| RSN |
33120 |
| Dokumententyp |
monograph |
| Author(s) |
Loeb, Abraham |
| Furlanetto, Steven R. |
| TITLE |
The first galaxies in the universe |
| Place of Publ. |
Princeton, NJ [u.a.] |
| Verleger |
Princeton University Press |
| Publ. Year |
2013 |
| Physical description |
xiii, 540 p. |
| Illustrations /Technical System |
index/bibl. |
| Reihe |
Princeton Series in Astrophysics |
| ISBN(S) |
978-0-691-14491-7 |
| Signature |
AS 80/282 |
| Subject(s) |
galaxy formation |
| stellar formation |
| cosmology |
| Inhalt |
PART I. FUNDAMENTALS OF STRUCTURE FORMATION |
| Chapter 1 Introduction and Cosmological Background |
| 1.1 Preliminary Remarks - 1.2 Standard Cosmological Model - 1.3 Milestones in Cosmic Evolution - 1.4 Most Matter Is Dark |
| Chapter 2 Linear Growth of Cosmological Perturbations |
| 2.1 Growth of Linear Perturbations - 2.2 The Thermal History during the Dark Ages |
| Chapter 3 Nonlinear Structure and Halo Formation |
| 3.1 Spherical Collapse - 3.2 Cosmological Jeans Mass - 3.3 Halo Properties - 3.4 Abundance of Dark Matter Halos - 3.5 Halo Clustering in Linear Theory - 3.6 The Nonlinear Power pectra of Dark Matter and Galaxies - 3.7 Numerical Simulations of Structure Formation |
| Chapter 4 The Intergalactic Medium |
| 4.1 The Cosmic Web - 4.2 Lyman-a Absorption in the Intergalactic Medium - 4.3 Theoretical Models of the Lyman-a Forest - 4.4 The Metagalactic Ionizing Background - 4.5 The Helium-Ionizing Background - 4.6 Metal-Line Systems - 4.7 The Lyman-a Forest at z > 5 |
| PART II. THE FIRST STRUCTURES |
| Chapter 5 The First Stars |
| 5.1 From Virialized Halos to Protostars - 5.2 From Protostars to Stars - 5.3 The Second Generation of Stars: "Population III.2" - 5.4 Properties of the First Stars - 5.5 The End States of Population III Stars - 5.6 Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Brightest Explosions |
| hapter 6 Stellar Feedback and Galaxy Formation |
| 6.1 The Ultraviolet Background and H2 Photodissociation - 6.2 The X-ray Background: Positive Feedback - 6.3 Radiative Feedback: Mechanical Effects - 6.4 Galactic Superwinds and Mechanical Feedback - 6.5 Metal Enrichment and the Transition to Population II Star Formation - 6.6 The First Galaxies |
| hapter 7 Supermassive Black Holes |
| 7.1 Quasars and Black Holes: An Overview - 7.2 Basic Principles of Astrophysical Black Holes - 7.3 Accretion of Gas onto Black Holes - 7.4 The First Black Holes and Quasars - 7.5 Black Holes and Galaxies - 7.6 Black Hole Binaries - 7.7 Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Mergers |
| Chapter 8 Physics of Galaxy Evolution |
| 8.1 High-Redshift Galaxies - 8.2 Gas Accretion - 8.3 Halo Mergers - 8.4 Disk Formation - 8.5 Star Formation in Galaxies - 8.6 Black Hole Growth in Galaxies - 8.7 Feedback and Galaxy Evolution - 8.8 From Galaxy Model to Stellar Spectra - 8.9 Signatures of the Interstellar Medium - 8.10 Gravitational Lensing |
| Chapter 9 The Reionization of Intergalactic Hydrogen |
| 9.1 Propagation of Ionization Fronts - 9.2 Global Ionization History - 9.3 The Phases of Hydrogen Reionization - 9.4 The Morphology of Reionization - 9.5 Recombinations inside Ionized Regions - 9.6 Simulations of Reionization - 9.7 Statistical Properties of the Ionization Field - 9.8 Reionization by Quasars and Other Exotic Sources - 9.9 Feedback from Reionization: Photoheating |
| PART III. OBSERVATIONS OF THE COSMIC DAWN |
| Chapter 10 Surveys of High-Redshift Galaxies |
| 10.1 Telescopes for Observing High-Redshift Galaxies - 10.2 Methods for Identifying High-Redshift Galaxies - 10.3 Luminosity and Mass Functions - 10.4 The Statistics of Galaxy Surveys |
| Chapter 11 The Lyman-a Line as a Probe of the Early Universe |
| 11.1 Lyman-a Emission from Galaxies - 11.2 The Gunn-Peterson Trough - 11.3 IGM Scattering in the Blue Wing of the Lyman-a Line - 11.4 The Red Damping Wing - 11.5 The Lyman-a Forest as a Probe of the Reionization Topology - 11.6 Lyman-a halos around Distant Sources - 11.7 Lyman-a Emitters during the Reionization Era |
| Chapter 12 The 21-cm Line |
| 12.1 Radiative Transfer of the 21-cm Line - 12.2 The Spin Temperature - 12.3 The Brightness Temperature of the Spin-Flip Background - 12.4 The Monopole of the Brightness Temperature - 12.5 Statistical Fluctuations in the Spin-Flip Background - 12.6 Spin-Flip Fluctuations during the Cosmic Dawn - 12.7 Mapping the Spin-Flip Background |
| Chapter 13 Other Probes of the First Galaxies |
| 13.1 Secondary Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies from the Cosmic Dawn - 13.2 Diffuse Backgrounds from the Cosmic Dawn - 13.3 The Cross-Correlation of Different Probes - 13.4 The Fossil Record of the Local Group |
| Appendix A Useful Numbers - Appendix B Cosmological Parameters - Notes - Further Reading - Index |
