The Size and Nature of Lyman alpha Forest Clouds Probed by QSO Pairs and Groups

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1995-10-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9510112v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Astrophysical Journal accepted; 28 pages of uuencoded gzip compressed postscript file (including 8 figures). Also see the unco

Scientific paper

10.1086/177129

We describe a robust Bayesian statistical method for determining Lyman alpha forest cloud sizes in spherical and in thin disk geometries, using absorption in adjacent sightlines toward closely separated QSO pairs and groups, apply this method to the available data, and discuss implications of our results for models of Ly alpha clouds. Under the assumption of a population of uniform- size and unclustered clouds, the data from Q1343+2640A/B give a 99% confidence lower and upper bounds 61 0.4 A threshold on all linelists, we find a trend of larger inferred cloud radius with larger proper separation of QSO pairs, significant at the 3.4 sigma level. This indicates that the idealization of unclustered, uniform-sized clouds does not accurately describe the Ly alpha cloud population.

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