The removal of cusps from galaxy centres by stellar feedback in the early Universe

Nature

Volumn 442, Issue 7102, 2006, Pages 539-542

  Mashchenko, Sergey ^a   Couchman, H M P ^a   Wadsley, James ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RAYS; EXPLOSIONS; GASES;

COSMOLOGICAL MODEL; DISCREPANCY; HALOES; SMALL-SCALE PROBLEMS; SUPERNOVA;

GALAXIES;

CORE (PLANETARY); COSMOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ARTICLE; COSMOS; EVOLUTION; GAS TRANSPORT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PRECAMBRIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 33746713750     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04944     Document Type: Article

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