Probing the first stars and black holes in the early Universe with the Dark Ages Radio Explorer (DARE)

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 433-450

  Burns, Jack O ^a,b   Lazio, J ^b,c   Bale, S ^b,d   Bowman, J ^b,e   Bradley, R ^b,f   Carilli, C ^b,g   Furlanetto, S ^b,h   Harker, G ^a,b   Loeb, A ^b,i   Pritchard, J ^b,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^g NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology: first stars, dark ages, reionization; Instrumentation: detectors; Radio lines: general

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; GRAVITATION; HYDROGEN; IONOSPHERE; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MOON; ORBITS; RADIO WAVES; STARS;

COSMOLOGY: FIRST STARS , DARK AGES , REIONIZATION; DIGITAL SPECTROMETER; INSTRUMENTATION: DETECTORS; INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUES; RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE; RADIO LINES: GENERAL; SPECTRAL CALIBRATION;

RADIO INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84855765918     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2011.10.014     Document Type: Article

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