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Large-Scale Structure with the Lyman-Alpha Forest from BOSS

Jordi Miralda (ICC, UB)

Abstract

The first results obtained from the Baryon acoustic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey on large-scale structure using the Lyman alpha forest will be discussed. Absorption spectra are emerging as a new tool for the study of the large-scale distribution and cross-correlations of intergalactic hydrogen absorption, galaxies, DLAs, QSOs, and metal absorbers in the universe. This promises to provide new clues for fundamental cosmology, the nature of quasars, the relation of galaxies to their environment, and the first metals that were released to the intergalactic medium.