Probing the IGM with the Lyman-Alpha Forest through Cosmic Time

The Lyα forest is a series of absorption lines seen in quasar spectra and is a powerful tool for probing the thermal state of the intergalactic medium (IGM) across a wide redshift range. At intermediate redshifts (2< z <5), the statistical properties of the Lyα forest predicted by recent hydro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nasir, Fahad
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2018
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49347/