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Recombination dynamics of primordial hydrogen and helium (He I) in the universe |
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| Authors: | V K Dubrovich S I Grachev |
| Institution: | (1) Special Astrophysical Observatory, St. Petersburg Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 196140, Russia;(2) Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pulkovskoe sh. 65, St. Petersburg, 196140, Russia;(3) Sobolev Astronomical Institute, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskii pr. 28, St. Petersburg, 198504, Russia |
| Abstract: | We calculated the ionization fraction for hydrogen and helium (He I) as a function of the redshift z by including the two-photon decays of high hydrogen and parahelium levels and the radiative transfer in the helium 23P1 ? 11S0 intercombination line. We show that this yields corrections of no more than a few percent to the ionization fraction for hydrogen and speeds up significantly the recombination for helium compared to the recent works by Seager et al. (1999, 2000), in which these effects were disregarded. |
| Keywords: | cosmology early Universe primordial helium recombination radio astronomy cosmic microwave background radiation |
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