Chapter Nine. The Reionization of Intergalactic Hydrogen

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. PART I. Fundamentals of Structure Formation
5. Chapter One. Introduction and Cosmological Background 3
6. Chapter Two. Linear Growth of Cosmological Perturbations 25
7. Chapter Three. Nonlinear Structure and Halo Formation 41
8. Chapter Four. The Intergalactic Medium 92
9. PART II. The First Structures
10. Chapter Five. The First Stars 133
11. Chapter Six. Stellar Feedback and Galaxy Formation 174
12. Chapter Seven. Supermassive Black Holes 217
13. Chapter Eight. Physics of Galaxy Evolution 251
14. Chapter Nine. The Reionization of Intergalactic Hydrogen 283
15. PART III. Observations of the Cosmic Dawn
16. Chapter Ten. Surveys of High-Redshift Galaxies 337
17. Chapter Eleven. The Lyman-α Line as a Probe of the Early Universe 367
18. Chapter Twelve. The 21-cm Line 408
19. Chapter Thirteen. Other Probes of the First Galaxies 459
20. Appendix A. Useful Numbers 495
21. Appendix B. Cosmological Parameters 497
22. Notes 499
23. Further Reading 509
24. Index 513