Probing the Universe with the Lyα forest - I. Hydrodynamics of the low-density intergalactic medium

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 296, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 44-55

  Gnedin, Nickolay Y ^a   Hui, Lam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology: theory; Hydrodynamics; Intergalactic medium; Methods: numerical; Quasars: absorption lines

Indexed keywords

GASES; HYDRODYNAMICS; INDUSTRIAL HEATING; IONIZATION OF GASES; NUMERICAL METHODS; VELOCITY;

A-PARTICLES; COSMOLOGY: THEORY; DENSITY FIELDS; EFFECTIVE POTENTIALS; GAS PRESSURES; HYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATION; INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM; LOWER DENSITY; METHOD: NUMERICAL; QUASARS ABSORPTION LINES;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 0002434251     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01249.x     Document Type: Article

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