The correlation of the Lyman-alpha forest and metals in close pairs of hight-redshift quasars

F. Coppolani, P. Petitjean, F. Stoehr +6

We derive the transverse flux correlation function in the Lyman-alpha forest at z~2.1 from VLT-FORS observations of a total of 32 pairs of quasars. The shape and correlation length…