Improved measurements of the intergalactic medium temperature around quasars: Possible evidence for the initial stages of Heii reionization at z ≃ 6

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 419, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2880-2892

  Bolton, James S ^a   Becker, George D ^b   Raskutti, Sudhir ^a   Wyithe, J Stuart B ^a   Haehnelt, Martin G ^b   Sargent, Wallace L W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Dark ages, reionization, first stars; Intergalactic medium; Quasars: absorption lines

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; THERMAL LOGGING;

COSMOLOGY OBSERVATIONS; DARK AGE; DATA SET; FIRST STAR; INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM; MEASUREMENTS OF; MEDIUM TEMPERATURE; NEAR ZONE; QUASARS ABSORPTION LINES; REIONIZATION;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 84855581413     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19929.x     Document Type: Article

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