The Lyman-α forest in three dimensions: measurements of large scale flux correlations from BOSS 1st-year data

@article{Slosar2011TheLF,
title={The Lyman-α forest in three dimensions: measurements of large scale flux correlations from BOSS 1st-year data},
author={A. Slosar and A. Font-Ribera and M. Pieri and J. Rich and J. M. Goff and 'Eric Aubourg and J. Brinkmann and N. Busca and B. Carithers and R. Charlassier and M. Cort{\^e}s and R. Croft and K. Dawson and D. Eisenstein and J. Hamilton and S. Ho and K. Lee and R. Lupton and P. Mcdonald and Bumbarija Medolin and J. Miralda-Escud'e and D. Muna and A. Myers and R. Nichol and N. Palanque-Delabrouille and I. P{\^a}ris and P. Petitjean and Yodovina Pivskur and E. Rollinde and N. Ross and D. Schlegel and D. Schneider and E. Sheldon and B. Weaver and D. Weinberg and C. Y{\e}che and D. York},
journal={Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics},
year={2011},
volume={2011},
pages={001-001}
}`
• A. Slosar, +34 authors D. York
• Published 2011
• Physics
• Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Using a sample of approximately 14,000 z > 2.1 quasars observed in the first year of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), we measure the three-dimensional correlation function of absorption in the Lyman-α forest. The angle-averaged correlation function of transmitted flux (F = e−τ) is securely detected out to comoving separations of 60 h−1Mpc, the first detection of flux correlations across widely separated sightlines. A quadrupole distortion of the redshift-space correlation… Expand
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