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Oxford University Press (OUP), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2(492), p. 2193-2207, 2019

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz3585

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Measuring the temperature and profiles of Ly α absorbers

Journal article published in 2019 by Antonella Garzilli ORCID, Tom Theuns, Joop Schaye ORCID
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Abstract

ABSTRACT The distribution of the absorption line broadening observed in the Ly α forest carries information about the temperature, T, and widths, λF, of the filaments in the intergalactic medium (IGM), and the background hydrogen photoionization rate, $Γ _{\rm H\, \small {I}}$. In this work, we present and test a new method for inferring T and λF and $Γ _{\rm H\, \small {I}}$ from combining the distribution of the absorption line broadening and the median flux. The method accounts for any underlying degeneracies. We apply our method to mock spectra from the reference model of the EAGLE cosmological simulation, and we demonstrate that we are able to reconstruct the IGM properties.

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