Effect of Radiative Feedbacks for Resonant Transitions during Cosmological Recombination
Abstract
The inhibition of the total HI transition rate by delayed resonant reabsorption of HI photons by HI line which is possible due to cosmological redshift is considered semi-analytically. The method taking into account this effect in the frame of simple three-level approximation model of recombination is suggested. It is confirmed that the resonant feedbacks affect ionization fraction at the level about 0.2% for the epoch of last scattering. Similar consideration of HeI HeI feedback for helium is provided. It is confirmed that allowance of this feedback leads to increase of predicted free electron fraction by 0.12% at . It is shown that taking into account absorption and thermalization of HeI resonant superequilibrium photons (during their redshifting to the HeI frequency) by small amount of neutral hydrogen ( of total number of hydrogen atoms and ions) existing in helium recombination epoch is important for correct consideration of this helium feedback.
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@article{arxiv.0912.5454,
title = {Effect of Radiative Feedbacks for Resonant Transitions during Cosmological Recombination},
author = {E. E Kholupenko and A. V. Ivanchik and D. A Varshalovich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.5454},
year = {2010}
}
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22 pages, 11 figures, 1 table