Predictions for BAO distance estimates from the cross-correlation of the Lyman-α forest and redshifted 21-cm emission

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Sarkar, Tapomoy Guha ^a   Bharadwaj, Somnath ^b  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

baryon acoustic oscillations; intergalactic media; Lyman alpha forest; power spectrum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883647744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/08/023     Document Type: Article

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