THRESHOLD PROBABILITY FUNCTIONS AND THERMAL INHOMOGENEITIES IN THE Lyα FOREST
THRESHOLD PROBABILITY FUNCTIONS AND THERMAL INHOMOGENEITIES IN THE Lyα FOREST
We introduce to astrophysics the threshold probability functions S2, C2, and D2 first derived by Torquato et al., which effectively samples the flux probability distribution function (PDF) of the Lyα forest at different spatial scales. These statistics are tested on mock Lyα forest spectra based on various toy models for …