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Statistical Mechanics and Lorentz Violation
Don Colladay, Patrick McDonald
The theory of statistical mechanics is studied in the presence of Lorentz-violating background fields. The analysis is performed using the Standard-Model Extension (SME) together w…
Physical effects on the Lyman-alpha forest flux power spectrum: damping wings, ionizing radiation fluctuations, and galactic winds
P. McDonald, U. Seljak, R. Cen +2
We explore several physical effects on the power spectrum of the Lyman-alpha forest transmitted flux. The effects we investigate here are usually not part of hydrodynamic simulatio…
Cosmological parameter analysis including SDSS Ly-alpha forest and galaxy bias: constraints on the primordial spectrum of fluctuations, neutrino mass, and dark energy
U. Seljak, A. Makarov, P. McDonald +18
We combine the constraints from the recent Ly-alpha forest and bias analysis of the SDSS with previous constraints from SDSS galaxy clustering, the latest supernovae, and WMAP . Co…
The Linear Theory Power Spectrum from the Lyman-alpha Forest in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
P. McDonald, U. Seljak, R. Cen +12
We analyze the SDSS Ly-alpha forest P_F(k,z) measurement to determine the linear theory power spectrum. Our analysis is based on fully hydrodynamic simulations, extended using hydr…
SDSS galaxy bias from halo mass-bias relation and its cosmological implications
U. Seljak, A. Makarov, R. Mandelbaum +7
We combine the measurements of luminosity dependence of bias with the luminosity dependent weak lensing analysis of dark matter around galaxies to derive the galaxy bias and constr…
The Lyman-alpha Forest Power Spectrum from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Patrick McDonald, Uros Seljak, Scott Burles +8
We measure the power spectrum, P_F(k,z), of the transmitted flux in the Ly-alpha forest using 3035 high redshift quasar spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. This sample is al…