Measuring the redshift of reionization with a modest array of low-frequency dipoles

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Bittner, Jonathan M ^a,b   Loeb, Abraham ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

physics of the early universe; reionization; semi analytic modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955579898     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/04/038     Document Type: Article

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