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EnglishEstimating the intergalactic medium ionization level of a region needs proper treatment of the reionization process for a large representative volume of the universe. The clumping factor, a parameter which accounts for the effect of recombinations in unresolved, smallscale structures, aids in achieving the required accuracy for the reionization history even in simulations with low spatial resolution. In this paper, we study for the first time the redshift evolution of clumping factors of different ionized species of H and He in a small but very high resolution simulation of the reionization process. We investigate the dependence of the value and redshift evolution of clumping factors on their definition, the ionization level of the gas, the grid resolution, box size and mean dimensionless density of the simulations. © 2014 The Authors.Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.
| Titolo: | Clumping factors of H II, He II and He III | |
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| Data di pubblicazione: | 2014 | |
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| Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1365 | |
| Parole Chiave: | Cosmology: theory; Dark ages,reionization,first stars; Intergalactic medium; Methods: numerical; Radiative transfer; Space and Planetary Science; Astronomy and Astrophysics | |
| Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11384/72322 | |
| Appare nelle tipologie: | 1.1 Articolo in rivista |
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