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Cosmic Reionization and the First Nonlinear Structures in the Universe

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Understanding the Epoch of Cosmic Reionization

Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library ((ASSL,volume 423))

Abstract

In this Introduction, we outline expectations for when and how the hydrogen and helium atoms in the universe turned from neutral to ionized, focusing on the earliest, least well understood stages, and emphasize the most important open questions. We include a historical summary, and highlight the role of reionization as one of the few milestones in the evolution of the universe since the Big Bang, and its status as a unique probe of the beginning stages of structure formation.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    P.A.R. Ade et al. (Planck Collaboration), Planck 2015 results. XIII. Cosmological parameters, A&A, submitted, e-print arXiv:1502.01589.

  2. 2.

    This topic was recently revisited [55] in a more rigorous analysis, following the time-dependent, non-equilibrium H2 population levels. This yielded the same conclusion, i.e. that the post-recombination “intergalactic” H2 abundance is negligibly low.

  3. 3.

    As an amusing aside: the highest redshift in our Hubble volume where we may find a star in a collapsed minihalo is z = 65, corresponding to an \(\approx 8\sigma\) fluctuation on the mass scale 105 M⊙ [69].

  4. 4.

    For reference, the largest existing N-body simulation is the Millennium-XXL project with 3 × 1011 particles.

  5. 5.

    Reionization must end by \(z \sim 6\), as shown recently using the fraction of dark Lyα and Lyβ pixels in a sample of 22 quasars [139].

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I thank my students and collaborators, who taught me a lot about reionization, the US federal agencies NASA and NSF for funding much of my research, and Andrei Mesinger for the initiative to put together this volume, and his patience and dedication during the production process.

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