Cold Molecular Gas as Baryonic Dark Matter
2004 ◽
Vol 220
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pp. 241-248
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We review the different cold dark gas models that have been proposed in the literature, as well as a new variant which addresses their principal stability problems by taking into account the property of molecular hydrogen to become solid or liquid below 33 K and at sufficiently high pressure. This new physical ingredient provides the possibility to stabilise cold gas globules by a core of condensed molecular hydrogen. Such loosely bound cold globules behave in a galaxy as a collisionless ensemble of matter, and form a reservoir of gas easily liberated through, e.g., UV excitation. the cold condensed cores survive the longest, of order a Gyr in the solar neighbourhood radiation field, and much longer in spiral outer HI disks.
2004 ◽
Vol 220
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pp. 251-252
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2002 ◽
Vol 110
(2)
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pp. 16-25
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1997 ◽
Vol 159
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pp. 333-336
1985 ◽
Vol 77-78
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pp. 201-212
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1988 ◽
Vol 234
(2)
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pp. 219-240
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2003 ◽
Vol 114
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pp. 59-66
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2016 ◽
Vol 11
(S321)
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pp. 214-216
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