Radiative transfer through the Intergalactic Medium

Details Radiative transfer through the Intergalactic Medium Radiative transfer through the Intergalactic Medium

2003-12-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0312524v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.348:L43,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 7 figures, letter accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07567.x

We use a probabilistic method to compute the propagation of an ionization front corresponding to the re-ionization of the intergalactic medium in a LCDM cosmology, including both hydrogen and helium. The effects of radiative transfer substantially boost the temperature of the ionized gas over the case of uniform re-ionization. The resulting temperature-density relation of the ionized gas is both non-monotonic and multiple-valued, reflecting the non-local character of radiative transfer and suggesting that a single polytropic relation between local gas density and temperatue is a poor description of the thermodynamic state of baryons in the post-reionization universe.

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