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This document summarizes a study investigating the thermal regime of baryons behind shock waves arising from the virialization of dark matter halos during galaxy formation. The authors find that a fraction of shocked gas can cool to the temperature of the cosmic microwave background through radiation from HD molecules, and this fraction increases from ~0.1% to ~10% for halo masses from 5x10^7 to 10^8 solar masses at redshift 10. Hydrodynamic simulations are used to model the chemical and thermal processes b
- Author
- Lukoe
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- EN