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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 integration of artificial intelligence into next-generation wireless networks necessitates the accurate construction of radio maps (RMs) as a foundational prerequisite for electromagnetic digital twins. A RM provides the digital…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Xiucheng Wang , Yuhao Pan , Nan Cheng

The full-shape correlations of the Lyman alpha (Ly$\alpha$) forest contain a wealth of cosmological information through the Alcock-Paczy\'{n}ski effect. However, these measurements are challenging to model without robustly testing and…

We present an analysis of high-resolution N-body simulations of decaying dark matter cosmologies focusing on the statistical properties of the transmitted Lyman-alpha forest flux in the high-redshift intergalactic medium. In this type of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Mei-Yu Wang , Rupert A. C. Croft , Annika H. G. Peter , Andrew R. Zentner , Chris W. Purcell

We present the second data release of the COSMOS Lyman-Alpha Mapping And Tomography Observations (CLAMATO) Survey conducted with the LRIS spectrograph on the Keck-I telescope. This project used Lyman-alpha forest absorption in the spectra…

The ability to map challenging subarctic environments opens new horizons for robotic deployments in industries such as forestry, surveillance, and open-pit mining. In this paper, we explore possibilities of large-scale lidar mapping in a…

Current analyses of the Lyman-alpha forest assume that the primordial power spectrum of density perturbations obeys a simple power law, a strong theoretical assumption which should be tested. Employing a large suite of numerical simulations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-24 Simeon Bird

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

We introduce FLAME, a machine-learning algorithm designed to fit Voigt profiles to HI Lyman-alpha (Ly$\alpha$) absorption lines using deep convolutional neural networks. FLAME integrates two algorithms: the first determines the number of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-20 Priyanka Jalan , Vikram Khaire , M. Vivek , Prakash Gaikwad

We measure the matter power spectrum from the Lyman-alpha forest of 31 quasar spectra spanning the redshift range of 1.6-3.6. The optical depth, $\tau$, for absorption of the intergalactic medium is obtained from the flux using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Zaroubi , M. Viel , A. Nusser , M. Haehnelt , T. -S. Kim

Recent work has suggested that an additional $\lesssim 6.9 \rm{\, eV}$ per baryon of heating in the intergalactic medium is needed to reconcile hydrodynamical simulations with Lyman-$\alpha$ forest absorption line widths at redshift…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-19 James S. Bolton , Andrea Caputo , Hongwan Liu , Matteo Viel

We measure the three-dimensional power spectrum (P3D) of the transmitted flux in the Lyman-a (Ly-a) forest using the complete extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey data release 16 (eBOSS DR16). This sample consists of 205,012…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-11 Roger de Belsunce , Oliver H. E. Philcox , Vid Irsic , Patrick McDonald , Julien Guy , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille

The amplitude of the ionizing background that pervades the intergalactic medium (IGM) at the end of the epoch of reionization provides a valuable constraint on the emissivity of the sources which reionized the Universe. While measurements…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Frederick B. Davies , Joseph F. Hennawi , Anna-Christina Eilers , Zarija Lukić

Regional rainfall-runoff modeling is an old but still mostly out-standing problem in Hydrological Sciences. The problem currently is that traditional hydrological models degrade significantly in performance when calibrated for multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Frederik Kratzert , Daniel Klotz , Guy Shalev , Günter Klambauer , Sepp Hochreiter , Grey Nearing

The 3D distribution of matter at small scales encodes valuable information about the nature of dark matter and other fundamental physics. A prominent probe of such scales outside galaxies is the Lyman-alpha forest, which studies absorption…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Ivan Ridkokasha , Andres Aramburo-Garcia , Kyrylo Bondarenko , Anastasia Sokolenko , Matthieu Schaller , Alexey Boyarsky

Forest inventories rely on accurate measurements of the diameter at breast height (DBH) for ecological monitoring, resource management, and carbon accounting. While LiDAR-based techniques can achieve centimeter-level precision, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Siming He , Zachary Osman , Fernando Cladera , Dexter Ong , Nitant Rai , Patrick Corey Green , Vijay Kumar , Pratik Chaudhari

Standard supervised learning procedures are validated against a test set that is assumed to have come from the same distribution as the training data. However, in many problems, the test data may have come from a different distribution. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-28 Tim Coleman , Kimberly Kaufeld , Mary Frances Dorn , Lucas Mentch

We present the PRIYA suite of cosmological simulations, based on the code and hydrodynamic model of the ASTRID simulation, and designed for cosmological analyses of the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest. Our simulation suite spans a $9$-dimensional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-04 Simeon Bird , Martin Fernandez , Ming-Feng Ho , Mahdi Qezlou , Reza Monadi , Yueying Ni , Nianyi Chen , Rupert Croft , Tiziana Di Matteo

In recent years, a remarkably simple physical picture of the Lyman-alpha forest has emerged, which allows detailed predictions to be made and turns the forest into a powerful probe of cosmology. We point out ways in which such a picture can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lam Hui

Recently, the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest flux auto-correlation function has been shown to be sensitive to the mean free path of hydrogen-ionizing photons, $\lambda_{\text{mfp}}$, for simulations at $z \geq 5.4$. Measuring…