Saas-Fee Advanced Course

Saas-Fee Advanced Course 36. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy

By: Abraham Loeb, Daniel Schaerer (Editor), Angela Hempel (Editor)

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Hardcover | 5 December 2007

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The exploration of the first billion years of the history of the Universe represents one of the great challenges of contemporary astrophysics. 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: Abraham Loeb, Andrea Ferrara, and Richard Ellis. The formation of the first stars and black holes, the initial mass function, feedback effects, early dust formation, the cosmic star formation history, distant galaxies, cosmic reionisation and the cosmic infrared background are the main topics treated. This book contains an accessible and up-to-date review of the field and will be useful to graduate students of astronomy, cosmologists, physicists and researchers. The topic of this book is particularly timely, as many new important observational facilities are being built, for which "first light in the universe" is one of the main science drivers.

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Non-Fiction Science Astronomy, Space & Time Cosmology & The Universe Physics Relativity Physics Theoretical & Mathematical Astronomy Applied Physics Geophysics Classical Mathematics Gravity

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First Light	p. 1
Opening Remarks	p. 1
Excavating the Universe for Clues About Its History	p. 2
Background Cosmological Model	p. 3
Nonlinear Growth	p. 36
Fragmentation of the First Gaseous Objects to Stars	p. 47
Supermassive Black Holes	p. 72
Radiative Feedback from the First Sources of Light	p. 82
Feedback from Galactic Outflows	p. 102
The Frontier of 21 cm Cosmology	p. 113
Major Challenge for Future Theoretical Research	p. 137
References	p. 150
Cosmological Feedbacks from the First Stars	p. 161
Star Formation in Primordial Gas	p. 162
The Initial Mass Function	p. 170
First Stars	p. 180
Observational Signatures of First Stars	p. 191
Blastwaves and Winds	p. 203
Mechanical Feedbacks in Cosmology	p. 210
Additional Feedback Processes	p. 228
Early Cosmic Dust	p. 236
The Intergalactic Medium	p. 248
References	p. 256
Observations of the High Redshift Universe	p. 259
Role of Observations in Cosmology & Galaxy Formation	p. 259
Galaxies & The Hubble Sequence	p. 272
Cosmic Star Formation Histories	p. 283
Stellar Mass Assembly	p. 295
Witnessing the End of Cosmic Reionization	p. 311
Into the Dark Ages: Lyman Dropouts	p. 320
Lyman Alpha Emitters and Gravitational Lensing	p. 330
Cosmic Infrared Background	p. 344
Epilogue: Future Prospects	p. 353
References	p. 359
Acknowledgments	p. 365
Index	p. 367
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