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From first light to reionization :the end of the Dark Ages

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English

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From first light to reionization :the end of the Dark Ages

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Weinheim

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Wiley-VCH

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c2009

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xi, 218 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references )p. 203-212( and index

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Massimo Stiavelli

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1. Introduction: Basic review of the early Universe Why reionization is important, what do we expect about first light. Basics about growth of perturbations; basics about CMB 2. Reionization Description of the process of reionization of the Universe; simple analytical considerations; comparison with existing observations 3. From Reionization to First Light This chapter describes some of the issues regarding the transition from Population III to Population II stars as well as the constraints that can be derived from WMAP 4. First light Description of the formation of the first structures This chapter describes the state of the art of the numerical modeling and also some analytical considerations 5. Probing the dark ages with galaxies This chapter highlights future perspectives of studying the dark ages using galaxies as probes; it will discuss future 03m grounds based telescopes, WFC3, JWST 6. Probing the dark ages using backgrounds Appendix: Relevant formulae and results

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، Cosmology

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Stiavelli, Massimo.

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