Probing the universe with the Lyman-alpha forest: II. The column density distribution

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1997-06-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9706286v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Revised version; submitted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01755.x

I apply the well controlled Hydro-PM approximation of Gnedin & Hui to model the column density distribution of the Lyman-alpha forest for 25 different flat cosmological scenarios, including variants of the standard CDM, tilted CDM, CDM with a cosmological constant, and CHDM models. I show that within the accuracy of the HPM approximation the slope of the column density distribution reflects the degree of nonlinearity of the cosmic gas distribution and is a function of the rms linear density fluctuation at the characteristic filtering scale only. The amplitude of the column density distribution, expressed as the value for the ionizing intensity, is derived as a function of the cosmological parameters (to about 40% accuracy). The observational data are currently consistent with the value for the ionizing intensity being constant in the redshift interval z~2-4.

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