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Why don't clumps of cirrus dust gravitationally collapse?

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-06-11 v1

Abstract

We consider the Herschel-Planck infrared observations of presumed condensations of interstellar material at a measured temperature of approximately 14 K (Juvela et al., 2012), the triple point temperature of hydrogen. The standard picture is challenged that the material is cirrus-like clouds of ceramic dust responsible for Halo extinction of cosmological sources (Finkbeiner, Davis, and Schlegel 1999). Why would such dust clouds not collapse gravitationally to a point on a gravitational free-fall time scale of 10810^8 years? Why do the particles not collide and stick together, as is fundamental to the theory of planet formation (Blum 2004; Blum and Wurm, 2008) in pre-solar accretion discs? Evidence from 3.3 μ\mum and UIB emissions as well as ERE (extended red emission) data point to the dominance of PAH-type macromolecules for cirrus dust, but such fractal dust will not spin in the manner of rigid grains (Draine & Lazarian, 1998). IRAS dust clouds examined by Herschel-Planck are easily understood as dark matter Proto-Globular-star-Cluster (PGC) clumps of primordial gas planets, as predicted by Gibson (1996) and observed by Schild (1996).

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@article{arxiv.1210.1103,
  title  = {Why don't clumps of cirrus dust gravitationally collapse?},
  author = {Rudolph E. Schild and Carl H. Gibson and Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen and N. Chandra Wickramasinghe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.1103},
  year   = {2015}
}

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8 pages, 2 figures, Conference FQMT'11