The Dark Age of the Universe

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2003-07-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0307396v1

Science 300:1904-1909,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Review article, also available at http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~jordi/research.html

Scientific paper

10.1126/science.1085325

The Dark Age is the period between the time when the cosmic microwave background was emitted and the time when the evolution of structure in the universe led to the gravitational collapse of objects in which the first stars were formed. The period of reionization started with the ionizing light from the first stars, and it ended when all the atoms in the intergalactic medium had been reionized. The most distant sources of light known at present are galaxies and quasars at redshift z ~ 6, and their spectra indicate that the end of reionization was occurring just at that time. The Cold Dark Matter theory for structure formation predicts that the first sources formed much earlier.

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