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Observations of the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest in distant quasar spectra with upcoming surveys are expected to provide significantly larger and higher-quality datasets. To interpret these datasets, it is imperative to develop efficient…

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We perform for the first time full simulation-based inference on the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest 1D power spectrum. In particular, we consider the prediction of the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest $P_{\rm 1D}(k)$ at $2.0<z<3.5$ from the CAMELS cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Francesco Sinigaglia , Patricia Iglesias-Navarro , Matteo Viel

Cosmological hydrodynamic simulations can accurately predict the properties of the intergalactic medium (IGM), but only under the condition of retaining high spatial resolution necessary to resolve density fluctuations in the IGM. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Daniele Sorini , José Oñorbe , Zarija Lukić , Joseph F. Hennawi

Hydrodynamical cosmological simulations are a powerful tool for accurately predicting the properties of the intergalactic medium (IGM) and for producing mock skies that can be compared against observational data. However, the need to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-08 Cooper Jacobus , Peter Harrington , Zarija Lukić

Numerical hydrodynamical simulations are used to predict the expected absorption properties of the Lyman-Alpha forest for a variety of Cold Dark Matter dominated cosmological scenarios: CHDM, OCDM, LCDM, SCDM, and tCDM. Synthetic spectra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. Meiksin , G. Bryan , M. Machacek

In recent years, the Lyman-$\alpha$ absorption observed in the spectra of high-redshift quasars has been used as a tracer of large-scale structure by means of the three-dimensional Lyman-$\alpha$ forest auto-correlation function at redshift…

The inference of astrophysical and cosmological properties from the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest conventionally relies on summary statistics of the transmission field that carry useful but limited information. We present a deep learning framework…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-11 Parth Nayak , Michael Walther , Daniel Gruen , Sreyas Adiraju

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

Three-dimensional correlations of the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest and cross correlations between the Ly$\alpha$ forest and quasars have been measured on large scales, allowing a precise measurement of the baryon acoustic oscillation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-04 Jahmour J. Givans , Andreu Font-Ribera , Anže Slosar , Louise Seeyave , Christian Pedersen , Keir K. Rogers , Mathias Garny , Diego Blas , Vid Iršič

We present the first observations of foreground Lyman-$\alpha$ forest absorption from high-redshift galaxies, targeting 24 star-forming galaxies (SFGs) with $z\sim 2.3-2.8$ within a $5' \times 15'$ region of the COSMOS field. The transverse…

Maps of the large-scale structure of the Universe at redshifts 2-4 can be made with the Lyman-alpha forest which are complementary to low redshift galaxy surveys. We apply the Wiener interpolation method of Caucci et al. to construct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-08 Melih Ozbek , Rupert A. C. Croft , Nishikanta Khandai

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…

Massive spectroscopic surveys of high-redshift quasars yield large numbers of correlated Lyman {\alpha} absorption spectra that can be used to measure large-scale structure. Simulations of these surveys are required to accurately interpret…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Andreu Font-Ribera , Patrick McDonald , Jordi Miralda-Escudé

We study the statistics of the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest in a flat LCDM cosmology with the N-body + Eulerian hydrodynamics code Nyx. We produce a suite of simulations, covering the observationally relevant redshift range $2 \leq z \leq 4$. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-24 Zarija Lukić , Casey Stark , Peter Nugent , Martin White , Avery Meiksin , Ann Almgren

The correlation between Lyman-alpha absorption in the spectra of quasar pairs can be used to measure the transverse distance scale at z~2, which is sensitive to the cosmological constant (Omega_Lambda) or other forms of vacuum energy. Using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Patrick McDonald

We test a method to reduce unwanted sample variance when predicting Lyman-$\alpha$ (ly$\alpha$) forest power spectra from cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. Sample variance arises due to sparse sampling of modes on large scales and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-16 Lauren Anderson , Andrew Pontzen , Andreu Font-Ribera , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Keir K. Rogers , Shy Genel

We propose a method for recovering the shape of the mass power spectrum on large scales from the transmission fluctuations of the Lyman-alpha forest, which takes into account directly redshift-space distortions. The procedure, in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Lam Hui

High redshift measurements of the baryonic acoustic oscillation scale (BAO) from large Ly-alpha forest surveys represent the next frontier of dark energy studies. As part of this effort, efficient simulations of the BAO signature from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Bradley Greig , James S. Bolton , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

Our goal in this paper is to test some popular dark matter models by Ly-alpha forest in QSO spectra. Recent observations of the size and velocity of Ly-alpha forest clouds have indicated that the Ly-alpha absorption is probably not given by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Hongguang BI , Jian GE , Li-Zhi FANG