The Lyman-alpha Forest: a Cosmic Gold Mine

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dc.creatorHui, Lam
dc.date1998-12-16
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dc.descriptionIn recent years, a remarkably simple physical picture of the Lyman-alpha forest has emerged, which allows detailed predictions to be made and turns the forest into a powerful probe of cosmology. We point out ways in which such a picture can be tested observationally, and explore three areas in which the Lyman-alpha forest can yield valuable constraints: the reionization history, the primordial mass power spectrum and the cosmological constant or its variants. The possibility of combining with other high redshift observations, such as the Lyman-break galaxy surveys, to provide consistency checks and complementary information is also discussed.
dc.descriptionTo appear in the proceedings of the MPA/ESO Conference "Evolution of Large Scale Structure", Garching, August 1998, 9 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9812293
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9812293
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/13557
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleThe Lyman-alpha Forest: a Cosmic Gold Mine
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