Title :
The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA)
Author :
David R. DeBoer;James Aguirre;Judd Bowman;Richard Bradley;Chris Carilli;Steve Furlanetto;Jacqueline Hewitt;Daniel Jacobs;Adrian Liu;Miguel Morales;Aaron Parsons;Jonathan Pober;Max Tegmark;Dan Werthimer
Author_Institution :
University of California, Berkeley, USA
fDate :
7/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA), currently under construction, is a staged project that uses the unique properties of the 21-cm line from neutral hydrogen to probe the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) and the preceding Dark Ages. During these epochs, roughly 0.3 – 1 Gyr after the Big Bang, the first stars and black holes heat and reionize the Universe following cosmic recombination. Direct observation of the large scale structure of reionization and its evolution with time will have a profound impact on our understanding of the birth of the first galaxies and black holes, their influence on the intergalactic medium (IGM), and cosmology.
Conference_Titel :
Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium), 2015 USNC-URSI
DOI :
10.1109/USNC-URSI.2015.7303644
