%0 Journal Article
%T The Lyman Alpha Forest in Hierarchical Cosmologies
%A M. Machacek
%A G. Bryan
%A P. Anninos
%A A. Meiksin
%A M. L. Norman
%A Y. Zhang
%J Physics
%D 1999
%I arXiv
%R 10.1063/1.58592
%X The comparison of quasar absorption spectra with numerically simulated spectra from hierarchical cosmological models of structure formation promises to be a valuable tool to discriminate among these models. We present simulation results for the column density, Doppler b parameter, and optical depth probability distributions for five popular cosmological models.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9903073v1