Reionization: Characteristic scales, topology and observability

Astrophysics and Space Science

Volumn 320, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 39-43

  Iliev, Ilian T ^a,b   Pen, Ue Li ^b   McDonald, Patrick ^b   Shapiro, Paul R ^c   Mellema, Garrelt ^d   Alvarez, Marcelo A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^d ALBANOVA UNIVERSITY CENTER   (Sweden)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology: theory; Galaxies: formation; High redshift; Intergalactic medium; Methods: numerical; Radiative transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 62549106132     PISSN: 0004640X     EISSN: 1572946X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10509-008-9865-9     Document Type: Article

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