ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Young galaxies as tracers and agents of cosmic reionization
The identification of the first galaxies in the early Universe has been an expanding frontier of observational astrophysics. Reionization marks the last major phase transition of matter in the Universe and its completion had crucial impact on the formation of the smallest galaxies. Reionization is therefore the first landmark of the influence that feedback from star formation had on structure formation. While reionization roughly encapsulated the first Gyr of cosmic time, the precise timing, topology and the sources of ionizing photons are unknown. Did reionization proceed rapidly or gradually and was it driven by rare bright galaxies, or numerous faint ones? The main limitation to our…
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