The Lyman-α forest catalogue from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Early Data Release

DESI Collaboration

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Abstract

We present and validate the catalogue of Lyman-α forest fluctuations for 3D analyses using the Early Data Release (EDR) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey. We used 88 511 quasars collected from DESI Survey Validation (SV) data and the first two months of the main survey (M2). We present several improvements to the method used to extract the Lyman-α absorption fluctuations performed in previous analyses from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In particular, we modify the weighting scheme and show that it can improve the precision of the correlation function measurement by more than 20 per cent. This catalogue can be downloaded from https://data.desi.lbl.gov/public/edr/vac/edr/lya/fuji/v0.3, and it will be used in the near future for the first DESI measurements of the 3D correlations in the Lyman-α forest.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)6666-6679
Number of pages14
JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS)
Volume528
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2024

Keywords

  • catalogues
  • dark energy
  • intergalactic medium
  • large-scale structure of Universe

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