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The formation of the first stars and galaxies

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  • Volker Bromm

    (University of Texas, 2511 Speedway, Austin, Texas 78712, USA)

  • Naoki Yoshida

    (Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8568, Japan)

  • Lars Hernquist

    (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA)

  • Christopher F. McKee

    (University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA)

Abstract

Turn back the cosmic clock Nature's series of review articles on astronomy, marking the International Year of Astronomy 2009, continues with a look at the 'final frontier' in observational astronomy: the formation of the first stars, galaxies and massive black holes. At present these objects can be studied only through simulations. Today's ground-based and space-borne telescopes have probed cosmic history back to a time and distance when the Universe was less than a tenth its present age. But the next generation of telescopes, with the latest theories as a benchmark, will be crossing the present high-redshift barrier to the first sources of light in the Universe.

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  • Volker Bromm & Naoki Yoshida & Lars Hernquist & Christopher F. McKee, 2009. "The formation of the first stars and galaxies," Nature, Nature, vol. 459(7243), pages 49-54, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:459:y:2009:i:7243:d:10.1038_nature07990
    DOI: 10.1038/nature07990
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