@article{944ac0de16c34fb9ae5c42f0df640330,
title = "The reionization of the universe by the first stars and quasars",
abstract = "The formation of the first stars and quasars marks the transformation of the universe from its smooth initial state to its clumpy current state. In popular cosmological models, the first sources of light began to form at a redshift z = 30 and reionized most of the hydrogen in the universe by z = 7. Current observations are at the threshold of probing the hydrogen reionization epoch. The study of high-redshift sources is likely to attract major attention in observational and theoretical cosmology over the next decade.",
keywords = "Cosmology, First galaxies, Intergalactic medium",
author = "Abraham Loeb and Rennan Barkana",
note = "Funding Information: We thank Tom Abel, Steve Furlanetto, Nick Gnedin, Zoltan Haiman, Piero Madau, Jordi Miralda-Escud{\'e} and especially the editor Marc Kamionkowski for providing useful comments after a careful reading of the manuscript. A.L. thanks the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton for its kind hospitality when the writing of this review began. R.B. acknowledges support from Institute Funds; support by the Smithsonian Institution Visitor Program during a visit to the Harvard-Smithsonian CfA; and the hospitality of the Weizmann Institute, Israel, where part of this review was written. This work was supported in part by NASA grants NAG 5-7039, 5-7768, and NSF grants AST-9900877, AST-0071019 for A.L. ",
year = "2001",
doi = "10.1146/annurev.astro.39.1.19",
language = "אנגלית",
volume = "39",
pages = "19--66",
journal = "Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics",
issn = "0066-4146",
publisher = "Annual Reviews Inc.",
number = "1",
}