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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The exploration of the first billion years of the history of the Universe, from the so-called Dark Ages to cosmic reionisation, represents one of the great challenges of contemporary astrophysics and one of the main drivers for future observational facilities. The book contains the elaborated notes of 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 history of cosmic star formation, distant galaxies, cosmic reionisation and the cosmic infrared background are the main topics treated. This book provides an accessible and up-to-date review of the field and will be useful to graduate students of astronomy, cosmologists, physicists and researchers.
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Abraham (Avi) Loeb is an American/Israeli theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology. Professor Loeb serves as Chair of the Harvard Astronomy department and is also director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) at Harvard University. Loeb was born in Israel in 1962 and took part in the national Talpiot program before receiving a graduate degree in Plasma Physics at age 24 from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Between 1988-1993, Loeb was long-term member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he started to work in theoretical astrophysics. In 1993 he moved to Harvard University as an assistant professor in the department of astronomy, where he was tenured three years later. Loeb was given a number of awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002.
Loeb has worked on a broad range of research areas in astrophysics and cosmology, including the first stars, the epoch of reionization, the formation and evolution of massive black holes, gravitational lensing by planets, gamma-ray bursts at high redshifts, 21cm cosmology, and imaging black hole silhouettes. Some of his papers are considered as pioneering in areas that have become by now the focus of established communities of astrophysicists. In particular, Loeb was among the first theorists to trigger the current research on the first stars and quasars, and the earliest gamma-ray bursts. In a series of papers with his students and postdocs, he addressed how and when the first stars and black holes formed and what effects they had on the young universe.
In 2006 Loeb was featured in a cover story of TIME magazine on the first stars and in a Scientific American article on the Dark Ages of the Universe. In 2008 Loeb was featured in a cover story of Smithsonian magazine on black holes and in two cover stories of Astronomy Magazine, one on the collision between the Milky-Way and Andromeda and the second on the future state of our Universe. In 2009, Loeb reviewed in a Scientific American article a new technique for imaging black hole silhouettes. His latest book, entitled "How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form?", has been published by Princeton University Press in 2010. The video of a public "author night" lecture about the latest book is available at http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/dvlwrap/special/pubaff/AviLoeb_10-21-2010.mov
Loeb has worked on a broad range of research areas in astrophysics and cosmology, including the first stars, the epoch of reionization, the formation and evolution of massive black holes, gravitational lensing by planets, gamma-ray bursts at high redshifts, 21cm cosmology, and imaging black hole silhouettes. Some of his papers are considered as pioneering in areas that have become by now the focus of established communities of astrophysicists. In particular, Loeb was among the first theorists to trigger the current research on the first stars and quasars, and the earliest gamma-ray bursts. In a series of papers with his students and postdocs, he addressed how and when the first stars and black holes formed and what effects they had on the young universe.
In 2006 Loeb was featured in a cover story of TIME magazine on the first stars and in a Scientific American article on the Dark Ages of the Universe. In 2008 Loeb was featured in a cover story of Smithsonian magazine on black holes and in two cover stories of Astronomy Magazine, one on the collision between the Milky-Way and Andromeda and the second on the future state of our Universe. In 2009, Loeb reviewed in a Scientific American article a new technique for imaging black hole silhouettes. His latest book, entitled "How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form?", has been published by Princeton University Press in 2010. The video of a public "author night" lecture about the latest book is available at http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/dvlwrap/special/pubaff/AviLoeb_10-21-2010.mov
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rest wavelength, ionizing intensity, star forming sources, ionized bubbles, collapsing halos, cosmic reionization, halo mass function, collapsed fraction, cosmic scatter, past star formation history, mean overdensity, collapse fraction, stellar mass density, halo mass distribution, reionization redshift, dwarf halos, neutral hydrogen fraction, reionization history, bubble overlap, escape fraction, reionization epoch, early star formation, virial temperature, reionization process, cosmic variance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
First Light, Observations of the High Redshift Universe, First Stars, Cosmological Feedbacks, Big Bang, Milky Way, Redshift Fig, Hubble Space Telescope, Einstein-de Sitter, James Webb Space Telescope, Monthly Notices Roy, Gemini Deep Deep Survey, Monte Carlo, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Spitzer Space Telescope, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Dark Ages, Mac Low, Thirty Meter Telescope, New York, General Relativity, Saas-Fee Advanced Courses Browse Sample Pages:
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rest wavelength, ionizing intensity, star forming sources, ionized bubbles, collapsing halos, cosmic reionization, halo mass function, collapsed fraction, cosmic scatter, past star formation history, mean overdensity, collapse fraction, stellar mass density, halo mass distribution, reionization redshift, dwarf halos, neutral hydrogen fraction, reionization history, bubble overlap, escape fraction, reionization epoch, early star formation, virial temperature, reionization process, cosmic variance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
First Light, Observations of the High Redshift Universe, First Stars, Cosmological Feedbacks, Big Bang, Milky Way, Redshift Fig, Hubble Space Telescope, Einstein-de Sitter, James Webb Space Telescope, Monthly Notices Roy, Gemini Deep Deep Survey, Monte Carlo, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Spitzer Space Telescope, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Dark Ages, Mac Low, Thirty Meter Telescope, New York, General Relativity, Saas-Fee Advanced Courses Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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