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Cosmological Conductive/Cooling Fronts as Lyman Alpha Forest Clouds

Andrea Ferrara, Yuri Shchekinov

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9605034

Abstract

We propose a simple model for the origin and evolution of clouds based on cosmological conductive/cooling fronts. In this model the arises in the interfaces between the IGM and cold clouds that could be tentatively identified with protogalaxies. Most of the properties of the absorbers are reproduced with a very restricted number of assumptions. Among these are the correct range of HI column density, cloud sizes and redshift and HI column density distributions for the absorbers. Several predictions and implications of the model are briefly discussed.

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