Lines of sight through randomly oriented flattened spheroids; quasar absorption cloud sizes
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2022-12-06 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract
Randomly oriented flattened spheroids have been used to describe a broad range of astrophysical phenomena. Here we use this geometric approach to derive equations representing lines of sight through quasar absorption clouds to constrain cloud sizes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2212.01802,
title = {Lines of sight through randomly oriented flattened spheroids; quasar absorption cloud sizes},
author = {John K. Webb},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.01802},
year = {2022}
}
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10 pages, 1 figure