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OATS-UNI/TS SEMINAR
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Speaker: Jordi Miralda Escudé (Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Univ. de Barcelona, ES)

Title: The large-scale cross-correlation of DLAs and the Lyman-Alpha Forest from BOSS
Date: Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012
Time: 11:30
Venue: Villa Bazzoni
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Abstract: The Baryon acoustic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey has introduced the measurements of large-scale structure at high redshift using the Lyman alpha forest. In addition to the Lya forest autocorrelation, the cross-correlations with quasars, DLAs and metal lines can be studied. This talk will focus on the DLA-Lya cross-correlation, which yields a measurement of the bias factor of DLAs of 2.2 +- 0.2. This implies that DLAs are associated with more massive halos and galaxies than current models from simulations have been predicting, and suggests a picture where massive galaxies at z ~ 2.5 are surrounded by DLA systems with proper radii larger than 20 kpc.
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Contact: Matteo Viel (OATS)