The Ly forest flux correlation function: a perturbation theory perspective

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/05/053zbMATH Open1485.85025arXiv2103.13498OpenAlexW3160512332MaRDI QIDQ5028142FDOQ5028142

Authors: Shi-Fan Chen, Zvonimir Vlah, Martin White 

Publication date: 8 February 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Ly$alpha$ forest provides one of the best means of mapping large-scale structure at high redshift, including our tightest constraint on the distance-redshift relation before cosmic noon. We describe how the large-scale correlations in the Ly$alpha$ forest can be understood as an expansion in cumulants of the optical depth field, which itself can be related to the density field by a bias expansion. This provides a direct connection between the observable and the statistics of the matter fluctuations which can be computed in a systematic manner. We discuss the way in which complex, small-scale physics enters the predictions, the origin of the much-discussed velocity bias and the `renormalization' of the large-scale bias coefficients. Our calculations are within the context of perturbation theory, but we also make contact with earlier work using the peak-background split. Using the structure of the equations of motion we demonstrate, to all orders in perturbation theory, that the large-scale flux power spectrum becomes the linear spectrum times the square of a quadratic in the cosine of the angle to the line of sight. Unlike the case of galaxies, both the isotropic and anisotropic pieces receive contributions from small-scale physics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.13498

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zbMATH Keywords

power spectrumLyman alpha forestcosmological parameters from LSSintergalactic media

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Composite media; random media in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A48) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45)

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