no code implementations • 6 Feb 2020 • Anson D'Aloisio, Matthew McQuinn, Hy Trac, Christopher Cain, Andrei Mesinger
The clumping factor of ionized gas (proportional to the recombination rate) rises to a peak value of $5-20$ approximately $\Delta t = 10$ Myr after ionization front passage, depending on the incident intensity, redshift, and degree to which the gas had been pre-heated by the first X-ray sources.
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies
