Distribution of the Lyman-alpha Forest at z = 0.0-1.7

Adam Dobrzycki, Jill Bechtold

We present the analysis of a sample of the Ly-$\alpha$ forest spectra of 152 quasars taken with the HST FOS. The Ly-$\alpha$ lines show little evolution at $0<z<1.7$. We see a difference bet…