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Cosmological Constraints from High-Redshift Damped Lyman-Alpha Systems
Authors
Bertschinger E.
Chung-Pei Ma
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David H. Weinberg
Edmund Bertschinger
Lars Hernquist
Neal Katz
Quinn T. R.
Storrie-Lombardi L. J.
Storrie-Lombardi L. J.
White S. D. M.
Publication date
1 January 1997
Publisher
'University of Chicago Press'
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Abstract
Any viable cosmological model must produce enough structure at early epochs to explain the amount of gas associated with high-redshift damped Ly
α
\alpha
α
systems. We study the evolution of damped Ly
α
\alpha
α
systems at redshifts
z
≥
2
z\ge 2
z
≥
2
in cold dark matter (CDM) and cold+hot dark matter (CDM+HDM) models using both N-body and hydrodynamic simulations. Our approach incorporates the effects of gas dynamics, and we find that all earlier estimates which assumed that all the baryons in dark matter halos would contribute to damped Ly
α
\alpha
α
absorption have overestimated the column density distribution
f
(
N
)
f(N)
f
(
N
)
and the fraction of neutral dense gas
Ω
g
\Omega_g
Ω
g
​
in damped Ly
α
\alpha
α
systems. The differences are driven by ionization of hydrogen in the outskirts of galactic halos and by gaseous dissipation near the halo centers, and they tend to exacerbate the problem of late galaxy formation in CDM+HDM models. We only include systems up to the highest observed column density
N
∼
1
0
21.8
N\sim 10^{21.8}
N
∼
1
0
21.8
cm
−
2
^{-2}
−
2
in the estimation of
Ω
g
\Omega_g
Ω
g
​
for a fair comparison with data. If the observed
f
(
N
)
f(N)
f
(
N
)
and
Ω
g
\Omega_g
Ω
g
​
inferred from a small number of confirmed and candidate absorbers are robust, the amount of gas in damped Ly
α
\alpha
α
systems at high redshifts in the
Ω
ν
=
0.2
\Omega_\nu=0.2
Ω
ν
​
=
0.2
CDM+HDM model falls well below the observations.Comment: 11 pages including 2 figures. AAS LaTeX v4.0. Astrophysical Journal Letters, in pres
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