Near-Field Cosmology with the Lowest-Mass Galaxies
Abstract
We present an overview of near-field cosmology and make recommendations for future progress. The study of nearby low-mass galaxies on a star-by-star basis has implications that extend far beyond the local Universe and include the nature of dark matter, lives and deaths of the first stars, cosmic reionization, and galaxy formation across cosmic time.
- Publication:
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Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- May 2019
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1901.07571
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1901.07571
- Bibcode:
- 2019BAAS...51c...1W
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Submitted in response to the Astro2020 Call for Science White Papers. 11 pages, 3 figures. Comments welcome. Higher resolution and alternate versions of figures available https://github.com/dweisz/near-field_Astro2020