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The low-redshift evolution of the intergalactic medium is investigated using hydrodynamic cosmological simulations. The assumed cosmological model is a critical density cold dark matter universe. The imposed uniform background of ionizing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 T. Theuns , A. Leonard , G. Efstathiou

We quantify the impact of massive neutrinos on the statistics of low density regions in the intergalactic medium (IGM) as probed by the Lyman-alpha forest at redshifts z=2.2--4. Based on mock but realistic quasar (QSO) spectra extracted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Mark Vogelsberger , Matteo Viel , Abraham Loeb

This study sets new constraints on Cold+Warm Dark Matter (CWDM) models by leveraging the small-scale suppression of structure formation imprinted in the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest. Using the Sherwood-Relics suite, we extract high-fidelity flux…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-29 Olga Garcia-Gallego , Vid Iršič , Martin G. Haehnelt , Matteo Viel , James S. Bolton

We present a probabilistic multiphysics inversion based on Bayesian inference with trans-dimensional models. We jointly consider magnetotelluric, receiver function, and Rayleigh-wave dispersion data to infer one-dimensional lithospheric…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-10-20 P. Shahsavari , J. Dettmer , M. J. Unsworth , A. Schaeffer

We present a search for spatial and redshift correlations in a 2 A resolution spectroscopic survey of the Lyman alpha forest at 2.15 < z < 3.37 toward ten QSOs concentrated within a 1-degree diameter field. We find a signal at 2.7 sigma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. M. Williger , A. Smette , C. Hazard , J. A. Baldwin , R. G. McMahon

We explore the possibility of retrieving cosmological information from 21-cm tomographic data at intermediate redshift. The first step in our approach consists of training an encoder, composed of several three dimensional convolutional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-30 Sambatra Andrianomena

We present a new analytic approach to describe large scale structure formation in the mildly non-linear regime. The central object of the method is the time-dependent probability distribution function generating correlators of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-09 Diego Blas , Mathias Garny , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Sergey Sibiryakov

Redshift-space clustering anisotropies caused by cosmic peculiar velocities provide a powerful probe to test the gravity theory on large scales. However, to extract unbiased physical constraints, the clustering pattern has to be modelled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-28 Federico Marulli , Alfonso Veropalumbo , Lauro Moscardini , Andrea Cimatti , Klaus Dolag

Studying the matter distribution in the universe through the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest allows us to constrain small-scale physics in the high-redshift regime. Spectroscopic quasar surveys are generating increasingly large datasets that require…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-23 Josue De-Santiago , Rafael Gutiérrez-Balboa , Gustavo Niz , Alma X. González-Morales

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

We revisit the issue of non-parametric gravitational lens reconstruction and present a new method to obtain the cluster mass distribution using strong lensing data without using any prior information on the underlying mass. The method…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 J. M. Diego , P. Protopapas , H. B Sandvik , M. Tegmark

We introduce a new set of large scale, high resolution hydrodynamical simulations of the intergalactic medium: the Sherwood simulation suite. These are performed in volumes 10^3-160^3 h^-3 comoving Mpc^{3}, span almost four orders of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 James S. Bolton , Ewald Puchwein , Debora Sijacki , Martin G. Haehnelt , Tae-Sun Kim , Avery Meiksin , John A. Regan , Matteo Viel

We propose a novel method for multiple clustering that assumes a co-clustering structure (partitions in both rows and columns of the data matrix) in each view. The new method is applicable to high-dimensional data. It is based on a…

We introduce a Bayesian solution to the problem of inferring the density profile of strong gravitational lenses when the lens galaxy may contain multiple dark or faint substructures. The source and lens models are based on a superposition…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-12 Brendon J. Brewer , David Huijser , Geraint F. Lewis

Observations of the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest from spectroscopic surveys such as BOSS/eBOSS, or the ongoing DESI, offer a unique window to study the growth of structure on megaparsec scales. Interpretation of these measurements is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-09 Christian Pedersen , Andreu Font-Ribera , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

The simplest flavor of the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structure is based on Newtonian equations and describes the nonlinear matter density and velocity using Einstein-de-Sitter kernels. Even in the presence of massive neutrinos,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Christian Fidler , Julien Lesgourgues , Antonia Mattes , Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Simon Neuland

We compute the 3D cross-correlation between the absorption of the $z\sim 2.3$ Lyman-alpha forest measured by the COSMOS Lyman-Alpha Mapping And Tomography Observations (CLAMATO) survey, and 1642 foreground galaxies with spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Benjamin Zhang , Khee-Gan Lee , Andrei Cuceu , Andreu Font-Ribera , Rieko Momose

We have measured the transmission of the Lyman alpha forest produced by neutral hydrogen scattering in the intergalactic medium between redshifts 2 and 6.3 using high signal to noise, high resolution (R > 5000) observations of 50 quasars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Antoinette Songaila

We present methods to rigorously extract parameter combinations that are constrained by data from posterior distributions. The standard approach uses linear methods that apply to Gaussian distributions. We show the limitations of the linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Tara Dacunha , Marco Raveri , Minsu Park , Cyrille Doux , Bhuvnesh Jain

Exploring the free-energy landscape along reaction coordinates or system parameters $\lambda$ is central to many studies of high-dimensional model systems in physics, e.g. large molecules or spin glasses. In simulations this usually…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-05 Viveca Lindahl , Jack Lidmar , Berk Hess