The Gunn-Peterson Effect from Underdense Regions in a Photoionized Intergalactic Medium
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Reionization of the Intergalactic Medium and the Damping Wing of the Gunn-Peterson Trough
Observations of high-redshift quasars show that the IGM must have been reionized at some redshift z > 5. If a source of radiation could be observed at the rest-frame Lyα wavelength, at a sufficiently high redshift where some of the IGM in the line-of-sight was not yet reionized, the Gunn-Peterson trough should be present. Longward of the Lyα wavelength, a damping wing should be observed caused ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Astrophysical Journal
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0004-637X,1538-4357
DOI: 10.1086/176072