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The formation and gas content of high redshift galaxies and minihalos
Smadar Naoz, Rennan Barkana
We investigate the suppression of the baryon density fluctuations compared to the dark matter in the linear regime. Previous calculations predict that the suppression occurs up to…
The Physics and Early History of the Intergalactic Medium
Rennan Barkana, Abraham Loeb
The intergalactic medium - the cosmic gas that fills the great spaces between the galaxies - is affected by processes ranging from quantum fluctuations in the very early universe t…
The First Stars in the Universe and Cosmic Reionization
Rennan Barkana
The earliest generation of stars, far from being a mere novelty, transformed the universe from darkness to light. The first atoms to form after the Big Bang filled the universe wit…
The First Stars in The Universe
Smadar Naoz, Shay Noter, Rennan Barkana
Large telescopes have allowed astronomers to observe galaxies that formed as early as 850 million years after the Big Bang. We predict when the first star that astronomers can obse…