The race between stars and quasars in reionizing cosmic hydrogen

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Loeb, Abraham ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

High redshift galaxies; Massive black holes

Indexed keywords

EID: 65649113233     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/03/022     Document Type: Article

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