• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.31.1-31.1
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• 2008

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.18.4-18.4
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• 2008

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.64.2-64.2
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• 2010

From 2009, CEOU of Seoul National University has been utilizing the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, as one of its research facilities. UKIRT is a telescope with 3.8m primary mirror, and it is currently the largest telescope specialized for infrared observations. We will summarize our research activities using UKIRT, which include Infrared Medium-deep Survey (IMS) of proto-clusters and high redshift quasars, NIR imaging programs of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs), Gamma Ray sources, and SNUQSO quasars. Our research programs include international collaboration with the UK GRB team, the NASA/Swift team, Pomona College, and National Central University of Taiwan. We will also touch on our future plan of using UKIRT.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.72.1-72.1
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• 2009

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.76.2-76.2
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• 2012

We present the first simulations of cosmic reionization that include the first stars and their radiative feedback that limited their formation, in a volume large enough to capture the spatial variations that affected the process and its observability. We show hat these first stars made reionization begin much earlier than without, and was reatly extended, which boosts the intergalactic electron-scattering optical depth and the large-angle polarization fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) significantly. Although within current WMAP uncertainties, this will enable Planck see he signature of the first stars at high redshift, currently undetectable by other probes.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.232.1-232.1
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• 2012

With flourishing of new facilities, we are now set to expand the horizon of the human knowledge of the universe deep into the very beginning of the cosmic history of astronomical objects. In such an endeavor, extreme objects and cosmic events such as violent cosmic explosions, rapidly growing supermassive black holes, and proto-clusters of galaxies, are the objects to be investigated in order to unveil what was happening in the very early universe. We will discuss what we have learned and are expecting to discover from such extreme objects about the infant universe both currently and in future, highlighting some of our recent works.

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.57.3-58
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• 2009

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.40.2-40.2
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• 2019

Measuring distances at cosmological scales is one of the most important, yet most difficult to acquire astronomical quantities, allowing astronomers to determine the expansion rate of the universe. Typically, astronomers have sought to find "standard candles" that have a known intrinsic brightness in order to determine their distance. The most well known standard candles are Type 1a supernova and Cepheid variable stars making the so-called "distance ladder". Here we present a method for determining cosmological distances via light travel-time arguments, which can be extended from nearby sources to very high redshift sources.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.47.1-47.1
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• 2021

Cosmic Dawn III (CoDa III) is the last of the series of simulations of the reionization of the Local Group, the galaxy cluster including the Milky Way and the M31. The simulation is based on the constrained initial condition, N-body and hydrodynamic simulation of structure formation, modelling of galaxy formation, calculation of radiation transfer, and calibration against the observed high-redshift galaxy luminosity function. We present various physical properties we observed and important lessons that could stimulate future observations.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.47.2-47.2
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• 2020

The Experiment to Detect the Global EoR Signature (EDGES) has probed the status of the early Universe through the global 21cm observation. The claimed (brightness temperature) of ~ 500 mK absorption dip at z~17 against the continuum background cannot be explained in the standard LambdaCDM framework. In the meantime, the Planck 2018 Legacy Data, especially the E-mode polarization power spectrum, puts rather strong constraints on the high-redshift reionization process. We show how these two observational contraints can be accomodated in a series of reionization scenarios, with a special focus on the strongly self-regulated reionization by first stars.