来自高红移 21 厘米谱线的天体物理学
宇宙学与河外天体物理
2009-02-19 v1
摘要
宇宙黑暗时代和再电离时代，即第一代恒星和星系形成的时期，是河外天体物理学和宇宙学最引人入胜的前沿领域之一。在此，我们描述了探测这些时代的一种令人兴奋的新探针：中性氢的 21 厘米谱线，它将使我们能够绘制整个第一代星系形成时代的中性星系际介质图。在这份白皮书中，我们描述了这些研究如何能够回答关于星系形成的两个关键问题：高红移星系的性质是什么？它们如何影响其周围的宇宙？
引用
@article{arxiv.0902.3011,
title = {Astrophysics from the Highly-Redshifted 21 cm Line},
author = {Steven Furlanetto and Adam Lidz and Abraham Loeb and Matthew McQuinn and Jonathan Pritchard and James Aguirre and Marcelo Alvarez and Donald Backer and Judd Bowman and Jack Burns and Chris Carilli and Renyue Cen and Asantha Cooray and Nickolay Gnedin and Lincoln Greenhill and Zoltan Haiman and Jacqueline Hewitt and Joseph Lazio and Andrei Mesinger and Piero Madau and Miguel Morales and S. Peng Oh and Jeffrey Peterson and Ylva Pihlstrom and Paul Shapiro and Max Tegmark and Hy Trac and Oliver Zahn and Matias Zaldarriaga},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.3011},
year = {2009}
}
备注
8 pages, 5 figures, science white paper submitted to the US Astro2010 Decadal Survey "Galaxies across Cosmic Time" Science Frontier Panel