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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 334, 期 1, 页码 107-116出版社
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05490.x
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galaxies : formation; intergalactic medium; cosmology : theory; large-scale structure of Universe
We investigate possible systematic errors in the recent measurement of the matter power spectrum from the Lyman-alpha forest by Croft et al. We find that for a large set of prior cosmological models the Croft et al. result holds quite well, with systematic errors being comparable with random ones, when a dependence of the recovered-matter power spectrum on the cosmological parameters at z similar to3 is taken into account. We find that peculiar velocities cause the flux power spectrum to be smoothed over about 100-300 km s(-1), depending on scale. Consequently, the recovered-matter power spectrum is a smoothed version of the underlying true power spectrum. Uncertainties in the recovered power spectrum are thus correlated over about 100-300 km s(-1). As a side effect, we find that residual fluctuations in the ionizing background, while having almost no effect on the recovered-matter power spectrum, significantly bias estimates of the baryon density from the Lyman-alpha forest data. We therefore conclude that the Croft et al. result provides a powerful new constraint on cosmological parameters and models of structure formation.
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