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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

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

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-13 Bhaskar Arya , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury , Aseem Paranjape , Prakash Gaikwad

Interpreting observations of the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest flux power spectrum requires interpolation between a small number of expensive simulations. We present a Gaussian process emulator modelling the 1D flux power spectrum as a function of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-17 Christian Pedersen , Andreu Font-Ribera , Keir K. Rogers , Patrick McDonald , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen , Anže Slosar

We present a suite of cosmological N-body simulations with cold dark matter and baryons aiming at modeling the low-density regions of the IGM as probed by the Lyman-$\alpha$ forests at high redshift. The simulations are designed to match…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Borde , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , G. Rossi , M. Viel , J. Bolton , Ch. Yèche , J. -M. LeGoff , J. Rich

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 Lyman-alpha (Lya) forest is a unique probe of cosmology and the intergalactic medium at high redshift and small scales. The statistical power of the ongoing Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) demands precise theoretical tools…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Roger de Belsunce , Boryana Hadzhiyska , Mikhail M. Ivanov

A sample of eight quasars observed at high resolution and signal-to-noise is used to determine the probability distribution function (PDF), the power spectrum, and the correlation function of the transmitted flux in the \lya forest, in…

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

We extend our super-resolution and emulation framework for cosmological dark matter simulations to include hydrodynamics. We present a two-stage deep learning model to emulate high-resolution (HR-HydroSim) baryonic fields from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-23 Fatemeh Hafezianzadeh , Xiaowen Zhang , Yueying Ni , Rupert A. C. Croft , Tiziana DiMatteo , Mahdi Qezlou , Simeon Bird

Recent Lyman-$\alpha$ forest tomography measurements of the intergalactic medium (IGM) have revealed a wealth of cosmic structures at high redshift ($z\sim 2.5$). In this work, we present the Tomographic Absorption Reconstruction and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-18 Benjamin Horowitz , Khee-Gan Lee , Martin White , Alex Krolewski , Metin Ata

Numerical hydrodynamical simulations have proven a successful means of reproducing many of the statistical properties of the Lyman-Alpha forest as measured in high redshift quasar spectra. Pseudo-hydrodynamical methods based only on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-18 A. Meiksin , M. White

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 use an automated Voigt-profile fitting procedure to extract statistical properties of the Ly$\alpha$ forest in a numerical simulation of an $\Omega=1$, cold dark matter (CDM) universe. Our analysis method is similar to that used in most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Romeel Davé , Lars Hernquist , David H. Weinberg , Neal Katz

Deep learning models are being used for the analysis of parametric statistical models based on simulation-only frameworks. Bayesian models using normalizing flows simulate data from a prior distribution and are composed of two deep neural…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Stefan Böhringer

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

Small-scale correlations measured in the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest encode information about the intergalactic medium and the primordial matter power spectrum. In this article, we present and implement a simple method to measure the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-27 Marie Lynn Abdul-Karim , Eric Armengaud , Guillaume Mention , Solène Chabanier , Corentin Ravoux , Zarija Lukić

We derive an effective field theory (EFT) for cosmological Lyman alpha forest fluctuations valid for the power spectrum at the one-loop order. The ``bottom-up'' EFT expansion at the level of the transmitted flux is identical to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-04 Mikhail M. Ivanov

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…

By exploiting small-scale structure formation probed by Lyman-$\alpha$ forest observations, we study constraints on a model of dark matter from dark sector decay. We compute the phase space distribution of the dark matter and the linear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-30 Si-Yuan Zhao , Yi-Cheng Dai , Wei Liao , Yi-Song Lu