The Spin Temperature and 21 cm Brightness of the Intergalactic Medium in the Pre-Reionization era

We use numerical hydrodynamical simulations of early structure formation in a CDM universe to investigate the spin temperature and 21 cm brightness of the diffuse intergalactic medium (IGM) prior to the epoch of cosmic reionization, at z < 20. In the absence of any radiative heating, collisions b...

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Published in:The Astrophysical journal 2006-01, Vol.637 (1), p.L1-L4
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