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Article Contents
- ABSTRACT
- 1.HISTORICAL PREFACE
- 2.BACKGROUND ASTROPHYSICS
- 2.1.Cosmology
- 2.2.Large-Scale Structure
- 2.3.Ionization and
recombination
- 2.4.Evolution of an
H ii region
- 3.ENDING THE COSMIC DARK AGES
- 3.1.The Dark Ages
- 3.2.The first stars
- 3.3.The first galaxies
- 3.4.The first black holes
- 4.CONSTRAINTS FROM THE EDGE OF THE
OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE
- 4.1.QSO Spectra
- 4.2.The Lyα forest
- 4.3.Cosmic microwave
background
- 4.4.Neutral hydrogen (21 cm)
absorption and emission
- 4.5.Sources of reionization
- 4.6.Summary of observations
- 5.REIONIZATION MODELING
- 5.1.Volume-averaged analytical
models
- 5.2.Semi-numeric models
- 5.3.Cosmological radiative transfer
simulations
- 5.4.Full radiation hydrodynamics
simulations
6.CONCLUSIONS
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