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From First Light to Reionization; Preface; Preface; Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1 First Light and Reionization; 1.2 The Cosmological Framework; 1.3 Organization of this Book; 1.4 Key Observations in this Field; Part 1 Theory; 2 The First Stars; 2.1 Overview; 2.1.1 First Light; 2.1.2 Forming the First Stars; 2.1.3 The Legacy of the First Stars; 2.2 Before the First Stars; 2.2.1 Recombination and Residual Ionization Fraction; 2.2.2 The Formation of Molecular Hydrogen; 2.2.3 Cooling Functions; 2.3 Forming the First Stars; 2.3.1 Perturbations in the Early Universe |
2.3.2 Collapse of Perturbations in the Early Universe2.3.3 Cooling and the Jeans Instability; 2.3.4 Properties of the First Stars; 2.3.5 Remnants and Signatures of a Population III; 2.4 Primordial HII Regions; 2.5 What if Dark Matter is not Cold?; 2.6 Hints for Further Study; 3 The First Star Clusters and Galaxies; 3.1 Overview; 3.2 Subsequent Generations of Stars; 3.2.1 Second-Generation Population III Stars; 3.2.2 Population III Stars Forming in Self-Shielding Halos; 3.2.3 Late Population III Star Formation by Atomic-Hydrogen Cooling in Massive Halos |
3.2.4 Termination of the First Stars Phase3.3 Containing Gas in the Halos of Population III Stars; 3.3.1 Ionization Heating and Gas Temperature; 3.3.2 The Escape of Gas Heated by Ionization; 3.3.3 The Escape of Gas Following a Supernova Explosion; 3.3.4 Population II.5; 3.4 The First Star Clusters; 3.4.1 Clusters of Population III Stars and of Metal-Poor Stars; 3.4.2 The Origin of Globular Clusters; 3.5 The First Galaxies; 3.6 The First Active Galactic Nuclei; 3.6.1 Population III Black Holes; 3.6.2 Black-Hole Mergers; 3.6.3 The Highest-Redshift QSOs; 3.6.4 Direct Collapse to Black Holes |
3.7 Low-Metallicity HII Regions3.8 Numerical Techniques and Their Limitations; 3.8.1 Collisionless Dynamics; 3.8.2 Collisionless Dynamics: Particle-Mesh Codes; 3.8.3 Collisionless Dynamics: Treecodes; 3.8.4 Gas Dynamics; 3.8.5 Gas Dynamics: Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics; 3.8.6 Gas Dynamics: Eulerian Codes; 3.8.7 Improving Resolution Through Mesh Refinement; 3.8.8 Radiative Transfer; 3.9 Hints for Further Study; 4 Cosmic Reionization; 4.1 Overview; 4.2 The Properties of the Sources of Reionization; 4.2.1 The Surface Brightness of Reionization Sources; 4.2.2 Reionization in a Hydrogen-Only IGM |
4.2.3 Reionization in a Hydrogen-Helium IGM4.2.4 Results for a Homogeneous IGM; 4.2.5 Mean Metallicity at Reionization; 4.3 Adding Realism to the Calculations; 4.3.1 Escape of Ionizing Photons; 4.3.2 Clumpy IGM; 4.3.3 Two-Parameter Models; 4.4 Luminosity Function of Ionizing Sources; 4.4.1 Detecting Lyman α from Ionizing Sources; 4.5 Reionization by Population III Stars; 4.6 How Is the Intergalactic Medium Enriched?; 4.7 Reheating of the Intergalactic Medium; 4.8 Keeping the Intergalactic Medium Ionized; 4.9 Hints for Further Study; Part 2 Observational Techniques and their Results |
5 Studying the Epoch of Reionization of Hydrogen |