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Reionization and the cosmic dawn with the square kilometre array
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posted on 2023-06-08, 15:12 authored by Garrelt Mellema, Léon V E Koopmans, Filipe A Abdalla, Gianni Bernardi, Benedetta Ciardi, Soobash Daiboo, A G de Bruyn, Kanan K Datta, Heino Falcke, Andrea Ferrara, Ilian IlievIlian Iliev, Fabio Iocco, Vibor Jelic, Hannes Jensen, Ronniy Joseph, Panos Labroupoulos, Avery Meiksin, Andrei Mesinger, André R Offringa, V N Pandey, Jonathan R Pritchard, Mario G Santos, Dominik J Schwarz, Benoit Semelin, Harish Vedantham, Sarod Yatawatta, Saleem ZaroubiThe Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will have a low frequency component (SKA-low) which has as one of its main science goals the study of the redshifted 21cm line from the earliest phases of star and galaxy formation in the Universe. This 21cm signal provides a new and unique window both on the time of the formation of the ?rst stars and accreting black holes and the subsequent period of substantial ionization of the intergalactic medium. The signal will teach us fundamental new things about the earliest phases of structure formation, cosmology and even has the potential to lead to the discovery of new physical phenomena. Here we present a white paper with an overview of the science questions that SKA-low can address, how we plan to tackle these questions and what this implies for the basic design of the telescope
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Experimental AstronomyISSN
0922-6435Publisher
Springer-VerlagExternal DOI
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1-2Volume
36Page range
235-318Department affiliated with
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