Do we need stars to reionize the universe at high redshifts? Early reionization by decaying heavy sterile neutrinos

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 600, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 26-31

  Hansen, Steen H ^a   Haiman, Zoltán ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology: theory; Intergalactic medium; Neutrinos

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642290882     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/379636     Document Type: Article

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