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Evolution of the Ionizing Background at High Redshifts

Astrophysics 2015-06-24 v1
Authors: Andrew Cooke , Brian Espey , Bob Carswell
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Abstract

We use a Maximum-Likelihood analysis to constrain the value and evolution of the ionizing background for 2<z<4.5, taking account of possible systematic errors. (The paper has a more detailed abstract)

Keywords

ionizing background high redshifts maximum likelihood systematic errors

Cite

@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9609100,
  title  = {Evolution of the Ionizing Background at High Redshifts},
  author = {Andrew Cooke and Brian Espey and Bob Carswell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9609100},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

12 figures (9 of those double plots), 17 pages. Accepted by MNRAS

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