Avi Loeb

Imaging an Event Horizon: submm-VLBI of a Super Massive Black Hole (2009)

Doeleman, Sheperd, Agol, Eric, Backer, Don, Baganoff, Fred, Bower, Geoffrey C., Broderick, Avery, ...

A long standing goal in astrophysics is to directly observe the immediate environment of a black hole with angular resolution comparable to the event horizon. Realizing this goal would open a new...

First Light Sources at the End of the Dark Ages: Direct Observations of Population III Stars, Proto-Galaxies, and Supernovae During the Reionization Epoch (2009)

Cooke, Jeff, Cooray, Asantha, Chary, Ranga-Ram, Bromm, Volker, Cen, Renyue, Ellis, Richard, ...

The cosmic dark ages are the mysterious epoch during which the pristine gas began to condense and ultimately form the first stars. Although these beginnings have long been a topic of theoretical...

The Dynamic X-ray Sky of the Local Universe (2009)

Soderberg, Alicia M., Grindlay, Jonathan E., Bloom, Joshua S., Gezari, Suvi, Piro, Anthony L., Belloni, Tomaso, ...

Over the next decade, we can expect time domain astronomy to flourish at optical and radio wavelengths. In parallel with these efforts, a dedicated transient "machine" operating at higher energies...

21 cm Intensity Mapping (2009)

Peterson, Jeffrey B., Aleksan, Roy, Ansari, Reza, Bandura, Kevin, Bond, Dick, Bunton, John, ...

Using the 21 cm line, observed all-sky and across the redshift range from 0 to 5, the large scale structure of the Universe can be mapped in three dimensions. This can be accomplished by studying...

A New Era in Extragalactic Background Light Measurements: The Cosmic History of Accretion, Nucleosynthesis and Reionization (2009)

Cooray, Asantha, Amblard, Alexandre, Beichman, Charles, Benford, Dominic, Bernstein, Rebecca, Bock, James, ...

(Brief Summary) What is the total radiative content of the Universe since the epoch of recombination? The extragalactic background light (EBL) spectrum captures the redshifted energy released from...

Signatures of the First Stars in the Universe (2007)

Avi Loeb, Zoltan Haiman

. We calculate the observable signatures of the first generation of stars at high redshifts (5 ! z ! 10 3 ). We determine the cosmic star--formation history, using an extension of the...

The Imprint of Cosmic Reionization on Galaxy Clustering (2007)

Wyithe, Stuart, Loeb, Avi

We consider the effect of reionization on the clustering properties of galaxy samples at intermediate redshifts (z~0.3-5.5). Current models for the reionization of intergalactic hydrogen predict that...

The Correlation Between Star Formation and 21cm Emission During the Reionization Epoch (2007)

Wyithe, Stuart, Loeb, Avi, Schmidt, Brian

Reionization is thought to be dominated by low mass galaxies, while direct observations of resolved galaxies probe only the most massive, rarest objects. The cross-correlation between fluctuations in...

The correlation between the distribution of galaxies and 21cm emission at high redshifts (2006)

Wyithe, Stuart, Loeb, Avi

Deep surveys have recently discovered galaxies at the tail end of the epoch of reionization. In the near future, these discoveries will be complemented by a new generation of low-frequency radio...

Probing the Spacetime Around Sgr A* with Radio Pulsars (2003)

Pfahl, Eric, Loeb, Avi

The supermassive black hole at the Galactic center harbors a bound cluster of massive stars that should leave neutron-star remnants. Extrapolating from the available data, we estimate that 100-1000...

Probing the first stars and their effects on the universe Elektronische Daten (2003)

Loeb, Avi, Astrophysics Conference

Talk Abstract von Kongress: Star and Structure Formation: From First Light to the Milky Way, Astrophysics Conference, August 18-22, 2003, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

GRBs vs. quasars: probing reionization vs. halo masses Elektronische Daten (2003)

Barkana, Rennan, Loeb, Avi, Astrophysics Conference

Talk Abstract von Kongress: Star and Structure Formation: From First Light to the Milky Way, Astrophysics Conference, August 18-22, 2003, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Empirical Constraints on the First Stars and Quasars (1998)

Haiman, Zoltan, Loeb, Avi

Empirical studies of the first generation of stars and quasars in the Universe will likely become feasible over the next decade. The Next Generation Space Telescope will provide direct imaging and...