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In the Beginning: The First Sources of Light and the Reionization of the Universe

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The formation of the first stars and quasars marks the transformation of the universe from its smooth initial state to its clumpy current state. In popular cosmological models, the first sources of light began to form at redshift 30 and reionized most of the hydrogen in the universe by redshift 7. Current observations are at the threshold of probing the hydrogen reionization epoch. The study of high-redshift sources is likely to attract major attention in observational and theoretical cosmology over the next decade.

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JWST Constraints on Primordial Magnetic Fields

astro-ph.CO · 2026-04-27 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

JWST UV luminosity function calibration of reionization history bounds primordial magnetic fields to √<B²> < 0.27 nG (n_B=-2) and < 0.18 nG (n_B=2) at 95% CL by ruling out double reionization at z≈24.

Primordial Neutron Stars

astro-ph.CO · 2026-04-09 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Large initial baryon asymmetry allows Hubble patches to collapse into primordial neutron stars arrested by nuclear pressure, requiring later entropy dilution to match observed Y_B and BBN.

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  • JWST Constraints on Primordial Magnetic Fields astro-ph.CO · 2026-04-27 · unverdicted · none · ref 64

    JWST UV luminosity function calibration of reionization history bounds primordial magnetic fields to √<B²> < 0.27 nG (n_B=-2) and < 0.18 nG (n_B=2) at 95% CL by ruling out double reionization at z≈24.

  • Primordial Neutron Stars astro-ph.CO · 2026-04-09 · unverdicted · none · ref 12

    Large initial baryon asymmetry allows Hubble patches to collapse into primordial neutron stars arrested by nuclear pressure, requiring later entropy dilution to match observed Y_B and BBN.

  • Imprints of energy injection by compact dark stars in the 21-cm signal hep-ph · 2025-04-23 · unverdicted · none · ref 69 · internal anchor

    Compact dark stars from asymmetric dark matter may inject energy that significantly deviates the 21-cm brightness temperature evolution from standard cosmology, offering a new probe for particle dark matter.

  • Dark ages bounds on non-accreting massive compact halo objects astro-ph.CO · 2026-04-18 · unverdicted · none · ref 112

    Upper bounds on the dark matter fraction in MACHOs of 10^3 to 10^7 solar masses are derived from limits on distortions to the global 21-cm signal at z~17, z~89, and z>300.