2010-09-17

IGM model

At the end of the day, Foreman-Mackey, Bovy, and I discussed how we might model the Lyman-alpha absorption in quasar spectra, such that the continuum (which is unobservable) becomes a fit parameter usefully constrained by the data. The long-term goal is to do Lyman-alpha clustering. The key thing is that this would be hierarchical: The parameters we care about would be parameters of the state and clustering of the IGM.

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  1. In some sense, you can use the pixel flux distribution to do this, instead of zeroth order estimates like D_A which would have the continuum as a fit parameter.

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