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Hydrodynamic Simulations of Galaxy Formation. I. Dissipation and the Maximum Mass of Galaxies
We describe an accurate, one-dimensional, spherically symmetric, Lagrangian
hydrodynamics/gravity code, designed to study the effects of radiative cooling
and photo-ionization on the formation of protogalaxies. The code can treat an
arbitrary number of fluid shells (representing baryons) and collisionless
shells (representing cold dark matter). As a test of the code, we reproduce
analytic solutions for the pulsation behavior of a polytrope and for the
self-similar collapse of a spherically symmetric, cosmological perturbation. In
this paper, we concentrate on the effects of radiative cooling, examining the
ability of collapsing perturbations to cool within the age of the universe. In
contrast to some studies based on order-of- magnitude estimates, we find that
cooling arguments alone cannot explain the sharp upper cutoff observed in the
galaxy luminosity function.Comment: 33 pages, uuencoded compressed postscript with figures, Ap.J. (in
press), corrections to axes in Fig
Accounting for corporate behavior
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We can question whether the economics profession adequately rewards speaking to the public but that public communication will be most valuable if it reflects recent advances in economic theory and quantitative analysis.Economics - Study and teaching ; Economics
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