The Lyman-alpha Forest at z~4: Keck HIRES Observations of Q 0000-26

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1996-06-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9606033v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

plain TeX containing 23 PS pages, 3 PS tables, and 9 PS figures, ApJ, Dec 1, 1996 issue replacing an earlier version which con

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10.1086/178084

This paper describes a study of the Lyman-alpha forest absorption clouds along the quasar sightline Q0000-26 (zem=4.1). The spectrum was obtained with the High Resolution Spectrometer on the 10m Keck telescope. We derive accurate H I column density and Doppler width distributions for the clouds from Voigt profile fitting. We also analyze simulated Lyman-alpha forest spectra of matching characteristics in order to gauge the effects of line blending/blanketing and noise in the data. The results are compared with similar studies at lower redshifts in order to study any possible evolution in the clouds' properties. We also estimate the mean intensity of the UV background at z=4 from an analysis of the proximity effect.

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