The far-ultraviolet signature of the 'missing' baryons in the Local Group of galaxies

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6924, 2003, Pages 719-721

  Nicastro, Fabrizio ^a   Zezas, Andreas ^a   Elvis, Martin ^a   Mathur, Smita ^b   Fiore, Fabrizio ^c   Cecchi Pestellini, Cesare ^a   Burke, Douglas ^a   Drake, Jeremy ^a   Casella, Piergiorgio ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI ROMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; GALAXIES; SOLAR SYSTEM; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BARYONS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ASTRONOMY; COSMOCHEMISTRY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATOMIC PARTICLE; CLOUD; COSMOS; DENSITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPACE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VELOCITY;

EID: 0037434793     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01369     Document Type: Article

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