The evolution of the intergalactic medium

M McQuinn - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016 - annualreviews.org
The bulk of cosmic matter resides in a dilute reservoir that fills the space between galaxies,
the intergalactic medium (IGM). The history of this reservoir is intimately tied to the cosmic …

Sterile neutrino dark matter

A Boyarsky, M Drewes, T Lasserre, S Mertens… - Progress in Particle and …, 2019 - Elsevier
We review sterile neutrinos as possible Dark Matter candidates. After a short summary on
the role of neutrinos in cosmology and particle physics, we give a comprehensive overview …

The baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey of SDSS-III

KS Dawson, DJ Schlegel, CP Ahn… - The Astronomical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) is designed to measure
the scale of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of matter over a larger …

DESI 2024 IV: Baryon acoustic oscillations from the Lyman alpha forest

AG Adame, J Aguilar, S Ahlen, S Alam… - … of Cosmology and …, 2025 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) from the Lyman-α (Lyα)
forest of high-redshift quasars with the first-year dataset of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic …

A unified, merger-driven model of the origin of starbursts, quasars, the cosmic X-ray background, supermassive black holes, and galaxy spheroids

PF Hopkins, L Hernquist, TJ Cox… - The Astrophysical …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an evolutionary model for starbursts, quasars, and spheroidal galaxies in which
mergers between gas-rich galaxies drive nuclear inflows of gas, producing starbursts and …

Baryon acoustic oscillations in the Lyα forest of BOSS quasars

T Delubac, J Rich, S Bailey, A Font-Ribera… - Astronomy & …, 2013 - aanda.org
We report a detection of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the three-
dimensional correlation function of the transmitted flux fraction in the Lyα forest of high …

Constraining the evolution of the ionizing background and the epoch of reionization with z∼ 6 quasars. II. A sample of 19 quasars

X Fan, MA Strauss, RH Becker, RL White… - The Astronomical …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the evolution of the ionization state of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at the end of
the reionization epoch using moderate-resolution spectra of a sample of 19 quasars at 5.74< …

The DESI experiment part I: science, targeting, and survey design

A Aghamousa, J Aguilar, S Ahlen, S Alam… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy
experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the growth of structure …

Evidence for Reionization at z∼ 6: Detection of a Gunn-Peterson Trough in az= 6.28 Quasar

RH Becker, X Fan, RL White, MA Strauss… - The Astronomical …, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
We present moderate-resolution Keck spectroscopy of quasars at z= 5.82, 5.99, and 6.28,
discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We find that the Ly α absorption in the …

Cosmological parameter analysis including SDSS Ly forest and galaxy bias: Constraints on the primordial spectrum of fluctuations, neutrino mass, and dark energy

U Seljak, A Makarov, P McDonald, SF Anderson… - Physical Review D …, 2005 - APS
We combine the constraints from the recent Ly α forest analysis of the Sloan Digital Sky
Survey (SDSS) and the SDSS galaxy bias analysis with previous constraints from SDSS …