Tracing the gas at redshift 1.7-3.5 with the Lyman-alpha forest: the FLO approach

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2007-12-16

arxiv.org/abs/0712.2452v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 385 (2008) 519-530

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

17 figures and 2 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.12860.x

[Abridged] We present FLO (From Lines to Over-densities), a new technique to reconstruct the hydrogen density field for the Lya forest lines observed in high resolution QSO spectra. The method is based on the hypothesis that the Lya lines arise in the low to intermediate density intergalactic gas and that the Jeans length is the typical size of the Lya absorbers. The reliability of FLO is tested against mock spectra obtained from cosmological simulations. The recovering algorithm gives satisfactory results in the range from the mean density to over-densities of ~30 and reproduces correctly the correlation function of the density field and the 1D power spectrum on scales between ~20 and 60 comoving Mpc. A sample of Lya forests from 22 high resolution QSO spectra is analysed, covering the redshift range 1.7

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