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Concerning the Primordial Abundance of Helium in Quasi-Stellar Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Joseph Silk*
Affiliation:
Princeton University Observatory, N.J., U.S.A.

Abstract

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Primordial temperature fluctuations, which appear to be necessary in order to explain aspects of galaxy formation, can lead to observable effects in some objects. In QSS and other compact systems a correlation of absolute luminosity with primordial helium content is predicted.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Reidel 1972 

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