Insights into Cosmic Reionization from the First Three Billion Years of IGM Evolution

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• George Becker (Cambridge)
• Wednesday 26 September 2012, 14:00-15:00
• Nuffield G13.

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When and how the intergalactic medium became reionized reflects much of the key physics governing the formation of the first galaxies and quasars. A variety of observations have now begun to place rough constraints on when hydrogen (and later helium) reionization occurred. A more robust understanding, however, requires reconciling what we know about the ionizing sources with the long-term evolution of the IGM . I will present new measurements of the temperature and ionization state of the IGM in the reionization and post-reionization epochs. Combined with ground- and space-based observations of high-redshift galaxies, these measurements are providing new insights into the properties of the first galaxies, and a clearer picture of how these sources were able to ionize their surroundings.

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