10–19 Sept 2013
DESY Hamburg
Europe/Berlin timezone

The Near Infrared Background: puzzles and promises

19 Sept 2013, 09:00
1h
Building 61, Lecture Hall (DESY Hamburg)

Building 61, Lecture Hall

DESY Hamburg

Luruper Chaussee, 149 22761 Hamburg Germany

Speaker

Andrea Ferrara (SNS, Pisa, Italy)

Description

I will review the present status of the understanding of the Near Infrared Background light. In particular I will focus on recent experimental and theoretical progresses that hint at the possibility that a fraction of this cosmic light traces the most distant galaxies and, even more likely, the first black holes, thus opening an exciting pathway to study the early Universe.

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