The Dark Age of the universe

Science

Volumn 300, Issue 5627, 2003, Pages 1904-1909

  Miralda Escudé, Jordi ^a,b,c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; IONIZATION; MICROWAVES;

REIONIZATION;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ASTRONOMY; EVOLUTION;

ANISOTROPY; ATOM; COSMOS; ELECTRON; ENERGY; EVOLUTION; GAMMA RADIATION; GRAVITY; IONIZATION; LUMINANCE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MODEL; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THEORY; VELOCITY;

EID: 0038047469     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1085325     Document Type: Review

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