HyRec: A fast and highly accurate primordial hydrogen and helium recombination code by Yacine Ali-Haïmoud and Christopher M. Hirata 2026-11-05
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Physical Review D 83, 043513. Section VI.B, equation (97), explicitly gives the factor four from neutral-helium spin degeneracy; the following section treats departure from Saha equilibrium.
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