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Astronomy 6000 – The High Redshift Universe

Nils HalvesonJack Burns

Geraint Harker

Class website: http://lunar.colorado.edu/~jaburns/astr6000/

The First Billion Years

z=1100

z~20-30

z~6

The Evolution of the IGM

HST WMAP

Courtesy of J. PritchardRedshift (z)

The History of Hydrogen

adapted from A. Loeb, 2006, Scientific American, 295, 46

The History of Hydrogen

The History of Hydrogen

The History of Hydrogen

The History of Hydrogen

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