First Light in the Universe - Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy

The exploration of the first billion years of the history of the Universe, from the so-called Dark Ages to cosmic reionisation, represents one of the great challenges of contemporary astrophysics and one of the main drivers for future observational facilities.
The book contains the elaborated notes of lectures given at the 36th Saas-Fee Advanced Course "First Light in the Universe" by three eminent scientists in the field: Abraham Loeb, Andrea Ferrara, and Richard Ellis. The formation of the first stars and black holes, the initial mass function, feedback effects, early dust formation, the history of cosmic star formation, distant galaxies, cosmic reionisation and the cosmic infrared background are the main topics treated. This book provides an accessible and up-to-date review of the field and will be useful to graduate students of astronomy, cosmologists, physicists and researchers.

List of contents

Abraham Loeb: First Light.- Andrea Ferrara: Cosmological Feedbacks from the First Stars.- Richard S. Ellis: Observations of the High Redshift Universe.

Summary

The exploration of the first billion years of the history of the Universe represents one of the great challenges of contemporary astrophysics. This book contains the worked out lectures given at the 36th Saas-Fee Advanced Course "First Light in the Universe" by three eminent scientists in the field: Abraham Loeb, Andrea Ferrara, and Richard Ellis. The formation of the first stars and black holes, the initial mass function, feedback effects, early dust formation, the cosmic star formation history, distant galaxies, cosmic reionisation and the cosmic infrared background are the main topics treated. This book contains an accessible and up-to-date review of the field and will be useful to graduate students of astronomy, cosmologists, physicists and researchers. The topic of this book is particularly timely, as many new important observational facilities are being built, for which "first light in the universe" is one of the main science drivers.

Product details

• Authors: Richard S. Ellis, Andrea Ferrara, Abraham Loeb
• Assisted by: Angela Hempel (Editor), Denis Puy (Editor), Daniel Schaerer (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.2007
• EAN: 9783540741626
• ISBN: 978-3-540-74162-6
• No. of pages: 371
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 19 mm x 242 mm
• Weight: 656 g
• Illustrations: X, 371 p.
• Series: Saas-Fee Advanced Courses; Saas-Fee Advanced Course; Saas-Fee Advanced Courses; Saas-Fee Advanced Course
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy; Gravitation, B, astronomy, Astrophysics, Gravity, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Physics and Astronomy, Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences, Relativity physics, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory