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Re-ionization of the IGM — Massive Stars versus QSOs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Piero Madau
Piero Madau*
Affiliation:
Astronomy and Astrophysics Department, University of California, 477 Clark Kerr Hall, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Abstract

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In popular cold dark matter cosmological scenarios, stars may have first appeared in significant numbers around a redshift of 10 or so, as the gas within protogalactic halos with virial temperatures Tvir ≃ 20 000 K (corresponding to masses comparable to those of present-day dwarf ellipticals) cooled rapidly due to atomic processes and fragmented. It is this ‘second generation’ of subgalactic stellar systems, aided perhaps by an early population of accreting black holes in their nuclei, which may have generated the ultraviolet radiation and mechanical energy that ended the cosmic ‘dark ages’ and reheated and re-ionized most of the hydrogen in the universe by a redshift of z = 6. The detailed history of the universe during, and soon after these crucial formative stages, depends on the power-spectrum of density fluctuations on small scales and on a complex network of poorly understood feedback mechanisms, and is one of the missing links in galaxy formation and evolution studies.

Type
Part 4. Feedback from Massive Stars
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 212: A Massive Star Odyssey: From Main Sequence to Supernova , 2003 , pp. 687 - 695
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2003 

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