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We present the Lyman-$\alpha$ flux power spectrum measurements of the XQ-100 sample of quasar spectra obtained in the context of the European Southern Observatory Large Programme "Quasars and their absorption lines: a legacy survey of the…

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…

Observations of redshifted Lyman alpha forest absorption in the spectra of quasistellar objects (QSOs) provide a highly sensitive probe of the distribution of gaseous matter in the universe. Over the past two decades optical spectroscopy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Michael Rauch

We use LUQAS, a sample of 27 high resolution high signal-to-noise UVES quasar (QSO) spectra (Kim et al. 2004), and the Croft et al. (2002) sample together with a set of high resolution large box size hydro-dynamical simulations run with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Matteo Viel

We use 2167 Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) quasar spectra to search for low-density oxygen in the Intergalactic Medium (IGM). Oxygen absorption is detected on a pixel-by-pixel basis by its correlation with Lyman-alpha forest absorption. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Matthew M. Pieri , Stephan Frank , Smita Mathur , David H. Weinberg , Donald G. York , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer

The squeezed-limit bispectrum, which is generated by nonlinear gravitational evolution as well as inflationary physics, measures the correlation of three wavenumbers, in the configuration where one wavenumber is much smaller than the other…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Chi-Ting Chiang , Agnieszka M. Cieplak , Fabian Schmidt , Anže Slosar

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

The highly anisotropic nature of the Lyman-alpha (Ly$\alpha$) forest data introduces a complex survey window function that complicates the measurement of the three-dimensional power spectrum ($P_{\mathrm{3D}}$). In this paper, we present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-19 N. G. Karaçaylı , C. M. Hirata

We use the Ly-$\alpha$ Mass Association Scheme (LyMAS; Peirani et al. 2014) to predict cross-correlations at $z=2.5$ between dark matter halos and transmitted flux in the Ly-$\alpha$ forest, and compare to cross-correlations measured for…

Joint studies of imaging and spectroscopic samples, informed by theory and simulations, offer the potential for comprehensive tests of the cosmological model over redshifts z<1.5. Spectroscopic galaxy samples at these redshifts can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-15 Kyle Dawson , Andrew Hearin , Katrin Heitmann , Mustapha Ishak , Johannes Ulf Lange , Martin White , Rongpu Zhou

Several cosmological measurements have attained significant levels of maturity and accuracy over the last decade. Continuing this trend, future observations promise measurements of the statistics of the cosmic mass distribution at an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , David Higdon , Charles Nakhleh , Brian Williams

The fluctuating Gunn-Peterson approximation (FGPA) is a commonly-used method to generate mock Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest absorption skewers at Cosmic Noon ($z\gtrsim 2$) from the matter-density field of $N$-body simulations without…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Robin Kooistra , Khee-Gan Lee , Benjamin Horowitz

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

We present constraints on cosmic structure growth from the analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing with galaxies from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1. We analyze four samples drawn from the…

We measure the intergalactic medium (IGM) opacity in the Ly$\alpha$ as well as in the Ly$\beta$ forest along $19$ quasar sightlines between $5.5\lesssim z_{\rm abs}\lesssim 6.1$, probing the end stages of the reionization epoch. Owing to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-14 Anna-Christina Eilers , Joseph F. Hennawi , Frederick B. Davies , Jose Oñorbe

We present spatial correlations of galaxies and IGM HI in the COSMOS/UltraVISTA 1.62 deg$^2$ field. Our data consist of 13,415 photo-$z$ galaxies at $z\sim2-3$ with $K_s<23.4$ and the Ly$\alpha$ forest absorptions in the background quasar…

The Lyman alpha forest power spectrum has been measured on large scales by the BOSS survey in SDSS-III at $z\sim 2.3$, has been shown to agree well with linear theory predictions, and has provided the first measurement of Baryon Acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 Andreu Arinyo-i-Prats , Jordi Miralda-Escudé , Matteo Viel , Renyue Cen

We examine the Ly-alpha absorber population at z<0.3 detected in spectra of the QSOs PG0953+415 and H1821+643 taken with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. We compare their statistical properties to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Romeel Davé , Todd M. Tripp

Galactic outflows are critical to our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution. However the details of the underlying feedback process remain unclear. We compare Ly$\alpha$ observations of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of Lyman…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-23 Andrew S. Chung , Mark Dijkstra , Benedetta Ciardi , Koki Kakiichi , Thorsten Naab

After the successful full-shape analyses of BOSS data using the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure, we investigate what upcoming galaxy surveys might achieve. We introduce a ``perturbativity prior" that ensures that loop terms…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Diogo Bragança , Yaniv Donath , Leonardo Senatore , Henry Zheng