Measuring Large Scale Structure and Peculiar Motions at z>1 using
QSO Absorption-lines
School of Physics
University of Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria 3052
Australia.
e-mail: pjf@physics.unimelb.edu.au
Abstract
I discuss the prospects for using QSO absorption-lines to measure
large-scale structure and peculiar motions at unprecedented redshifts; z=1-4.
I review the existing data, which though very incomplete suggests that at
redshifts around two, large scale structure was already well developed, but
that peculiar motions were very low. With the advent of 2dF, it should be
possible to track the evolution of large scale structure right through the
epoch of galaxy and cluster formation.
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