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On the Possibility of Radioastronomical Investigation of the Birth of Galaxies

Year: 1975

Type: article

Abstract: During the prestellar epoch, protogalaxies were composed mainly of neutral hydrogen with mass approximately 100 times the mass of interstellar gas in galaxies today. Protogalaxies and protoclusters of galaxies therefore radiated strongly in the 21-cm line of neutral hydrogen. Due to cosmological redshift this line will be shifted to the metre wavelength band, so detection of redshifted 21-cm lines from protogalaxies may provide the possibility of finding the epoch of galaxy formation and the properties of protogalaxies.

Source: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/171.2.375

Authors: R. A. Sunyaev, Y. B. Zel'dovich

Institutions: Space Research Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union

Language: English

Topic: Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology

Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2035504643

FWCI: 5.528

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