Physical properties and small-scale structure of the Lyman-alpha forest: Inversion of the HE 1122-1628 UVES spectrum

Details Physical properties and small-scale structure of the Lyman-alpha forest: Inversion of the HE 1122-1628 UVES spectrum Physical properties and small-scale structure of the Lyman-alpha forest: Inversion of the HE 1122-1628 UVES spectrum

2001-06-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0106198v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages, 21 figures, accepted for publication in A&A. Quoted results from other papers in section 4.2 have been modified

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20010901

We study the physical properties of the Lyman-alpha forest by applying the inversion method described by Pichon et al. (2001) to the high resolution and high S/N ratio spectrum of the z_em=2.40 quasar HE 1122-1628 obtained during Science Verification of UVES at the VLT. We compare the column densities obtained with the new fitting procedure with those derived using standard Voigt profile methods. The agreement is good and gives confidence in the new description of the Lyman-alpha forest as a continuous field as derived from our method. We show that the observed number density of lines with logN>13 and 14 is, respectively, 50 and 250 per unit redshift at z~2. We study the physical state of the gas, neglecting peculiar velocities, assuming a relation between the overdensity and the temperature. T=Tbar * rho^(2beta). There is an intrinsic degeneracy between the parameters beta and Tbar. We demonstrate that, at a fixed beta, the temperature at mean density, Tbar, can be uniquely extracted however. While applying the method to HE 1122-1628, we conclude that for 0.2

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