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PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 780, Issue -, Pages 1-64Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2018.10.002
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High-Redshift; Intergalactic medium; Galaxy formation; First stars; Reionization; Cosmology theory
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- ERC Starting Grant [DELPHI H2020/717001]
- European Commission
- University of Groningen CO-FUND Rosalind Franklin program
- ERC [INTERSTELLAR H2020/740120]
- Munich Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics (MIAPP), Italy of the DFG cluster of excellence Origin and Structure of the Universe
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Galaxy formation is at the heart of our understanding of cosmic evolution. Although there is a consensus that galaxies emerged from the expanding matter background by gravitational instability of primordial fluctuations, a number of additional physical processes must be understood and implemented in theoretical models before these can be reliably used to interpret observations. In parallel, the astonishing recent progresses made in detecting galaxies that formed only a few hundreds of million years after the Big Bang is pushing the quest for more sophisticated and detailed studies of early structures. In this review, we combine the information gleaned from different theoretical models/studies to build a coherent picture of the Universe in its early stages which includes the physics of galaxy formation along with the impact that early structures had on large-scale processes as cosmic reionization and metal enrichment of the intergalactic medium. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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