The signature of the first stars in atomic hydrogen at redshift 20

Nature

Volumn 487, Issue 7405, 2012, Pages 70-73

  Visbal, Eli ^a,b   Barkana, Rennan ^c   Fialkov, Anastasia ^c   Tseliakhovich, Dmitriy ^d   Hirata, Christopher M ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN;

ABUNDANCE; ARRAY; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROGEN; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VELOCITY; X-RAY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATOM; BARYON; COSMIC RADIATION; HEATING; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; SPECTRUM; VELOCITY; X RAY;

EID: 84863438117     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11177     Document Type: Article

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