FIRSTLIGHT

Unveiling first light from the infant Universe

 Coordinatore RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN 

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 Nazionalità Coordinatore Netherlands [NL]
 Totale costo 1˙500˙000 €
 EC contributo 1˙500˙000 €
 Programma FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call ERC-2010-StG_20091028
 Funding Scheme ERC-SG
 Anno di inizio 2010
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2010-10-01   -   2016-09-30

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN

 Organization address address: Broerstraat 5
city: GRONINGEN
postcode: 9712CP

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: H.D.
Cognome: Veldhuis
Email: send email
Telefono: +31 50 3634615
Fax: +31 50 3634500

NL (GRONINGEN) hostInstitution 1˙500˙000.00
2    RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN

 Organization address address: Broerstraat 5
city: GRONINGEN
postcode: 9712CP

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Luitje Vincent Ewoud
Cognome: Koopmans
Email: send email
Telefono: +31 50 3636519
Fax: +31 50 3636100

NL (GRONINGEN) hostInstitution 1˙500˙000.00

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position    first    universe    astronomy    reionization    lofar    team    detection    scientific    detect    ksp    science    epoch    time    radio    gas    erc    hydrogen    hi    neutral    astrophysics   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'I request ERC funding to set up a dedicated science team to detect, for the first time, the redshifted 21-cm radio line emission of neutral hydrogen (HI) with LOFAR coming from the first billion years of the age of the Universe (the Epoch of Reionization and the Dark Ages ).

The study of this pristine neutral hydrogen gas is a rapidly emerging field of astrophysics, both theoretically and observationally. A number of expert international groups in the US/Australia (MWA), China (21CMA), India (GMRT) and the Netherlands (LOFAR) are contending to be the first to detect this hydrogen gas. My proposed ERC project is high-risk and high-gain; however, all risks are controlled and the scientific rewards of detection of neutral hydrogen at these early times would have a tremendous impact and open a new frontier in astronomy. The study of neutral hydrogen, as in the nearby Universe, will revolutionize our knowledge of astrophysical processes in the first phases of the Universe, just after recombination.

The LOFAR Epoch-of-Reionization Key-Science Project (LOFAR EoR-KSP), of which I am a PI, aims to be the first, and if being the first fails, to provide the best detection of this neutral HI gas. Indeed, we are in a very good starting position to reach both goals. Our team has access to the most sensitive telescope available for these studies (LOFAR) and leads a Key Science Project with guaranteed observing time. Our KSP is rapidly ramping up to the observational phase of the project (2010), and now more than ever requires dedicated scientists that together in a small team maximize the scientific return of the project (i.e. detect and study HI). If successful, our research team would be in a position to start leading similar projects with the Square Kilometer Array (SKA). It is crucial that we gear up for the use of that future instrument and retain Europe s position at the forefront of astrophysics and radio astronomy.'

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