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The Low‐Redshift Lyα Forest in Cold Dark Matter Cosmologies

The Low‐Redshift Lyα Forest in Cold Dark Matter Cosmologies

We study the physical origin of the low-redshift Lyman alpha forest in hydrodynamic simulations of four CDM cosmologies. Our main conclusions are insensitive to the cosmological model but depend on our assumption that the UV background declines at low redshift. We find that the expansion of the universe drives rapid …