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The Reionization of the Universe by the First Stars and Quasars
The first light from stars and quasars ended the ``dark ages'' of the
universe and led to the reionization of hydrogen by redshift 7. Current
observations are at the threshold of probing this epoch. The study of
high-redshift sources is likely to attract major attention in observational and
theoretical cosmology over the next decade.Comment: 60 pages, including 21 figures; to be published in the 2001 Volume of
Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics; A more extensive review, for
Physics Reports, is also available, with a different astro-ph number, or at
http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~barkana/review.htm