Clustering of Ionizing Sources
Astrophysics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
Using existing models for the evolution of clustering we show that the first sources are likely to be highly biased and thus strongly clustered. We compute intensity fluctuations for clustered sources in a uniform IGM. The strong fluctuations imply the universe was reheated and reionized in a highly inhomogeneous fashion.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9812318,
title = {Clustering of Ionizing Sources},
author = {Siang Peng Oh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9812318},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of "After the Dark Ages: When Galaxies were Young (the Universe at 2<z<5)", 9th Annual October Astrophysics Conference in Maryland