Wavelet Space-Scale-Decomposition Analysis of QSO's Ly$α$ Absorption Lines: Spectrum of Density Perturbations

Details Wavelet Space-Scale-Decomposition Analysis of QSO's Ly$α$ Absorption Lines: Spectrum of Density Perturbations Wavelet Space-Scale-Decomposition Analysis of QSO's Ly$α$ Absorption Lines: Spectrum of Density Perturbations

1995-09-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9509032v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

30 pages, 9 figures, in compressed uuencoded postscript file

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A method for measuring the spectrum of a density field by a discrete wavelet space-scale decomposition (SSD) has been studied. We show how the power spectrum can effectively be described by the father function coefficients (FFC) of the wavelet SSD. We demonstrate that the features of the spectrum, such as the magnitude, the index of a power law, and the typical scales, can be determined with high precision by the FFC reconstructed spectrum. This method does not require the mean density, which normally is poorly determined. The problem of the complex geometry of observed samples can also be easily solved because the basis are always orthogonal, regardless the geometry of the samples. Using this method, we examine the spectra inferred from Ly$\alpha$ forests of both simulated and real samples. We find that 1.) the magnitude of the 1-D spectra is significantly dfferent froma Poisson process; 2) the 1-d spectra are flat on scales less than 5 h$^{-1}$ Mpc, and increase slowly at larger ranges; 3.) the reconstructed 3-D spectra have about the same power as the COBE normalized linear spectrum of the SCDM model on scales less than 40 h$^{-1}$ Mpc, but is larger than the SCDM model on scales larger than 40 h$^{-1}$ Mpc; 4) the magnitudes of high redshift ($z>2.51$) spectra generally are larger than those of low redshift ($z<2.51$).

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