A consistent determination of the temperature of the intergalactic medium at redshift z=2.4

We present new measurements of the thermal state of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at z∼2.4 derived from absorption line profiles in the Lyα forest. We use a large set of high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations to calibrate the relationship between the temperature-density (T--Δ) relation in the I...

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Main Authors: Bolton, James S., Becker, George D., Haehnelt, Martin G, Viel, Matteo
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34604/