Bias, redshift space distortions and primordial nongaussianity of nonlinear transformations: Application to Ly-α forest

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Seljak, Uro ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

cosmological perturbation theory; Lyman alpha forest; power spectrum; redshift surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858766343     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/03/004     Document Type: Article

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