A large neutral fraction of cosmic hydrogen a billion years after the Big Bang

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6977, 2004, Pages 815-817

  Wyithe, J Stuart B ^a   Loeb, Abraham ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; HYDROGEN; IONIZATION; PHOTONS;

INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM (IGM); QUASAR ACTIVITY;

ASTROPHYSICS;

HYDROGEN; PROTON;

COSMOCHEMISTRY; HYDROGEN;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CALCULATION; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COSMOS; DENSITY; EVOLUTION; IONIZATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY;

EID: 1542319098     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02336     Document Type: Article

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