The Lyman-α glow of gas falling into the dark matter halo of a z = 3 galaxy

Nature

Volumn 430, Issue 7003, 2004, Pages 999-1001

  Weidlnger, Michael ^a,b   Møller, Palle ^a   Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall ^b,c  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c University of Copenhagen ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; GAS DYNAMIC LASERS; HYDROGEN; IONIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DARK MATTER; QUASARS;

GALAXIES;

HYDROGEN;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COSMOS; DENSITY; GAS ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 4344669222     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02793     Document Type: Article

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