Cosmos 18: Interesting Articles: The Articles

Don't Panic

  1. Modelling the expulsion of baryons from haloes from first principles: the role of feedback and of the cosmological constant: Veenema et al 2026: Oscar Veenema, Daniele Sorini, Sownak Bose arXiv, 2026, Mar13, 21 pages: Research: On cosmological constant Λ, dark energy (Λ) dark matter halos, baryonic matter, and missing baryon problem (AKA missing mass problem): "In cosmologies with Λ>&Lambda_0, dark energy emerges as the dominant factor in this process -- suggesting that, as our Universe transitions towards Λ-domination, dark energy eventually becomes the primary driver of baryon evacuation from massive haloes."
    1. keywords_cosmology.html.
    2. missing baryon problem in halos (see McGaugh et al. 2010). The missing baryon problem in halos is that the in dark matter halos the baryon fraction f=Ω_b/&Omega_(b-cosmic) < 1. In galaxies f=Ω_b/&Omega_(b-cosmic) < 0.03 and has dark matter halos get bigger f=Ω_b/&Omega_(b-cosmic) approaches 1 for the largest galaxy clusters. See also Wikipedia: Missing baryon problem, but this NOT the missing baryon problem in haloes.
    3. virial radius R_200: See also Wikipedia: Virial mass
    4. 003_cosmos/notes_3065_3098_2026jan24.pdf#page=7: The Cosmological Constant Force: p. 7--21.
    5. 003_cosmos/notes_3065_3098_2026jan24.pdf#page=15: turnaround radius where f_grav=f_λ: The turnaround radius is NOT the virial radius R_200 NOT the critical radius in general, but is the simplified one for Veenema et al 2026, p. 4, and NOT the closure radius of Veenema et al 2026, p. 4 (definition), 5 (derivation), 6 (formula).
    6. Cosmology file: cosmic_scale_factor.html