宇宙黎明与再电离：前沿中的天体物理学
星系天体物理
2019-03-12 v1
摘要
宇宙黎明与再电离时代标志着宇宙中恒星、星系与黑洞种子首次形成以及星系际介质从中性变为电离态的时期。尽管多波长观测取得了实质性进展，这一时期的天体物理过程仍是最不为人所理解的，我们对星系、黑洞与结构形成的现有模型存在很大不确定性。本白皮书概述了当前知识状况以及 2020 年代地基与天基天文设施的预期科学成果。我们随后提出了 2020 年代末至 2030 年代中期新设施的一系列科学目标与目的，这些将实现对再电离时代与宇宙黎明关键天体物理过程的确定性测量。
引用
@article{arxiv.1903.03629,
title = {Cosmic Dawn and Reionization: Astrophysics in the Final Frontier},
author = {Asantha Cooray and James Aguirre and Yacine Ali-Haimoud and Marcelo Alvarez and Phil Appleton and Lee Armus and George Becker and Jamie Bock and Rebecca Bowler and Judd Bowman and Matt Bradford and Patrick Breysse and Volker Bromm and Jack Burns and Karina Caputi and Marco Castellano and Tzu-Ching Chang and Ranga Chary and Hsin Chiang and Joanne Cohn and Chris Conselice and Jean-Gabriel Cuby and Frederick Davies and Pratika Dayal and Olivier Dore and Duncan Farrah and Andrea Ferrara and Steven Finkelstein and Steven Furlanetto and Bryna Hazelton and Caroline Heneka and Anne Hutter and Daniel Jacobs and Leon Koopmans and Ely Kovetz and Paul La Piante and Olivier Le Fevre and Adrian Liu and Jingzhe Ma and Yin-Zhe Ma and Sangeeta Malhotra and Yi Mao and Dan Marrone and Kiyoshi Masui and Matthew McQuinn and Jordan Mirocha and Daniel Mortlock and Eric Murphy and Hooshang Nayyeri and Priya Natarajan and Thyagarajan Nithyanandan and Aaron Parsons and Roser Pello and Alexandra Pope and James Rhoads and Jason Rhodes and Dominik Riechers and Brant Robertson and Claudia Scarlata and Stephen Serjeant and Benjamin Saliwanchik and Ruben Salvaterra and Rafffaella Schneider and Marta Silva and Martin Sahlén and Mario G. Santos and Eric Switzer and Pasquale Temi and Hy Trac and Aparna Venkatesan and Eli Visbal and Matias Zaldarriaga and Michael Zemcov and Zheng Zheng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.03629},
year = {2019}
}
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Science White paper submitted to Astro2020 Decadal Survey