Heating and Cooling of the Early Intergalactic Medium by Resonance Photons
Heating and Cooling of the Early Intergalactic Medium by Resonance Photons
During the epoch of reionization a large number of photons were produced with frequencies below the hydrogen Lyman limit. After redshifting into the closest resonance, these photons underwent multiple scatterings with atoms. We examine the effect of these scatterings on the temperature of the neutral intergalactic medium (IGM). Continuum photons, …