Corentin Ravoux
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The Lyman-α forest in the context of cosmology
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Cosmological context
How did the Universe evolve to its current state?
What are the fundamental constituents of our Universe?
How is matter distributed in the Universe?
The Story of Our Universe - NASA
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You are here
Global content of our Universe

What is the nature of dark energy
and dark matter?
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Large scale structures



Walther et al. 2021
Chabanier et al. 2019
How can we probe the cosmic web?
What can we learn from it?
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The Lyman-α forest: quasars as back light source

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The Lyman-α forest: quasars as back light source

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The Lyman-α forest
Wavelength [Angstrom]
Flux
Lyman-α: transition of neutral Hydrogen to first excited state
Lines in quasar spectra at caused by absorbers in the intergalactic medium (IGM) at

DESI quasar at z =3.42
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Lyman-α physics

Density of neutral hydrogen
Cross section of Lyman-α transition

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Gunn-Peterson effect
Velocity space:
Complicated and not very intuitive
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Fluctuating Gunn-Peterson approximation
Density of neutral hydrogen/baryon
Peculiar velocities
Universe expansion
Universe temperature
Lyman-α forest = non-linear tracer of neutral hydrogen in the IGM
Lyman-α forest observable
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Contaminants
Adapted from A. Pontzen video

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How to observe the Lyman-α forest?
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eBOSS (2014 - 2019)



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DESI (2021 - 2026)



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DESI focal plane


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Spectral resolution improvement

Resolution power
DESI Lyman-α forests can probe smaller scales
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Applications
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Quasar continuum

Wavelength [Angstrom]
Flux
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Definition of observational statistics
Configuration space
Fourier space
X = quasar, void
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Lyman-α clustering
Quasar
Lyman-α forest

Observer




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Lyman-α clustering
Correlation
1D power spectrum (P1D)
Quasar
Lyman-α forest




1D auto correlation
Fourier space
Configuration space
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Lyman-α clustering
Correlation
Correlation
Quasar
Lyman-α forest




Fourier space
3D power spectrum (P3D)
Configuration space
3D auto correlation
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Lyman-α clustering
Quasar
Lyman-α forest




Configuration space
3D cross correlation with quasars
Correlation
Correlation
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Quasar
Lyman-α forest
Lyman-α clustering
Interpolation
Interpolation




Lyman-α tomography
Configuration space
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1D Application: P1D measurement
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P1D measurement

Correlations along individual lines-of-sight
Sensitive to small-scale matter clustering and IGM
thermal state
Previous measurement: eBOSS
Small scales
Large scales
Chabanier et al. 2019

1D power spectrum (P1D)
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Matter power spectrum
Amplitude of matter density perturbation as a function of scale
P1D can probe the small-scale matter power spectrum
Constraints on:

Chabanier et al. 2019

P1D range
Small scales
Large scales
Wavenumber k [Mpc^-1]
Matter power spectrum
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Neutrino masses
P1D range
CMB range

P1D constrain neutrino masses
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Dark matter properties
P1D range
Baur et al. 2015

P1D constrain dark matter
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P1D estimator
Without correction, Fourrier transform of the Lyman-α constrast
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P1D estimator
Correction of the DESI pipeline noise estimation
Spectroscopic resolution correction adapted to DESI pipeline
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P1D estimator
Correction of the DESI pipeline noise estimation
Spectroscopic resolution correction adapted to DESI pipeline
Measurement of absorption from other IGM elements
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P1D estimator
Masking of atmospheric lines
Masking of Damped Lyman-α systems
Correction of continuum fitting error
Correction of the DESI pipeline noise estimation
Spectroscopic resolution correction adapted to DESI pipeline
Measurement of absorption from other IGM elements
Correction of the resolution estimation
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P1D measurement DESI

P1D
Wavenumber k [Ang^-1]
Ravoux et al. 2023
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P1D simulations
Walther et al. 2021

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Current and future constraints
Palanque-Delabrouille et al. 2020
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3D Application: BAO measurement
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Baryon acoustic oscillations


~ 100 Mpc/h
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BAO with auto-correlation

du Mas des Bourboux et al. 2020
BAO scale


3D auto correlation
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BAO with quasar cross-correlation
3D cross correlation with quasars



du Mas des Bourboux et al. 2020
BAO scale
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Coupled constraints


Constraints on α parameters (auto and cross)
du Mas des Bourboux et al. 2020
eBOSS collaboration 2020
Hubble constant and matter density
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3D Application: Lyman-α tomography
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Lyman-α tomography



Lyman-α tomography
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eBOSS data

Ravoux et al. 2020
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Wiener filter map on eBOSS data

Lyman-α forest
Quasar
Reconstructed Lyman-α contrast
Void

Ravoux et al. 2020
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3D view
Gives a 3D map tracing matter at redshift z > 2

Redshift

Redshift
Ravoux et al. 2020
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Applications


Ravoux et al. 2020
Ravoux et al. 2020
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Lyman-α / Void cross correlation


eBOSS measurement
Ravoux et al. 2022
3D cross correlation with voids
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Linear void model

Velocity
Position
Density
Cosmic web dynamics parameter
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Multipole expansion

Hexadecapole
r x Monopole
Quadrupole
View of velocity
flow around voids at z > 2
Ravoux et al. 2022
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Projects
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MACSS projects
Tutorials
Projects
P1D
Tomography


Manipulate a small tomographic map obtained on DESI data
Design a void/proto-cluster finder on eBOSS map

Understand DESI data and compute a Fast Fourrier Transform
Reproduce P1D FFT measurement on DESI data

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