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We derive and numerically implement an algorithm for estimating the 3D power spectrum of the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly-$\alpha$) forest flux fluctuations. The algorithm exploits the unique geometry of Ly-$\alpha$ forest data to efficiently measure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Andreu Font-Ribera , Patrick McDonald , Anže Slosar

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

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 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

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

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

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

Observations of the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest from spectroscopic surveys such as BOSS/eBOSS, or the ongoing DESI, offer a unique window to study the growth of structure on megaparsec scales. Interpretation of these measurements is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-09 Christian Pedersen , Andreu Font-Ribera , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

The Lyman-alpha forest is a unique probe of large-scale matter density fluctuations at high redshift z > 2. We measure the one-dimensional Lyman-alpha forest power spectrum using the first data provided by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Corentin Ravoux

The Ly$\alpha$ forest, a series of HI absorption lines in the quasar spectra, is a powerful tool for probing the large-scale structure of the intergalactic medium. Its three-dimensional (3D) correlation and cross-correlations with quasars…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-23 Koichiro Nakashima , Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Kentaro Nagamine , Yuri Oku , Ikkoh Shimizu

Current results from the Lyman alpha forest assume that the primordial power spectrum of density perturbations follows a simple power law form, with running. We present the first analysis of Lyman alpha data to study the effect of relaxing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-16 Simeon Bird , Hiranya V. Peiris , Matteo Viel , Licia Verde

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

Measurements of the Ly$\alpha$ forest based on large numbers of quasar spectra from sky surveys such as SDSS/eBOSS accurately probe the distribution of matter on small scales and thus provide important constraints on several ingredients of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-22 Michael Walther , Eric Armengaud , Corentin Ravoux , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Christophe Yèche , Zarija Lukić

We present the Lyssa suite of high-resolution cosmological simulations of the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest designed for cosmological analyses. These 18 simulations have been run using the Nyx code with $4096^3$ hydrodynamical cells in a 120 Mpc…

We measure the power spectrum, P_F(k,z), of the transmitted flux in the Ly-alpha forest using 3035 high redshift quasar spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. This sample is almost two orders of magnitude larger than any previously…

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

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
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