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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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