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Intergalactic Ultraviolet Background

The Intergalactic Ultraviolet Background is a diffuse electromagnetic radiation field in the ultraviolet wavelength range that permeates the space between galaxies, originating primarily from the integrated emission of quasars and star-forming galaxies throughout cosmic history.

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Intergalactic Uv Background

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102

Formation of the First Supermassive Black Holes

Volker Bromm, Abraham Loeb · The Astrophysical Journal · 2003 · 805 citations · Full text

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Evidence of patchy hydrogen reionization from an extreme Lyα trough below redshift six

George D. Becker, James S. Bolton, Piero Madau et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2015 · 423 citations · Full text

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Metallicity of the Intergalactic Medium Using Pixel Statistics. II. The Distribution of Metals as Traced by C<scp>iv</scp>

Joop Schaye, Anthony Aguirre, Tae‐Sun Kim et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 2003 · 393 citations · Full text

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Galaxies at<i>z</i>∼ 6: The UV Luminosity Function and Luminosity Density from 506 HUDF, HUDF Parallel ACS Field, and GOODS<i>i</i>‐Dropouts

R. J. Bouwens, G. D. Illingworth, John P. Blakeslee et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 2006 · 354 citations · Full text

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A cosmic UV/X-ray background model update

Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2020 · 229 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. CF
    C. Fechner

    Universität Hamburg, Germany

    5 publications · 224 citations

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  2. PM
    Piero Madau

    University of California, Santa Cruz, United States

    5 publications · 701 citations

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  3. DR
    D. Reimers

    Universität Hamburg, Germany

    4 publications · 107 citations

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  4. JS
    Joop Schaye

    Leiden University, Netherlands

    4 publications · 635 citations

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  5. AA
    Anthony Aguirre

    University of California, Santa Cruz, United States

    4 publications · 696 citations

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Institutions

206

  1. Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

    Heidelberg, Germany

    12 h-index

    18 publications

    1.4K citations

  2. Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, United States

    8 h-index

    10 publications

    574 citations

  3. University of California, Santa Cruz

    Santa Cruz, United States

    8 h-index

    11 publications

    2.2K citations

  4. Leiden University

    Leiden, The Netherlands

    8 h-index

    12 publications

    992 citations

  5. Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam

    Potsdam, Germany

    7 h-index

    13 publications

    855 citations

  6. Space Telescope Science Institute

    Baltimore, United States

    7 h-index

    26 publications

    3.5K citations

  7. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    14 publications

    2.2K citations

  8. National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

    Mitaka-shi, Japan

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    380 citations

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  1. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 39 publications · 3.7K citations

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  2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

    25 publications · 1.8K citations

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  3. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    8 publications · 382 citations

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  4. eScholarship (California Digital Library)

    Repository · 4 publications · 267 citations

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