CfA OIR Division Lunch Talks


Thursday, June 23, 2005, Phillips Auditorium at 1:00 pm

>>> Note change of time and venue! <<<


The future of giant telescopes:
What can we learn from a photo album
of the infant universe?

Prof. Avi Loeb (CfA)

So far we have images of the universe when it was half a million years old and more than a billion years old, but none in between. The construction of large aperture infrared telescopes will provide us with a new photo album of the universe at intermediate ages. I will describe the science drivers for acquiring this expensive album. A snapshot survey of candidate HII regions selected in redshifted 21cm image cubes may prove to be the most efficient method for finding very high redshift quasars and galaxies.