THE INCIDENCE OF LOW-METALLICITY LYMAN-LIMIT SYSTEMS AT z ~ 3.5: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE COLD-FLOW HYPOTHESIS OF BARYONIC ACCRETION
Cold accretion is a primary growth mechanism of simulated galaxies, yet observational evidence of "cold flows" at redshifts where they should be most efficient (z = 2–4) is scarce. In simulations, cold streams manifest as Lyman-limit absorption systems (LLSs) with low heavy-element abundan...
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IOP Publishing
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99912 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4063-5126 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5653-0786 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3769-9559 |