Prospects for Detecting the First Black Holes with the Next Generation of Telescopes
Abstract
This chapter describes the prospects for detecting the first black holes in our Universe, with a specific focus on instruments/telescopes that will come online within the next decade, including e.g. the SKA, WFIRST, EUCLID, JWST, and large ground-based facilities such as E-ELTs, GMT and TMT. This chapter focusses on: (1) the indirect detectability of the first generations of stellar mass black holes through their imprint on various Cosmic Background Radiation fields including the 21-cm and X-ray backgrounds; (2) direct detectability of line and continuum emission by more massive black holes (MBH ~ 1e4-1e6 Msun) that formed via channels other than `ordinary' stellar evolution.
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