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Massive Neutrinos and Galaxy Formation

Astrophysics 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

We report the most recent results from high-resolution numerical simulations of structure formation in two flat cold+hot dark matter models with neutrino mass densities \onu=0.2\onu=0.2 and 0.3. We find that structure forms too late in all CDM+HDM models with \onu>0.2\onu>0.2 to account for the amount of dense neutral gas in high-redshift damped Lyman-α\alpha systems. The \onu=0.2\onu=0.2 model at z0z\approx0 provides a better match to observations than the pure CDM model.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9412068,
  title  = {Massive Neutrinos and Galaxy Formation},
  author = {Chung-Pei Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9412068},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages including 3 figures, uuencoded compressed postscript. To appear in the Proceedings of the 5th Annual Astrophysics Conference in Maryland "Dark Matter"