The first galaxies in the universe /
"This book provides a comprehensive, self-contained introduction to one of the most exciting frontiers in astrophysics today: the quest to understand how the oldest and most distant galaxies in our universe first formed. Until now, most research on this question has been theoretical, but the ne...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2013
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| Series: | Princeton series in astrophysics.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- 12. The 21-cm line : Radiative transfer of the 21-cm line ; The spin temperature ; The brightness temperature of the spin-flip background ; The monopole of the brightness temperature ; Statistical fluctuations in the spin-flip background ; Spin-flip fluctuations during the cosmic dawn ; mapping the spin-flip background
- 13. Other probes of the first galaxies : Secondary cosmic microwave background anisotropies from the cosmic dawn ; Diffuse backgrounds from the cosmic dawn ; The cross-correlation of different probes ; The fossil record of the local group.
