Searching for the shadows of giants: the absorption signatures of protoclusters in the Lyman-alpha forest

In this thesis, I use large scale state-of-the-art hydrodynamical cosmological simulations to investigate the Ly-α absorption properties of protocluster regions at redshift z∼2.4. Using the IllustrisTNG simulations, I investigate how the AGNproximity effect and hot, collisionally ionised gas arising...

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Main Author: Miller, Joel Sebastian Arthur
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/67235/