Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-03-12
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.376:1838-1848,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
28 pages, 10 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11567.x
A statistical analysis of the space-time distribution of absorption-line systems (ALSs) observed in QSO spectra within the cosmological redshift interval $z$=0.0--3.7 is carried out on the base of our catalog of absorption systems (Ryabinkov et al. 2003). We confirm our previous conclusion that the $z$-distribution of absorbing matter contains non-uniform component displaying a pattern of statistically significant alternating maxima (peaks) and minima (dips). Using the wavelet transformation we determine the positions of the maxima and minima and estimate their statistical significance. The positions of the maxima and minima of the $z$-distributions obtained for different celestial hemispheres turn out to be weakly sensitive to orientations of the hemispheres. The data reveal a regularity (quasi-periodicity) of the sequence of the peaks and dips with respect to some rescaling functions of $z$. The same periodicity was found for the one-dimensional correlation function calculated for the sample of the ALSs under investigation. We assume the existence of a regular structure in the distribution of absorption matter, which is not only spatial but also temporal in nature with characteristic time varying within the interval 150--650 Myr for the cosmological model applied.
Kaminker A. D.
Ryabinkov A. I.
Varshalovich Dmitry A.
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