We have observed two high -redshift quasars with the echelle spectrograph
and 2D- Frutti Photon Counter at Las Campanas, in order to investigate the
statistical properties of the Lyman -a forest. The two-point correlation function for
the Lyman -a forest lines at z .^s 3 is consistent with zero, for all velocity splittings
A > 50 km /sec. When Lyman -a lines and other metal lines from known metalline
systems are included, the correlation function shows a weak non -zero signal at
small A . We suggest that the weak clustering of the Lyman -a forest detected by
other workers may be the result of contamination by a small number of metal -line
systems and their associated Lyman -a lines.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/623892 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Bechtold, J., Shectman, S. A. |
| Contributors | Univ Arizona, Steward Observ |
| Publisher | Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Conference Proceedings |
| Source | Steward Observatory Parker Library SO QB 4 .S752 ARCH |
| Rights | Copyright © All Rights Reserved. |
| Relation | Preprints of the Steward Observatory #836, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1989IAUS..134..549B&db_key=AST&data_type=HTML&format=&high=3ed65e9cd011369 |
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