Wine and Cheese Fall 2014
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8 Sept 2014
K.G. Lee
The First z>2 Large-Scale Structure Map with Lyman-Alpha Forest Tomography from LBGs
The hydrogen Lyman-alpha forest is a long-established probe of large-scale structure at z>2, but is typically limited to 1D investigations along individual quasar sightlines. However, by instead targeting LBGs as background sources, the transverse separation between sources is ~Mpc and it becomes possible to do a 3D 'tomographic' reconstruction of the intergalactic medium. I will describe pilot observations using this technique, which has produced the first map of 3D large-scale structure at z~2.3 within the COSMOS field. Comparisons with coeval galaxies and simulations indicate that our map is truly tracing large-scale structure. This motivates the CLAMATO survey, which will map out a volume of (100 Mpc/h)^3 at z~2.3 and allow us to search for galaxy protoclusters, study the effect of environment on galaxy evolution, and constrain cosmological parameters.
Peter Behroozi
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15 Sept 2014
Dheeraj Pasham
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Alex Mendez
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22 Sept 2014
Yacine Ali-Haïmoud
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Jim Green
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29 Sept 2014
Remco van den Bosch
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Omer Bromberg
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6 Oct 2014
Matthias Bartelmann
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Roseanne Cheng
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13 Oct 2014
Jeff Cummings
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20 Oct 2014
27 Oct 2014
3 Nov 2014
Chun Ly
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The hydrogen Lyman-alpha forest is a long-established probe of large-scale structure at z>2, but is typically limited to 1D investigations along individual quasar sightlines. However, by instead targeting LBGs as background sources, the transverse separation between sources is ~Mpc and it becomes possible to do a 3D 'tomographic' reconstruction of the intergalactic medium. I will describe pilot observations using this technique, which has produced the first map of 3D large-scale structure at z~2.3 within the COSMOS field. Comparisons with coeval galaxies and simulations indicate that our map is truly tracing large-scale structure. This motivates the CLAMATO survey, which will map out a volume of (100 Mpc/h)^3 at z~2.3 and allow us to search for galaxy protoclusters, study the effect of environment on galaxy evolution, and constrain cosmological parameters.
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