , Hélion du Mas des Bourboux , Julian Bautista , Donald P. Schneider

We introduce a new cosmic emulator for the matter power spectrum covering eight cosmological parameters. Targeted at optical surveys, the emulator provides accurate predictions out to a wavenumber k~5/Mpc and redshift z<=2. Besides covering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Earl Lawrence , Katrin Heitmann , Juliana Kwan , Amol Upadhye , Derek Bingham , Salman Habib , David Higdon , Adrian Pope , Hal Finkel , Nicholas Frontiere

We present an interpretable emulator for the linear matter power spectrum (MPS) in the standard cosmological model $\Lambda$CDM, constructed via a physics-informed symbolic regression framework. By combining domain knowledge with a machine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 J. Bayron Orjuela-Quintana , Domenico Sapone , Savvas Nesseris

We present a set of ultra-large particle-mesh simulations of the LyA forest targeted at understanding the imprint of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the inter-galactic medium. We use 9 dark matter only simulations which can, for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Martin White , Adrian Pope , Jordan Carlson , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib , Patricia Fasel , David Daniel , Zarija Lukic

We evaluate the performance of the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest weak gravitational lensing estimator of Metcalf et al. on forest data from hydrodynamic simulations and ray-traced simulated lensing potentials. We compare the results to those…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-30 Patrick Shaw , Rupert A. C. Croft , R. Benton Metcalf

We investigate the properties of Damped Lyman-alpha systems (DLAs) using high-resolution and large box-size cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of a LambdaCDM model. The numerical code used is a modification of GADGET-2 with a self…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Edoardo Tescari , Matteo Viel , Luca Tornatore , Stefano Borgani

We present a method to make predictions with sets of correlated data values, in this case QSO flux spectra. We predict the continuum in the Lyman-Alpha forest of a QSO, from 1020 -- 1216 A, using the spectrum of that QSO from 1216 -- 1600 A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nao Suzuki , David Tytler , David Kirkman , John M. O'Meara , Dan Lubin

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 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

The \lya forest at high redshifts is a powerful probe of reionization. Modeling and observing this imprint comes with significant technical challenges: inhomogeneous reionization must be taken into account while simultaneously being able to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-21 Paulo Montero-Camacho , Christopher M. Hirata , Paul Martini , Klaus Honscheid

The Lyman-alpha forest is a portion of the observed light spectrum of distant galactic nuclei which allows us to probe remote regions of the Universe that are otherwise inaccessible. The observed Lyman-alpha forest of a quasar light…

We aim to construct a machine-learning approach that allows for a pixel-by-pixel reconstruction of the intergalactic medium (IGM) density field for various warm dark matter (WDM) models using the Lyman-alpha forest. With this regression…

Simulation based inference has seen increasing interest in the past few years as a promising approach to model the non linear scales of galaxy clustering. The common approach using Gaussian process is to train an emulator over the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 Tyann Dumerchat , Julian Bautista

Reconstruction techniques for intrinsic quasar continua are crucial for the precision study of Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly-$\alpha$) and Lyman-$\beta$ (Ly-$\beta$) transmission at $z>5.0$, where the $\lambda<1215 A$ emission of quasars is nearly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-18 S. E. I. Bosman , D. Ďurovčíková , F. B. Davies , A. C. Eilers