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The power spectrum of transmitted flux in the Ly$\alpha$ forest in spectra of distant quasars gives us an information about matter power spectrum on the smallest spatial scales which is very important for testing of different models of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-15 G. Polinovskyi , M. Malygin

The 21-cm forest, composed of spectral absorption features from high-redshift background radio sources, provides a unique probe for studying small-scale structures during the epoch of reionization. It is particularly sensitive to detecting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-11 Yue Shao , Tian-Yang Sun , Meng-Lin Zhao , Xin Zhang

We present new measurements of the flux power-spectrum P(k) of the $z<0.5$ HI Lyman-$\alpha$ forest spanning scales k ~ 0.001-0.1 s/km. These results were derived from 65 far ultraviolet quasar spectra (resolution R~18000) observed with the…

We present new methods to minimize the systematic and random errors for measuring the transmission power spectrum from the Lyman-alpha forest. Sources of systematic errors explored include metal line contamination and continuum-fitting. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Lam Hui , Scott Burles , Uros Seljak , Robert E. Rutledge , Eugene Magnier , David Tytler

We investigate Lyman-alpha forest flux statistics in mixed fuzzy dark matter (FDM) and cold dark matter (CDM) cosmologies using the Fluctuating Gunn-Peterson Approximation (FGPA) applied to hybrid Schr\"odinger-Poisson and N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Yourong Frank Wang

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is a massively multiplexed fiber-fed spectrograph that will make the next major advance in dark energy in the timeframe 2018-2022. On the Mayall telescope, DESI will obtain spectra and…

We demonstrate that the lyman alpha forest flux power spectrum of ``randomised'' QSO absorption spectra is comparable in shape and amplitude to the flux power spectrum of the original observed spectra. In the randomised spectra a random…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Viel , M. G. Haehnelt , R. F. Carswell , T. -S. Kim

We explore possibility of using the three dimensional bispectra of the Ly-alpha forest and the redshifted 21-cm signal from the post-reionization epoch to constrain primordial non-Gaussianity. Both these fields map out the large scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-04 Tapomoy Guha Sarkar , Dhiraj Kumar Hazra

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 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

Large-scale structure distorts the images of background galaxies, which allows one to measure directly the projected distribution of dark matter in the universe and determine its power spectrum. Here we address the question of how to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Uros Seljak

We present an improved analytical model to predict the Lyman-alpha forest at the field level in redshift space from the dark matter field, expanding upon the widely-used Fluctuating Gunn-Peterson approximation (FGPA). In particular, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-25 Francesco Sinigaglia , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Kentaro Nagamine , Yuri Oku , Andrés Balaguera-Antolínez

The Lyman-alpha forest provides strong constraints on both cosmological parameters and intergalactic medium astrophysics, which are forecast to improve further with the next generation of surveys including eBOSS and DESI. As is generic in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-19 Keir K. Rogers , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen , Simeon Bird , Licia Verde , Andreu Font-Ribera

We combine the Ly-alpha forest power spectrum (LYA) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and high resolution spectra with cosmic microwave background (CMB) including 3-year WMAP, and supernovae (SN) and galaxy clustering constraints to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Uros Seljak , Anze Slosar , Patrick McDonald

We present an effective field theory (EFT) approach to extract fundamental cosmological parameters from the Lyman-alpha forest flux fluctuations as an alternative to the standard simulation-based techniques. As a first application, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-21 Mikhail M. Ivanov , Michael W. Toomey , Naim Göksel Karaçaylı

Numerical hydrodynamical simulations have proven a successful means of reproducing many of the statistical properties of the Lyman-Alpha forest as measured in high redshift quasar spectra. Pseudo-hydrodynamical methods based only on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-18 A. Meiksin , M. White

One of the primary challenges in enabling the scientific potential of 21 cm intensity mapping at the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is the separation of astrophysical foreground contamination. Recent works have claimed that Gaussian process…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-29 Nicholas Kern , Adrian Liu

Combining different observational probes, such as galaxy clustering and weak lensing, is a promising technique for unveiling the physics of the Universe with upcoming dark energy experiments. The galaxy redshift sample from the Dark Energy…