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Cosmic Strings and Galaxy Formation

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Recently it has repeatetly been claimed [1] that there is now a successful “standard model” for galaxy formation. This model involves: (i) cold dark matter WithΩ0 = 1, (ii) primordial Gaussian fluctuations With a Harrison-Zel’dovich spectrum, and (iii) biasing, which presumes that galaxies only form in the rare peaks of density perturbations.

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Straumann, N. (1988). Cosmic Strings and Galaxy Formation. In: Börner, G. (eds) High Energy Astrophysics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73560-8_19

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