Exploring the cosmic dark ages with the next generation of space and ground-based facilities

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4835, Issue , 2002, Pages 122-135

  Stiavelli, Massimo ^a  

^a STScI   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology; Large ground based telescopes; NGST; Reionization

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; MICROWAVES; OBSERVATORIES; TELESCOPES;

COSMIC DARK AGES;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 0037740879     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.476690     Document Type: Conference Paper

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