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Detection of Lyβ auto-correlations and Lyα-Lyβ cross-correlations in BOSS Data Release 9

Detection of Lyβ auto-correlations and Lyα-Lyβ cross-correlations in BOSS Data Release 9

The Lyman-β forest refers to a region in the spectra of distant quasars that lies between the rest-frame Lyman-β and Lyman-γ emissions. The forest in this region is dominated by a combination of absorption due to resonant Lyα and Lyβ scattering. When considering the 1D Lyβ forest in addition to …