The L? line profile and the spin temperature of hydrogen in the intergalactic medium

Astrophysics ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 140-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Varshalovich ◽  
R. A. Syunyaev
2006 ◽  
Vol 637 (1) ◽  
pp. L1-L4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Kuhlen ◽  
Piero Madau ◽  
Ryan Montgomery

2020 ◽  
Vol 493 (4) ◽  
pp. 4728-4747 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Ghara ◽  
S K Giri ◽  
G Mellema ◽  
B Ciardi ◽  
S Zaroubi ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT We derive constraints on the thermal and ionization states of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at redshift ≈ 9.1 using new upper limits on the 21-cm power spectrum measured by the LOFAR radio telescope and a prior on the ionized fraction at that redshift estimated from recent cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations. We have used results from the reionization simulation code grizzly and a Bayesian inference framework to constrain the parameters which describe the physical state of the IGM. We find that, if the gas heating remains negligible, an IGM with ionized fraction ≳0.13 and a distribution of the ionized regions with a characteristic size ≳ 8 h−1 comoving megaparsec (Mpc) and a full width at half-maximum (FWHM) ≳16 h−1 Mpc is ruled out. For an IGM with a uniform spin temperature TS ≳ 3 K, no constraints on the ionized component can be computed. If the large-scale fluctuations of the signal are driven by spin temperature fluctuations, an IGM with a volume fraction ≲0.34 of heated regions with a temperature larger than CMB, average gas temperature 7–160 K, and a distribution of the heated regions with characteristic size 3.5–70 h−1 Mpc and FWHM of ≲110 h−1 Mpc is ruled out. These constraints are within the 95 per cent credible intervals. With more stringent future upper limits from LOFAR at multiple redshifts, the constraints will become tighter and will exclude an increasingly large region of the parameter space.


1994 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 365-367
Author(s):  
E. V. Kononovich ◽  
O. B. Smirnova ◽  
P. Heinzel ◽  
P. Kotrč

AbstractThe Hα filtergrams obtained at Tjan-Shan High Altitude Observatory near Alma-Ata (Moscow University Station) were measured in order to specify the bright rims contrast at different points along the line profile (0.0; ± 0.25; ± 0.5; ± 0.75 and ± 1.0 Å). The mean contrast value in the line center is about 25 percent. The bright rims interpretation as the bases of magnetic structures supporting the filaments is suggested.


1979 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 53-55
Author(s):  
R.W. Milkey ◽  
J.N. Heasley ◽  
E.J. Schmahl ◽  
O. Engvold

The effect of partial frequency redistribution in the formation of Lyman α in the chromosphere has been discussed by Milkey and Mihalas (1973) and others, and it has been shown that in this case the coherency of scattering in the wings of the line substantially influences the line profile. Although there are non-negligible sources for La photons within a prominence, a large fraction of the emergent line photons are due to scattering of photons incident on the surface of the prominence so that one expects that in a prominence the frequency redistribution processes will play an important role in determining the emergent intensity.


2006 ◽  
Vol 2006 (suppl_23_2006) ◽  
pp. 129-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Schafler ◽  
K. Nyilas ◽  
S. Bernstorff ◽  
L. Zeipper ◽  
M. Zehetbauer ◽  
...  

1998 ◽  
Vol 116 (1) ◽  
pp. 455-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Muzerolle ◽  
Lee Hartmann ◽  
Nuria Calvet

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