Omega_baryon and the Geometry of Intermediate Redshift Lyman alpha Absorption Systems

Details Omega_baryon and the Geometry of Intermediate Redshift Lyman alpha Absorption Systems Omega_baryon and the Geometry of Intermediate Redshift Lyman alpha Absorption Systems

1995-04-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9504096v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 275 (1995) L76

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, compressed postscript file

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Estimates of Omega_baryon from primordial nucleosynthesis together with standard assumptions about the ionization state of low column density Lyman alpha forest clouds can be used to determine an upper limit for the cloud thickness along the line of sight. This upper limit provides significant constraints on the axis ratio of the absorbers and on the overall fraction of the baryonic matter contained in these objects if the recently measured large values for their transversal size are representative. The absorbers have to be considerably flattened structures and may possibly contain a substantial fraction of the baryonic matter at high redshift.

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