E-Book, Englisch, Band 36, 371 Seiten
Reihe: Saas-Fee Advanced Course
Loeb / Ferrara / Ellis First Light in the Universe
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-3-540-74163-3
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Saas-Fee Advanced Course 36. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy
E-Book, Englisch, Band 36, 371 Seiten
Reihe: Saas-Fee Advanced Course
ISBN: 978-3-540-74163-3
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
The exploration of the first billion years of the history of the Universe represents one of the great challenges of contemporary astrophysics. During this time, the first structures start to form the first stars, galaxies, and possibly also soon the first quasars. At the same time, light comes to the dark, neutral Universe. This book contains the worked out lectures given at the 36th Saas-Fee Advanced Course 'First Light in the Universe' by three eminent scientists in the field.
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1;Preface;5
2;Contents;7
3;List of Previous Saas-Fee Advanced Courses;9
4;First Light;11
4.1;1 Opening Remarks;11
4.2;2 Excavating the Universe for Clues About Its History;12
4.3;3 Background Cosmological Model;13
4.4;4 Nonlinear Growth;46
4.5;5 Fragmentation of the First Gaseous Objects to Stars;57
4.6;6 Supermassive Black Holes;82
4.7;7 Radiative Feedback from the First Sources of Light;92
4.8;8 Feedback from Galactic Outflows;112
4.9;9 The Frontier of 21 cm Cosmology;123
4.10;10 Major Challenge for Future Theoretical Research;147
4.11;References;160
5;Cosmological Feedbacks from the First Stars;170
5.1;1 Star Formation in Primordial Gas;171
5.2;2 The Initial Mass Function;179
5.3;3 First Stars;189
5.4;4 Observational Signatures of First Stars;200
5.5;5 Blastwaves and Winds;212
5.6;6 Mechanical Feedbacks in Cosmology;219
5.7;7 Additional Feedback Processes;237
5.8;8 Early Cosmic Dust;245
5.9;9 The Intergalactic Medium;257
5.10;References;265
6;Observations of the High Redshift Universe;268
6.1;1 Role of Observations in Cosmology & Galaxy Formation;268
6.2;2 Galaxies & The Hubble Sequence;281
6.3;3 Cosmic Star Formation Histories;292
6.4;4 Stellar Mass Assembly;304
6.5;5 Witnessing the End of Cosmic Reionization;320
6.6;6 Into the Dark Ages: Lyman Dropouts;329
6.7;7 Lyman Alpha Emitters and Gravitational Lensing;339
6.8;8 Cosmic Infrared Background;353
6.9;9 Epilogue: Future Prospects;362
6.10;References;368
7;Acknowledgments;374
7.1;First Light by A. Loeb;374
7.2;Cosmological Feedbacks from the First Stars by A. Ferrara;374
7.3;Observations of the High Redshift Universe by R. S. Ellis;374
8;Index;376
