Molecules at High Redshift: The Evolution of the Cool Phase of Protogalactic Disks
Molecules at High Redshift: The Evolution of the Cool Phase of Protogalactic Disks
We study the formation of molecular hydrogen, after the epoch of reionization, in the context of canonical galaxy formation theory due to hierarchical clustering. There is an initial epoch of H2 production in the gas phase through the H- route that ends at a redshift of order unity. We assume …