Large-scale Correlation of Mass and Galaxies with the Lyman-alpha Forest Transmitted Flux

Details Large-scale Correlation of Mass and Galaxies with the Lyman-alpha Forest Transmitted Flux Large-scale Correlation of Mass and Galaxies with the Lyman-alpha Forest Transmitted Flux

2001-12-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0112476v1

Astrophys.J. 580 (2002) 42-53

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Submitted to ApJ, 41 pages

Scientific paper

10.1086/343031

We present predictions of the correlation between the Lyman-alpha forest absorption in quasar spectra and the mass within \sim 5 Mpc/h (comoving) of the line of sight, using fully hydrodynamic and hydro-PM numerical simulations of the cold dark matter model supported by present observations. The observed correlation based on galaxies and the Lya forest can be directly compared to our theoretical results, assuming that galaxies are linearly biased on large scales. Specifically, we predict the average value of the mass fluctuation, , conditioned to a fixed value of the Lya forest transmitted flux delta_F, after they have been smoothed over a 10 Mpc/h cube and line of sight interval, respectively. We find that /sigma_m as a function of delta_F/sigma_F has a slope of 0.6 at this smoothing scale, where sigma_m and sigma_F are the rms dispersions (this slope should decrease with the smoothing scale). We show that this value is largely insensitive to the cosmological model and other Lya forest parameters. Comparison of our predictions to observations should provide a fundamental test of our ideas on the nature of the Lya forest and the distribution of galaxies, and can yield a measurement of the bias factor of any type of galaxies that are observed in the vicinity of Lya forest lines of sight.

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