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Title: Measurement of the small-scale 3D Lyman-α forest power spectrum

Journal Article · · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
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  1. Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (France); Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  3. Aix-Marseille Univ., Marseille (France); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Marseille (France). Centre for Particle Physics of Marseille (CPPM)

Small-scale correlations measured in the Lyman-α (Lyα) forest encode information about the intergalactic medium and the primordial matter power spectrum. In this article, we present and implement a simple method to measure the 3-dimensional power spectrum, P3D, of the Lyα forest at wavenumbers k corresponding to small, ~ Mpc scales. In order to estimate P3D from sparsely and unevenly distributed data samples, we rely on averaging 1-dimensional Fourier Transforms, as previously carried out to estimate the 1-dimensional power spectrum of the Lyα forest, P1D. Further, this methodology exhibits a very low computational cost. We confirm the validity of this approach through its application to Nyx cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. Subsequently, we apply our method to the eBOSS DR16 Lyα forest sample, providing as a proof of principle, a first P3D measurement averaged over two redshift bins z = 2.2 and z = 2.4. This work highlights the potential for forthcoming P3D measurements, from upcoming large spectroscopic surveys, to untangle degeneracies in the cosmological interpretation of P1D.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR). Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
2407034
Journal Information:
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Journal Issue: 05 Vol. 2024; ISSN 1475-7516
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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