Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Jan 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993egte.conf..121b&link_type=abstract
In NASA. Ames Research Center, The Evolution of Galaxies and Their Environment p 121-122 (SEE N93-26706 10-90)
Mathematics
Logic
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Absorption Spectra, Intergalactic Media, Lyman Spectra, Mathematical Models, Pressure Effects, Background Radiation, Hydrodynamics, Photoionization
Scientific paper
The Ly-alpha absorption line forest, seen in quasar spectra, is generally interpreted as being due to cosmologically distributed 'clouds' of primordial gas. Analyses of the observations reveal that the number distribution can be described by power laws: dN/dz is proportional to (1 + z)(sup gamma) and dN/dN(sub HI) is proportional to N(sub HI)(sup -beyda), where N(sub HI) is the HI column density. The typical values for power law indices range between 2 is approximately less than gamma is approximately less than 2.6 and 1.7 is approximately less than gamma is approximately less than 1.9. One model postulates that the Ly-alpha clouds are optically thin entities, photoionized by the background UV flux, J(sub nu) is proportional to (1 + z)(sup j), and confined by an adiabatically evolving intercloud medium (ICM): P(z) is proportional to (1 + z)(sup 5). Analytic studies of this model suggest that the ensuing Ly-alpha line statistics can account for the observations (in particular, the dN/dz and the dN/dN(sub HI) distributions) if the cloud mass spectrum is a power law dN/dN is proportional to M(sup -delta), delta is approximately 1.9, and j is approximately 4. One of the simplifying assumptions incorporated into these studies is the existence of a large mass range for the clouds at all epochs, the validity of which is questionable. The pressure-confined model is investigated using a 1-D spherically symmetric hydrodynamical code to simulate cloud evolution over the epoch 1.8 less than z less than 6. This enables us to relax many of the assumptions incorporated in the analytic studies.
Babul Arif
Williger Gerard. M.
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