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[Interview] Revealing the Secrets of Cosmic Dark Ages
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What are the cosmic dark ages and what do we know about them? Why are the so hard to study? How can the Dark Age Explorer help with it and why does it need to go on the far side of the Moon? Finding out in this interview.
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🟣 Guest: Dr Christiaan Brinkerink
https://www.ru.nl/en/externals/services/radboud-radio-lab
📜 The Dark Ages Explorer (DEX): a filled-aperture ultra-long wavelength radio interferometer on the lunar far side
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03418
00:00 Intro
02:31 Cosmic dark ages
14:23 21cm line
19:03 Current instruments
25:00 Dark Ages Explorer
41:20 Science objectives
50:47 Working with EHT
58:09 Current obsessions
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