Intermittent behavior of cosmic mass field revealed by QSO's Ly_alpha forests

Abstract

The intermittent behavior of the space-scale distribution of Ly$\alpha$ transmitted flux of QSO HS1700+64 has been analyzed via a discrete wavelet transform. We found that there are strong indications of intermittency on scales down to about 10 $h^{-1}$ kpc. These are: 1.) the probability distribution function of the local fluctuations of the flux is significantly long-tailed on small scales, and 2.) the local power spectrum of the flux shows prominent spiky structures on small scales. Moreover, the local power spectrum averaged on regions with different sizes shows similar spiky structures. Therefore, the random mass density field traced by the Ly$\alpha$ forests is rougher on smaller scales, consistent with singular clustering.

Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters, 12 pages, 3 figures

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