Cold streams in early massive hot haloes as the main mode of galaxy formation

Nature

Volumn 457, Issue 7228, 2009, Pages 451-454

  Dekel, A ^a   Birnboim, Y ^a,b   Engel, G ^a   Freundlich, J ^a,c   Goerdt, T ^a   Mumcuoglu, M ^a   Neistein, E ^a,d   Pichon, C ^e   Teyssier, R ^f,g   Zinger, E ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

^e INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

^f CEA SACLAY   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COSMOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLD; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FIELD EMISSION; GAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STREAM (RIVER);

EID: 58749116811     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07648     Document Type: Article

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