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Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) has garnered attention as a powerful cosmological probe, with next-generation instruments such as SPHEREx preparing to map the evolution of large-scale structure during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR).…

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We present a semi-analytic model for the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest that is inspired by the Halo Model. This model is built on the absorption line decomposition of the forest. Flux correlations are decomposed into those within each absorption…

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We introduce a framework for the reconstruction of the amplitude, phase and polarisation of an optical vector-field using calibration measurements acquired by an imaging device with an unknown linear transformation. By incorporating…

We present ROCA, a novel end-to-end approach that retrieves and aligns 3D CAD models from a shape database to a single input image. This enables 3D perception of an observed scene from a 2D RGB observation, characterized as a lightweight,…

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High precision cosmological distance measurements towards individual objects such as time delay gravitational lenses or type Ia supernovae are affected by weak lensing perturbations by galaxies and groups along the line of sight. In time…

Implicit surface representations such as the signed distance function (SDF) have emerged as a promising approach for image-based surface reconstruction. However, existing optimization methods assume solid surfaces and are therefore unable…

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We present an alternative, Bayesian method for large-scale reconstruction from observed peculiar velocity data. The method stresses a rigorous treatment of the random errors and it allows extrapolation into poorly sampled regions in real…

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We have measured the distribution function of the flux decrement caused by Lyman alpha forest absorption in a new sample of high resolution QSO spectra. The observations are compared to the results from two simulations of the Lya forest: an…

The Lyman-alpha (Ly$\alpha$) forest at $z \sim 5$ offers a primary probe to constrain the history of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), retaining thermal and ionization signatures imprinted by the reionization process. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-18 Diego González-Hernández , Caitlin Doughty , Molly Wolfson , Joseph F. Hennawi , Zhenyu Jin

Reconstructing high-quality magnetic resonance images (MRI) from undersampled raw data is of great interest from both technical and clinical point of views. To this date, however, it is still a mathematically and computationally challenging…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-01 T. Schmoderer , A. I Aviles-Rivero , V. Corona , N. Debroux , C-B. Schönlieb

Adaptive optics (AO) systems and image reconstruction algorithms are indispensable tools when it comes to high-precision astrometry. In this paper, we analyze the potential of combining both techniques, i.e. by applying image reconstruction…

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Correlations in the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest, both as a function of line of sight separation (1D) and 3D separation, provide a unique window to the distribution of matter at redshifts not accessible by current galaxy surveys.…

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We present predictions for the fluorescent Lyman-alpha emission signature arising from photoionized, optically thick structures in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic (SPH) cosmological simulations of a Lambda-CDM universe using a Monte Carlo…

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In the paper, we introduce an unconstrained analysis model based on the $\ell_{1}-\alpha \ell_{2}$ $(0< \alpha \leq1)$ minimization for the signal and image reconstruction. We develop some new technology lemmas for tight frame, and the…

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The last few years have seen a dramatic improvement in our understanding of the origin of Lyman alpha absorption systems. Hydrodynamic numerical simulations of cold dark matter dominated universes have shown that the many properties of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 George Efstathiou , Joop Schaye , Tom Theuns

We present a method to recover the shape and amplitude of the power spectrum of mass fluctuations, P(k), from observations of the high redshift \lya forest. The method is motivated by the physical picture of the \lya forest that has emerged…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Rupert A. C. Croft , David H. Weinberg , Neal Katz , Lars Hernquist

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 directly measure the evolution of the intergalactic Lyman-alpha effective optical depth, tau_eff, over the redshift range 2<z<4.2 from a sample of 86 high-resolution, high-signal-to-noise quasar spectra obtained with Keck/ESI,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 C. -A. Faucher-Giguere , J. X. Prochaska , A. Lidz , L. Hernquist , M. Zaldarriaga

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…

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