What causes the Ly-alpha forest, clouds or large-scale velocity fields ?

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1997-08-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9708063v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

2 pages, 2 Postscript figures, uses conf_iap.sty A contribution to the Proceed. 13th IAP Colloquium "Structure and Evolution o

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We show that in stochastic large scale velocity fields superposed on the general Hubble flow, the formation of the GP-depression in QSO spectra is intimately related to the formation of the absorption-line structure usually called `Ly-alpha forest'. Therefore the HI-density in the diffuse IGM might be substaintially underestimated if one determines the GP-effect from the apparent continuum in high resolution spectra of QSOs. Our tentative calculations imply a current baryon density Omega_b h^2_{100} = 0.015 which agrees well with the baryon density determination from the deuterium abaundance measurement by Levshakov, Kegel and Takahara (the same volume).

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