The photoheating of the intergalactic medium in synthesis models of the UV background
(2015)
Journal Article
Puchwein, E., Bolton, J. S., Haehnelt, M. G., Madau, P., Becker, G. D., & Haardt, F. (2015). The photoheating of the intergalactic medium in synthesis models of the UV background. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 450(4), 4081-4097. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv773
We compare cosmological hydrodynamical simulations combined with the homogeneous metagalactic UV background (UVB) of Haardt & Madau (2012) (HM2012) to observations of the Lyman-alpha forest that are sensitive to the thermal and ionization state of th... Read More about The photoheating of the intergalactic medium in synthesis models of the UV background.