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On the Jeans-mass in cosmology

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The matter of the Universe after recombination is considered as an expanding gas. the Jeans-mass obtained for this gas may essentially be larger than it is usually expected. This means that the discrepancy between the theoretical Jeans-mass and the observed masses of the galaxies may be mitigated.

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  1. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia

    A. Mészáros & Z. Molnár

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Mészáros, A., Molnár, Z. On the Jeans-mass in cosmology. Astrophys Space Sci 181, 323–325 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00639098

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