Astro2020 Science White Paper: A proposal to exploit galaxy-21cm synergies to shed light on the Epoch of Reionization
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/ Authors
Anne Hutter, Pratika Dayal, Sangeeta Malhotra, James Rhoads, Tirthankar Roy Choudhury, Benedetta Ciardi, Christopher J. Conselice, Asantha Cooray, Jean-Gabriel Cuby, Kanan K. Datta
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Xiaohui Fan, Steven Finkelstein, Christopher Hirata, Ilian Iliev, Rolf Jansen, Koki Kakiichi, Anton Koekemoer, Umberto Maio, Suman Majumdar, Garrelt Mellema, Rajesh Mondal, Casey Papovich, Jason Rhodes, Martin Sahlén, Anna Schauer, Keitaro Takahashi, Graziano Ucci, Rogier Windhorst, Erik Zackrisson
/ Abstract
This white paper highlights the crucial and urgent synergies required between WFIRST, Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam or other >25m-class telescopes galaxy observations and SKA 21cm measurements to constrain the nature of reionization (ionization history and topology) and its sources.