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For a recent Deuterium abundance measurement and its implications for the
baryon density parameter see
Burles, S., & Tytler, D.
1998, Ap. J., 499, 699.
A short and hardly comprehensive list of references on issues related
to the reionization of the IGM includes
Arons, J., & Wingert, D. W.
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Shapiro, P. R., & Giroux, M. L.
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The use of Ly
resonant
absorption as a sensitive probe of intergalactic
neutral hydrogen was predicted indipendently by
Gunn, J. E., & Peterson, B. A.
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Shklovsky, I. S.
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The quoted upper limit to the Gunn-Peterson optical depth at z
5 is from
Songaila, A., Hu, E. M., Cowie, L. L., & McMahon, R. G.
525, L5.
The high resolution quasar spectrum shown in the Figure was taken from
Songaila, A.
1998, A. J., 115, 2184.
who also discusses the evolution of metal abundances in the
Ly forest.
An extensive discussion of the physics of the intergalactic medium
can be found in
Peebles, P. J. E.
1993, Principles of Physical Cosmology
(Princeton University Press), chapter 23.
The physics of an ionized hydrogen gas is covered in
Osterbrock, D. E.
1989, Astrophysics of Gaseous Nebulae
and Active Galactic Nuclei (University Science Books), chapters 2
and 3.
Our present understanding of the
Ly forest is summarized in
Rauch, M.
1998, Annual Rev. of Astron. and Astrophys. 36, 267.
The use of hydrodynamic cosmological simulations to make quantitative
prediction of the physical state of the IGM was pioneered by
Cen, R., Miralda-Escude', J., Ostriker, J. P., & Rauch, M.
1994, Ap. J., 437, L9.