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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 564, Issue 1, Pages 153-161Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/324212
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cosmic microwave background; intergalactic medium; methods : data analysis; quasars : absorption lines
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We propose a statistical method to search for fluctuations in the temperature of the intergalactic medium using the Lyalpha forest. The power on small scales (similar to25 km s(-1)) is used as a thermometer, and fluctuations of this power are constrained. The method is illustrated using Q1422+231. We see no evidence of temperature fluctuations. We show that in a model with two temperatures that occupy comparable fractions of the spectra, the ratio of small-scale powers is constrained to be smaller than 3.5 (corresponding to a factor of 2.5 in temperature). We show that approximately 10 quasars are needed to constrain temperature fluctuations of a factor of 1.7.
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