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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 440, 期 3, 页码 2599-2609出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu475
关键词
methods: statistical; intergalactic medium; quasars: absorption lines; large-scale structure of Universe
资金
- National Science Foundation [DMS-1043903]
- NSF [AST1109730, OCI-0749212]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences [1109730] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Visualizing the high-redshift Universe is difficult due to the dearth of available data; however, the Lyman-alpha forest provides a means to map the intergalactic medium at redshifts not accessible to large galaxy surveys. Large-scale structure surveys, such as the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), have collected quasar (QSO) spectra that enable the reconstruction of H i density fluctuations. The data fall on a collection of lines defined by the lines of sight (LOS) of the QSO, and a major issue with producing a 3D reconstruction is determining how to model the regions between the LOS. We present a method that produces a 3D map of this relatively uncharted portion of the Universe by employing local polynomial smoothing, a non-parametric methodology. The performance of the method is analysed on simulated data that mimics the varying number of LOS expected in real data, and then is applied to a sample region selected from BOSS. Evaluation of the reconstruction is assessed by considering various features of the predicted 3D maps including visual comparison of slices, probability density functions (PDFs), counts of local minima and maxima, and standardized correlation functions. This 3D reconstruction allows for an initial investigation of the topology of this portion of the Universe using persistent homology.
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