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When measuring the one-dimensional power spectrum of the Ly$\alpha$ forest, it is common to measure the power spectrum in flux fluctuations red-ward of the Ly$\alpha$ emission of quasars and subtract this power from the measurements of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-13 Vid Iršič , Anže Slosar

We make forecasts for the constraining power of the 1D Wavelet Scattering Transform (WST) when used with a Lyman-$\alpha$ forest cosmology survey. Using mock simulations and a Fisher matrix, we show that there is considerable cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-05 Hurum Maksora Tohfa , Simeon Bird , Ming-Feng Ho , Mahdi Qezlou , Martin Fernandez

We present a new measurement of the Ly${\alpha}$ forest power spectrum at $1.8 < z < 3.4$ using 74 Keck/HIRES and VLT/UVES high-resolution, high-S/N quasar spectra. We developed a custom pipeline to measure the power spectrum and its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-03 Michael Walther , Joseph F. Hennawi , Hector Hiss , Jose Oñorbe , Khee-Gan Lee , Alberto Rorai , John O'Meara

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 perform an analysis of the full shapes of Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest correlation functions measured from the first data release (DR1) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). Our analysis focuses on measuring the…

The complex geometry of the Ly$\alpha$ forest data has motivated the use of various two-point statistics as alternatives to the three-dimensional power spectrum ($P_{\mathrm{3D}}$), which carries cosmological information in Fourier space.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 N. G. Karaçaylı , P. L. Taylor

Cosmological studies of the Lyman-Alpha (Lya) forest typically constrain parameters using two-point statistics. However, higher-order statistics, such as the three-point function (or its Fourier counterpart, the bispectrum) offer additional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Roger de Belsunce , James M. Sullivan , Patrick McDonald

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 investigate the possibility of constraining primordial non-Gaussianity using the 3D bispectrum of Ly-alpha forest. The strength of the quadratic non-Gaussian correction to an otherwise Gaussian primordial gravitational field is assumed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-19 Dhiraj Kumar Hazra , Tapomoy Guha Sarkar

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 Lyman-$\beta$ forest refers to a region in the spectra of distant quasars that lies between the rest-frame Lyman-$\beta$ and Lyman-$\gamma$ emissions. The forest in this region is dominated by a combination of absorption due to resonant…

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…

The distribution of absorption lines in the spectra of distant quasars, called the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly-$\alpha$) forest, is a unique probe of cosmology and the intergalactic medium at high redshifts and small scales. The statistical power of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Roger de Belsunce , Mikhail M. Ivanov , James M. Sullivan , Kazuyuki Akitsu , Shi-Fan Chen

The Lyman-$\alpha$ forest offers a unique avenue for studying the distribution of matter in the high redshift universe and extracting precise constraints on the nature of dark matter, neutrino masses, and other $\Lambda$CDM extensions.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-29 Laura Cabayol-Garcia , Jonás Chaves-Montero , Andreu Font-Ribera , Christian Pedersen

The second data release (DR2) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), containing data from the first three years of observations, doubles the number of Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest spectra in DR1 and it provides the…

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…

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