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Water Formation During the Epoch of First Metal Enrichment

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2015-05-22 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Abstract

We demonstrate that high abundances of water vapor could have existed in extremely low metallicity (10310^{-3} solar) partially shielded gas, during the epoch of first metal enrichment of the interstellar medium of galaxies at high redshifts.

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@article{arxiv.1503.03475,
  title  = {Water Formation During the Epoch of First Metal Enrichment},
  author = {Shmuel Bialy and Amiel Sternberg and Abraham Loeb},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.03475},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures. ApJ Letters Accepted