The acoustic peak in the Lyman alpha forest

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Slosar, Anže ^a   Ho, Shirley ^a   White, Martin ^a   Louis, Thibaut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Baryon acoustic oscillations; Cosmological simulations; Lyman alpha forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350668447     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/10/019     Document Type: Article

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