Interstellar Physics at the Epoch of Galaxy Formation

星系形成时期的星际物理学。有了大型望远镜和大型空间天文台，我们终于可以回到过去，看看星系是如何在我们宇宙的头几十亿年里组装起来的。我们需要确定气体是如何形成恒星的，大质量黑洞是如何吞噬它们的新生星系并与之相互作用的，重元素是如何产生的，以及尘埃遮蔽或再辐射如何影响观测。这一提议汇集了一个世界级的团队，以星际等离子体的物理模型为基础，开发和应用新的独特的泛光谱工具，并设想用于确定坍塌星系的基本参数。

Interstellar Physics at the Epoch of Galaxy Formation. With large telescopes and major space observatories, we can finally reach back in time and see how galaxies were assembled in the first few billion years of our Universe. We need to determine how gas forms into stars, how massive black holes feed on and interact with their nascent galaxies, how heavy elements are produced, and how dust obscuration or re-radiation affects observations. This proposal brings a world-class team together to develop and apply new and unique pan-spectral tools based on physical models of the interstellar plasma and conceived to determine fundamental parameters of collapsing galaxies.