The assembly of the first massive black holes

K Inayoshi, E Visbal, Z Haiman - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The existence of∼ 109M⊙ supermassive black holes (SMBHs) within the first billion years
of the Universe has stimulated numerous ideas for the prompt formation and rapid growth of …

Cosmology at low frequencies: The 21 cm transition and the high-redshift Universe

SR Furlanetto, SP Oh, FH Briggs - Physics reports, 2006 - Elsevier
Observations of the high-redshift Universe with the 21cm hyperfine line of neutral hydrogen
promise to open an entirely new window onto the early phases of cosmic structure formation …

Planck 2018 results-VI. Cosmological parameters

N Aghanim, Y Akrami, M Ashdown, J Aumont… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
We present cosmological parameter results from the final full-mission Planck measurements
of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies, combining information from the …

Planck 2018 results. VI. Cosmological parameters

P Collaboration, N Aghanim, Y Akrami, M Ashdown… - 2020 - repository.cam.ac.uk
We present cosmological parameter results from the final full-mission Planck measurements
of the CMB anisotropies. We find good consistency with the standard spatially-flat 6 …

Three-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: implications for cosmology

DN Spergel, R Bean, O Doré, MR Nolta… - The astrophysical …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
A simple cosmological model with only six parameters (matter density, Ω mh 2, baryon
density, Ω bh 2, Hubble constant, H 0, amplitude of fluctuations, σ 8, optical depth, τ, and a …

Five-year wilkinson microwave anisotropy probe* observations: likelihoods and parameters from the Wmap data

J Dunkley, E Komatsu, MR Nolta… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper focuses on cosmological constraints derived from analysis of WMAP data alone.
A simple ΛCDM cosmological model fits the five-year WMAP temperature and polarization …

The first stars

V Bromm, RB Larson - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract We review recent theoretical results on the formation of the first stars in the
universe, and emphasize related open questions. In particular, we discuss the initial …

Formation of the first stars

V Bromm - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Understanding the formation of the first stars is one of the frontier topics in modern
astrophysics and cosmology. Their emergence signalled the end of the cosmic dark ages, a …

Particle decays during the cosmic dark ages

X Chen, M Kamionkowski - Physical Review D, 2004 - APS
We consider particle decays during the cosmic dark ages with two aims:(1) to explain the
high optical depth reported by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), and (2) …

First-year wilkinson microwave anisotropy probe (wmap)* observations: Temperature-polarization correlation

A Kogut, DN Spergel, C Barnes… - The Astrophysical …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) has mapped the full sky in
Stokes I, Q, and U parameters at frequencies of 23, 33, 41, 61, and 94 GHz. We detect …