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Effect of Radiative Feedbacks for Resonant Transitions during Cosmological Recombination

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2010-04-22 v1

Abstract

The inhibition of the total HI n1n\leftrightarrow 1 transition rate by delayed resonant reabsorption of HI (n+1)1(n+1)\to 1 photons by HI n1n\to 1 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 21P11S2^1P\leftrightarrow 1^1S \Rightarrow HeI 23P11S2^3P\leftrightarrow 1^1S 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 z2300z\simeq 2300. It is shown that taking into account absorption and thermalization of HeI 21P11S2^1P\leftrightarrow 1^1S resonant superequilibrium photons (during their redshifting to the HeI 23P11S2^3P\leftrightarrow 1^1S frequency) by small amount of neutral hydrogen (10710410^{\rm -7} - 10^{\rm -4} 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