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While the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest traces the large-scale matter distribution over a wide range of redshift, its three-dimensional (3D) clustering at $z < 2$ has not yet been measured. We investigate the prospects for measuring…

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We present a measurement of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale at redshift $z=2.35$ from the three-dimensional correlation of Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest absorption and quasars. The study uses 266,590 quasars in the redshift…

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…

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[abridged] We describe LyMAS (Ly-alpha Mass Association Scheme), a method of predicting clustering statistics in the Ly-alpha forest on large scales from moderate resolution simulations of the dark matter distribution, with calibration from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Sébastien Peirani , David H. Weinberg , Stéphane Colombi , Jérémy Blaizot , Yohan Dubois , Christophe Pichon

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-15 G. Polinovskyi , M. Malygin

The currently observing Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) places sub-percent constraints on the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) scaling parameters from the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly-$\alpha$) forest. However, no systematic error…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-18 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Roger de Belsunce , Andrei Cuceu , Julien Guy , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Henri Coquinot , Andreu Font-Ribera

We study and compare fitting methods for the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest 3D correlation function. We use the nested sampler PolyChord and the community code picca to perform a Bayesian analysis which we compare with previous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Andrei Cuceu , Andreu Font-Ribera , Benjamin Joachimi

The 1D Ly-$\alpha$ forest flux power spectrum $P_{\mathrm{1D}}$ is sensitive to scales smaller than a typical galaxy survey, and hence ties to the intergalactic medium's thermal state, suppression from neutrino masses and new dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-17 Naim Göksel Karaçaylı , Andreu Font-Ribera , Nikhil Padmanabhan

We present a novel maximum a posteriori estimator to jointly estimate band-powers and the covariance of the three-dimensional power spectrum (P3D) of Lyman-alpha forest flux fluctuations, called MAPLE. Our Wiener-filter based algorithm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-27 Benjamin Horowitz , Roger de Belsunce , Zarija Lukic

We present precision measurements of the bias parameters of the one-loop power spectrum model of the Lyman-alpha (Lya) forest, derived within the effective field theory of large-scale structure (EFT). We fit our model to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-26 Roger de Belsunce , Shi-Fan Chen , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Corentin Ravoux , Solene Chabanier , Jean Sexton , Zarija Lukic

The flux power spectra of the Lyman-alpha forest from a sample of 27 QSOs taken with the high resolution echelle spectrograph UVES on VLT are presented. We find a similar fluctuation amplitude at the peak of the ``3D'' flux power spectrum…

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We present a new cosmological analysis of the small-scale Lyman alpha forest 1D flux power spectrum (P1D) using high-resolution quasar spectra from XQ100 and KODIAQ-SQUAD, interpreted through the PRIYA emulator. PRIYA is a suite of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 Ming-Feng Ho , Mahdi Qezlou , Simeon Bird , Yanhui Yang , Camille Avestruz , M. A. Fernandez , Vid Iršič

We present a measurement of the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) intensity mapping power spectrum from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX). We measure the cross-power spectrum of the Ly$\alpha$ intensity and…

We measure the linear power spectrum of mass density fluctuations at redshift z=2.5 from the \lya forest absorption in a sample of 19 QSO spectra, using the method introduced by Croft et al. (1998). The P(k) measurement covers the range…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rupert A. C. Croft , David H. Weinberg , Max Pettini , Lars Hernquist , Neal Katz

The Lyman-$\alpha$ (hereafter Ly-$\alpha$) forest is a probe of large-scale matter density fluctuations at high redshift, $z > 2.1$. It consists of HI absorption spectra along individual lines-of-sight. If the line-of-sight density is large…

We propose a new method for fitting the full-shape of the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest three-dimensional (3D) correlation function in order to measure the Alcock-Paczynski (AP) effect. Our method preserves the robustness of baryon…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Andrei Cuceu , Andreu Font-Ribera , Benjamin Joachimi , Seshadri Nadathur

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

We measure the clustering of quasars of the final data release (DR16) of eBOSS. The sample contains $343\,708$ quasars between redshifts $0.8\leq z\leq2.2$ over $4699\,\mathrm{deg}^2$. We calculate the Legendre multipoles (0,2,4) of the…