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Searching for the Reionization Epoch

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

P. A. Shaver
P. A. Shaver*
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, D-85748 Garching bei München, Germany

Abstract

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Recent advances have led to the discoveries of both galaxies and quasars out to z ~ 6. The reionization epoch itself, thought to lie somewhere in the range 6 < zi < 15, may be within reach over the next decade. Prospects for the detection of the first luminous objects in the Universe are reviewed - the objects that reionized the Universe and brought an end to the “Dark Ages”. Alternative possibilities for detecting the reionization epoch are also discussed, including direct detection of the intergalactic medium itself at that epoch.

Type
Research Article
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 204: The Extragalactic Infrared Background and its Cosmological Implication , 2001 , pp. 373 - 384
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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