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First Light in the Universe: Saas-Fee Advanced Course 36. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy
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By Abraham Loeb, Daniel Schaerer (Editor), Andrea Ferrara, Angela Hempel (Editor), Richard S. Ellis, Denis Puy (Editor)
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The exploration of the first billion years of the history of the Universe represents one of the great challenges of contemporary astrophysics. This book contains the worked out lectures given at the 36th Saas-Fee Advanced Course "First Light in the Universe" by three eminent scientists in the field: Abraham Loeb, Andrea Ferrara, and Richard Ellis. The formation of the first stars and black holes, the initial mass function, feedback effects, early dust formation, the cosmic star formation hi...