The Lyman α forest power spectrum from the XQ-100 legacy survey

@article{Irvsivc2016TheL,
title={The Lyman $\alpha$ forest power spectrum from the XQ-100 legacy survey},
author={Vid Irvsivc and M. Viel and T. Berg and V. D’Odorico and M. Haehnelt and S. Cristiani and G. Cupani and Tae-Sun Kim and S. L'opez and S. Ellison and G. Becker and L. Christensen and K. Denny and G. Worseck and J. Bolton},
journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
year={2016},
volume={466},
pages={4332-4345}
}
• Vid Irvsivc, +12 authors J. Bolton
• Published 2016
• Physics
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
We present the Lyman α flux power spectrum measurements of the XQ-100 sample of quasar spectra obtained in the context of the European Southern Observatory Large Programme ‘Quasars and their absorption lines: a legacy survey of the high redshift universe with VLT/XSHOOTER’. Using 100 quasar spectra with medium resolution and signal-to-noise ratio, we measure the power spectrum over a range of redshifts z = 3–4.2 and over a range of scales k = 0.003–0.06 km−1 s. The results agree well with the… Expand
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