# The Lyα Forest Power Spectrum from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

@article{Mcdonald2004TheLF,
title={The Ly$\alpha$ Forest Power Spectrum from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey},
author={Patrick Mcdonald and Uros Seljak and Scott M. Burles and David J. Schlegel and David H. Weinberg and Renyue Cen and David Shih and Joop Schaye and Donald P. Schneider and Neta A. Bahcall and John W. Briggs and Jonathan Brinkmann and Robert J. Brunner and Masataka Fukugita and James E. Gunn and Željko Ivezi{\'c} and Stephen Kent and Robert H. Lupton and Daniel E. vanden Berk},
journal={The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series},
year={2004},
volume={163},
pages={80 - 109}
}
• Published 3 May 2004
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• The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
We measure the power spectrum, PF(k, z), of the transmitted flux in the Lyα forest using 3035 high-redshift quasar spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. This sample is almost 2 orders of magnitude larger than any previously available data set, yielding statistical errors of ~0.6% and ~0.005 on, respectively, the overall amplitude and logarithmic slope of PF(k, z). This unprecedented statistical power requires a correspondingly careful analysis of the data and of possible systematic…
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