Cover -- Princeton Series in Astrophysics -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I. FUNDAMENTALS OF STRUCTURE FORMATION -- Chapter 1 Introduction and Cosmological Background -- 1.1 Preliminary Remarks -- 1.2 Standard Cosmological Model -- 1.3 Milestones in Cosmic Evolution -- 1.4 Most Matter Is Dark -- Chapter 2 Linear Growth of Cosmological Perturbations -- 2.1 Growth of Linear Perturbations -- 2.2 The Thermal History during the Dark Ages -- Chapter 3 Nonlinear Structure and Halo Formation -- 3.1 Spherical Collapse -- 3.2 Cosmological Jeans Mass -- 3.3 Halo Properties -- 3.4 Abundance of Dark Matter Halos -- 3.5 Halo Clustering in Linear Theory -- 3.6 The Nonlinear Power Spectra of Dark Matter and Galaxies -- 3.7 Numerical Simulations of Structure Formation -- Chapter 4 The Intergalactic Medium -- 4.1 The Cosmic Web -- 4.2 Lyman-α Absorption in the Intergalactic Medium -- 4.3 Theoretical Models of the Lyman-α Forest -- 4.4 The Metagalactic Ionizing Background -- 4.5 The Helium-Ionizing Background -- 4.6 Metal-Line Systems -- 4.7 The Lyman-α Forest at z > 5 -- PART II. THE FIRST STRUCTURES -- Chapter 5 The First Stars -- 5.1 From Virialized Halos to Protostars -- 5.2 From Protostars to Stars -- 5.3 The Second Generation of Stars: "Population III.2" -- 5.4 Properties of the First Stars -- 5.5 The End States of Population III Stars -- 5.6 Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Brightest Explosions -- Chapter 6 Stellar Feedback and Galaxy Formation -- 6.1 The Ultraviolet Background and H2 Photodissociation -- 6.2 The X-ray Background: Positive Feedback -- 6.3 Radiative Feedback: Mechanical Effects -- 6.4 Galactic Superwinds and Mechanical Feedback -- 6.5 Metal Enrichment and the Transition to Population II Star Formation -- 6.6 The First Galaxies -- Chapter 7 Supermassive Black Holes -- 7.1 Quasars and Black Holes: An Overview.

7.2 Basic Principles of Astrophysical Black Holes -- 7.3 Accretion of Gas onto Black Holes -- 7.4 The First Black Holes and Quasars -- 7.5 Black Holes and Galaxies -- 7.6 Black Hole Binaries -- 7.7 Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Mergers -- Chapter 8 Physics of Galaxy Evolution -- 8.1 High-Redshift Galaxies -- 8.2 Gas Accretion -- 8.3 Halo Mergers -- 8.4 Disk Formation -- 8.5 Star Formation in Galaxies -- 8.6 Black Hole Growth in Galaxies -- 8.7 Feedback and Galaxy Evolution -- 8.8 From Galaxy Model to Stellar Spectra -- 8.9 Signatures of the Interstellar Medium -- 8.10 Gravitational Lensing -- Chapter 9 The Reionization of Intergalactic Hydrogen -- 9.1 Propagation of Ionization Fronts -- 9.2 Global Ionization History -- 9.3 The Phases of Hydrogen Reionization -- 9.4 The Morphology of Reionization -- 9.5 Recombinations inside Ionized Regions -- 9.6 Simulations of Reionization -- 9.7 Statistical Properties of the Ionization Field -- 9.8 Reionization by Quasars and Other Exotic Sources -- 9.9 Feedback from Reionization: Photoheating -- PART III. OBSERVATIONS OF THE COSMIC DAWN -- Chapter 10 Surveys of High-Redshift Galaxies -- 10.1 Telescopes for Observing High-Redshift Galaxies -- 10.2 Methods for Identifying High-Redshift Galaxies -- 10.3 Luminosity and Mass Functions -- 10.4 The Statistics of Galaxy Surveys -- Chapter 11 The Lyman-α Line as a Probe of the Early Universe -- 11.1 Lyman-α Emission from Galaxies -- 11.2 The Gunn-Peterson Trough -- 11.3 IGM Scattering in the Blue Wing of the Lyman-α Line -- 11.4 The Red Damping Wing -- 11.5 The Lyman-α Forest as a Probe of the Reionization Topology -- 11.6 Lyman-α halos around Distant Sources -- Chapter 12 The 21-cm Line -- 12.1 Radiative Transfer of the 21-cm Line -- 12.2 The Spin Temperature -- 12.3 The Brightness Temperature of the Spin-Flip Background.

12.4 The Monopole of the Brightness Temperature -- 12.5 Statistical Fluctuations in the Spin-Flip Background -- 12.6 Spin-Flip Fluctuations during the Cosmic Dawn -- 12.7 Mapping the Spin-Flip Background -- Chapter 13 Other Probes of the First Galaxies -- 13.1 Secondary Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies from the Cosmic Dawn -- 13.2 Diffuse Backgrounds from the Cosmic Dawn -- 13.3 The Cross-Correlation of Different Probes -- 13.4 The Fossil Record of the Local Group -- Appendix A Useful Numbers -- Appendix B Cosmological Parameters -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index.