How Are Intergalactic Filaments Made?

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Aug 1972

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1972ap%26ss..17..292c&link_type=abstract

Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 17, Issue 2, pp.292-324

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Computer simulations are performed which suggest that narrow intergalactic filaments can be produced by tidal forces. A fixed potential perturber passes a self-gravitating disk of stars in a nearly parabolic orbit. Due to their large velocity dispersion, the stars which are pulled out by the tide form only an amorphous cloud. The gas clouds are simulated by a disk of points of zero mass, zero velocity dispersion superimposed on the stellar disk. The ‘gas clouds’ form remarkably long, narrow filaments; but not so narrow as the narrowest filaments observed.

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