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A Step to the Reionization Epoch

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

P. A. Shaver*
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, D-85748 Garching bei München, Germany

Abstract

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The reionization epoch may lie not far beyond the most distant known quasars and galaxies, and it might be detectable in a variety of ways. One possibility discussed here is to search for an all-sky spectral step produced by the redshifted HI that was present prior to reionization.

Type
Part 2: Extra Galactic Neutral Hydrogen and Cosmology
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2002 

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