Reionization and the Cosmic Dawn with the Square Kilometre Array
Abstract
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will have a low frequency component (SKA-low) which has as one of its main science goals the study of the redshifted 21cm line from the earliest phases of star and galaxy formation in the Universe. This 21cm signal provides a new and unique window on both the formation of the first stars and accreting black holes and the later period of substantial ionization of the intergalactic medium. The signal will teach us fundamental new things about the earliest phases of structure formation, cosmology and even has the potential to lead to the discovery of new physical phenomena. Here we present a white paper with an overview of the science questions that SKA-low can address, how we plan to tackle these questions and what this implies for the basic design of the telescope.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1210.0197,
title = {Reionization and the Cosmic Dawn with the Square Kilometre Array},
author = {Garrelt Mellema and León Koopmans and Filipe Abdalla and Gianni Bernardi and Benedetta Ciardi and Soobash Daiboo and Ger de Bruyn and Kanan K. Datta and Heino Falcke and Andrea Ferrara and Ilian T. Iliev and Fabio Iocco and Vibor Jelić and Hannes Jensen and Ronniy Joseph and Hans-Rainer Kloeckner and Panos Labroupoulos and Avery Meiksin and Andrei Mesinger and Andre Offringa and V. N. Pandey and Jonathan R. Pritchard and Mario G. Santos and Dominik J. Schwarz and Benoit Semelin and Harish Vedantham and Sarod Yatawatta and Saleem Zaroubi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.0197},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in Experimental Astronomy, reformatted to 57 pages, some updated and improved figures and minor changes and updates to the text