Measuring the X-ray background in the reionization era with first generation 21 cm experiments

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Christian, Pierre ^a   Loeb, Abraham ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

reionization; X rays

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884881680     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/09/014     Document Type: Article

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