2024/05/02 by Adrien La Posta, Emmanuel Schaan, La Posta, Adrien +1
Computer Science · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Computational Physics and Python Applications #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences #Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2405.01628
openalex publication_date 2024/05/02 · openalex created_date 2024/05/08 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We forecast the sensitivity of future correlations between CMB lensing and the Lyman-α forest power spectrum. This squeezed-limit bispectrum probes the connection between the Lyman-α transmission and the underlying large-scale matter density field. We recover the measured signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio obtained with Planck×BOSS, and forecast a SNR of 10.3, 14.8 and 20.2 for DESI combined with ACT, SO and CMB-S4 respectively. For DESI and SO/CMB-S4, the correlation should be detectable at SNR≥ 5 in 5 redshift bins, useful for distinguishing our signal from several contaminants.Indeed, our forecast is affected by large theoretical uncertainties in the current modeling of the signal and its contaminants, such as continuum misestimation bias or damped-Lyman-α absorbers. Quantifying these more accurately will be crucial to enable a reliable cosmological interpretation of this observable in future measurements. We attempt to enumerate the features required in future Lyman-α forest simulations required to do so.