20 research outputs found
Broadband distortion modeling in Lyman- forest BAO fitting
In recent years, the Lyman- absorption observed in the spectra of
high-redshift quasars has been used as a tracer of large-scale structure by
means of the three-dimensional Lyman- forest auto-correlation function
at redshift , but the need to fit the quasar continuum in every
absorption spectrum introduces a broadband distortion that is difficult to
correct and causes a systematic error for measuring any broadband properties.
We describe a -space model for this broadband distortion based on a
multiplicative correction to the power spectrum of the transmitted flux
fraction that suppresses power on scales corresponding to the typical length of
a Lyman- forest spectrum. Implementing the distortion model in fits for
the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) peak position in the Lyman-
forest auto-correlation, we find that the fitting method recovers the input
values of the linear bias parameter and the redshift-space distortion
parameter for mock data sets with a systematic error of less than
0.5\%. Applied to the auto-correlation measured for BOSS Data Release 11, our
method improves on the previous treatment of broadband distortions in BAO
fitting by providing a better fit to the data using fewer parameters and
reducing the statistical errors on and the combination
by more than a factor of seven. The measured values at
redshift are $\beta_{F}=1.39^{+0.11\ +0.24\ +0.38}_{-0.10\ -0.19\
-0.28}b_{F}(1+\beta_{F})=-0.374^{+0.007\ +0.013\ +0.020}_{-0.007\
-0.014\ -0.022}\sigma\sigma\sigma$ statistical errors). Our
fitting software and the input files needed to reproduce our main results are
publicly available.Comment: 28 pages, 15 figures, matches the published versio
The Mean Metal-line Absorption Spectrum of DLAs in BOSS
We study the mean absorption spectrum of the Damped Lyman alpha population at
by stacking normalized, rest-frame shifted spectra of DLAs from the DR12 of BOSS/SDSS-III. We measure the equivalent widths
of 50 individual metal absorption lines in 5 intervals of DLA hydrogen column
density, 5 intervals of DLA redshift, and overall mean equivalent widths for an
additional 13 absorption features from groups of strongly blended lines. The
mean equivalent width of low-ionization lines increases with ,
whereas for high-ionization lines the increase is much weaker. The mean metal
line equivalent widths decrease by a factor from to
, with small or no differences between low- and high-ionization
species. We develop a theoretical model, inspired by the presence of multiple
absorption components observed in high-resolution spectra, to infer mean metal
column densities from the equivalent widths of partially saturated metal lines.
We apply this model to 14 low-ionization species and to AlIII, SIII, SiIII,
CIV, SiIV, NV and OVI. We use an approximate derivation for separating the
equivalent width contributions of several lines to blended absorption features,
and infer mean equivalent widths and column densities from lines of the
additional species NI, ZnII, CII, FeIII, and SIV. Several of these mean
column densities of metal lines in DLAs are obtained for the first time; their
values generally agree with measurements of individual DLAs from
high-resolution, high signal-to-noise ratio spectra when they are available.Comment: Resubmitted after referee revision. Added evolution of metal-line
equivalent widths with redshift (Section 5). Added assessment of result
dependencies on sample and methodology. Comparison of relative abundances of
DLAs vs Milky Way ISM and halo (Figure 16). Publicly available videos of
composite quasar and DLA spectra realizations here:
https://github.com/lluism
Lyman-alpha Forest Tomography from Background Galaxies: The First Megaparsec-Resolution Large-Scale Structure Map at z>2
We present the first observations of foreground Lyman- forest
absorption from high-redshift galaxies, targeting 24 star-forming galaxies
(SFGs) with within a region of the COSMOS
field. The transverse sightline separation is
comoving, allowing us to create a tomographic reconstruction of the 3D
Ly forest absorption field over the redshift range . The resulting map covers in the transverse plane and
along the line-of-sight with a spatial resolution of , and is the first high-fidelity map of large-scale
structure on scales at . Our map reveals significant
structures with extent, including several
spanning the entire transverse breadth, providing qualitative evidence for the
filamentary structures predicted to exist in the high-redshift cosmic web.
Simulated reconstructions with the same sightline sampling, spectral
resolution, and signal-to-noise ratio recover the salient structures present in
the underlying 3D absorption fields. Using data from other surveys, we
identified 18 galaxies with known redshifts coeval with our map volume enabling
a direct comparison to our tomographic map. This shows that galaxies
preferentially occupy high-density regions, in qualitative agreement with the
same comparison applied to simulations. Our results establishes the feasibility
of the CLAMATO survey, which aims to obtain Ly forest spectra for SFGs over of the COSMOS field, in order to map
out IGM large-scale structure at over a large
volume .Comment: Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters; 8 pages
and 5 figure
Lead/Lag directionality is not generally equivalent to causality in nonlinear systems: Comparison of phase slope index and conditional mutual information
Applications of causal techniques to neural time series have increased extensively over last decades, including a wide and diverse family of methods focusing on electroencephalogram (EEG) analysis. Besides connectivity inferred in defined frequency bands, there is a growing interest in the analysis of cross-frequency interactions, in particular phase and amplitude coupling and directionality. Some studies show contradicting results of coupling directionality from high frequency to low frequency signal components, in spite of generally considered modulation of a high-frequency amplitude by a low-frequency phase. We have compared two widely used methods to estimate the directionality in cross frequency coupling: conditional mutual information (CMI) and phase slope index (PSI). The latter, applied to infer cross-frequency phase–amplitude directionality from animal intracranial recordings, gives opposite results when comparing to CMI. Both metrics were tested in a numerically simulated example of unidirectionally coupled Rössler systems, which helped to find the explanation of the contradictory results: PSI correctly estimates the lead/lag relationship which, however, is not generally equivalent to causality in the sense of directionality of coupling in nonlinear systems, correctly inferred by using CMI with surrogate data testing
Travelling pulses in Class-I excitable media
NoLineal 20-21 Online. 12th International Conference on Nonlinear Mathematics and Physics. Madrid, June 30-July 2, 2021, Escuela Técnica Superior de Minas y Energía. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.Excitability is a property of certain nonlinear dynamical systems with respect to their response to external perturbations. Excitable systems can be classify in two classes, Class-I and II, with differentiated dynamical properties and obtained thought different bifurcations [1].Excitable media, locally excitable spatially extended systems, show different regimes in which local perturbation, exceeding a threshold, can propagate across the medium. Many studies have been carried out in Class-II excitable media but much less is know about pulse propagation in the Class-I case. Recently, a number of vegetation systems compatible with Class-I excitability have shown travelling pulses [2–4], renewing interest in their study.
In this talk we will study the existence of travelling pulses in a Class-I excitable 1-dimensional media. We will consider a general model exhibiting Class-I excitability mediated by two different scenarios: a homoclinic (saddle-loop) and a SNIC (Saddle-Node on the Invariant Circle) bifurcations. The stability of these travelling pulses have been associated with the excitable region of the local dynamics. On the boundaries of this region the pulse shape inherit the infinite period of the homoclinic and SNIC bifurcations, exhibiting scaling behaviors in the spatial thickness of the pulses. Finally, the existence of these pulses have been tracked to a drift pitchfork instability of localized steady structures. This talk is based on the work [5]
Traveling Pulses in Class-I Excitable Media
Trabajo presentado en la SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (SIAM DS21), celebrada online del 23 al 27 de mayo de 2021.We study Class-I excitable 1-dimensional media showing the appearance of propagating traveling pulses. We consider a general model exhibiting Class-I excitability mediated by two different scenarios: a homoclinic (saddle-loop) and a SNIC (Saddle-Node on the Invariant Circle) bifurcations. The distinct properties of Class-I with respect to Class-II excitability infer unique properties to traveling pulses in Class-I excitable media. We show how the pulse shape inherit the infinite period of the homoclinic and SNIC bifurcations at threshold, exhibiting scaling behaviors in the spatial thickness of the pulses that are equivalent to the scaling behaviors of characteristic times in the temporal case
Bifurcation structure of traveling pulses in Type-I excitable media
We have studied the existence of traveling pulses in a general Type-I
excitable 1-dimensional medium. We have obtained the stability region and
characterized the different bifurcations behind either the destruction or loss
of stability of the pulses. In particular, some of the bifurcations delimiting
the stability region have been connected, using singular limits, with the two
different scenarios that mediated the Type-I local excitability, i.e.
homoclinic (saddle-loop) and Saddle-Node on the Invariant Circle bifurcations.
The existence of the traveling pulses has been linked, outside the stability
region, to a drift pitchfork instability of localized steady structures.Comment: 17 pages, 12 figure
A metal-line strength indicator for damped Lyman alpha (DLA) systems at low signal-to-noise
The bias factor of damped Ly α (DLAs) systems, derived from the cross-correlation with the Ly α forest in absorption spectra of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of SDSS-III, has been used to infer the characteristic mass of DLA host haloes. So far, no dependence of this bias factor with hydrogen column density NH I or other parameters has been detected. With the aim of measuring the dependence of the bias factor on the strength of metal lines, we define the metal strength parameter S, based on optimally combining equivalent widths of 17 metal lines to obtain the highest possible signal-to-noise ratio of S for individual candidate DLAs (defined as having NH I ≥ 1020 cm−2). We present the distribution of metal strength for these DLAs and the dependence of its mean value on NH I and redshift. We search for systematic effects and variations in the catalogue purity by examining the dependence of the S distribution on the spectral signal-to-noise and the estimated error on S. A catalogue of DLAs with measured equivalent widths for the selected 17 metal lines and the value of S are made publicly available, which are used in a separate paper to measure the dependence of the DLA bias factor on the S parameter. The relation of the metal strength on the gas metal abundances and velocity dispersion is complicated by the saturation of metal lines, and remains to be determined in future work
Bifurcation structure of traveling pulses in Type-I excitable media
We have studied the existence of traveling pulses in a general Type-I excitable 1-dimensional medium. We have obtained the stability region and characterized the different bifurcations behind either the destruction or loss of stability of the pulses. In particular, some of the bifurcations delimiting the stability region have been connected, using singular limits, with the two different scenarios that mediated the Type-I local excitability, i.e. homoclinic (saddle-loop) and Saddle-Node on the Invariant Circle bifurcations. The existence of the traveling pulses has been linked, outside the stability region, to a drift pitchfork instability of localized steady structures.N