| Inhomogeneous Helium Reionization and the Equation of State of the Intergalactic Medium (2007) | |||||||||
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| The temperature of the intergalactic medium (IGM) is set by the competition between photoheating and adiabatic cooling, which are usually assumed to define a tight equation of state in which the temperature increases monotonically with density. We use a semi-analytic model, accurate at low to moderate IGM densities (. Comment: in press at ApJ, 16 pages, 13 figures | |||||||||
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