Author: Ho, Ming-Feng; Bird, Simeon; Garnett, Roman
Title: Damped Lyman-alpha Absorbers from Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR16Q with Gaussian processes Cord-id: elpblxnn Document date: 2021_3_19
ID: elpblxnn
Snippet: We present a new catalogue of Damped Lyman-$\alpha$ absorbers from SDSS DR16Q, as well as new estimates of their statistical properties. Our estimates are computed with the Gaussian process models presented in Garnett et al. (2017); Ho et al. (2020) with an improved model for marginalising uncertainty in the mean optical depth of each quasar. We compute the column density distribution function (CDDF) at $2
Document: We present a new catalogue of Damped Lyman-$\alpha$ absorbers from SDSS DR16Q, as well as new estimates of their statistical properties. Our estimates are computed with the Gaussian process models presented in Garnett et al. (2017); Ho et al. (2020) with an improved model for marginalising uncertainty in the mean optical depth of each quasar. We compute the column density distribution function (CDDF) at $24$. Our results for DLA line density and total hydrogen density are consistent with previous measurements. Despite a small bias due to the poorly measured blue edges of the spectra, we demonstrate that our new model can measure the DLA population statistics when the DLA is in the Lyman-$\beta$ forest region. We verify our results are not sensitive to the signal-to-noise ratios and redshifts of the background quasars although a residual correlation remains for detections from $z_{\textrm{QSO}}<2.5$, indicating some residual systematics when applying our models on very short spectra, where the SDSS spectral observing window only covers part of the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest.
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