Predicting Quasar Continua near Ly α with Principal Component Analysis

© 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Measuring the proximity effect and the damping wing of intergalactic neutral hydrogen in quasar spectra during the epoch of reionization requires an estimate of the intrinsic continuum at rest-frame wavelengths of λ rest ∼ 1200-1260 Å....

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Main Authors: Davies, Frederick B, Hennawi, Joseph F, Bañados, Eduardo, Simcoe, Robert A, Decarli, Roberto, Fan, Xiaohui, Farina, Emanuele P, Mazzucchelli, Chiara, Rix, Hans-Walter, Venemans, Bram P, Walter, Fabian, Wang, Feige, Yang, Jinyi
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Astronomical Society 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/136351