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A census of baryons in the Universe from localized fast radio bursts — mentioned by raattgift

Thu, 28 May 2020 16:39:46 GMT

> I feel like I should say this in every post about this kind of topic. Please don't. Just link to the actual paper which makes it clear. For example: Preprint version : https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13161 (n.b. "Comments: Published online in Nature 27 May, 2020) "census of baryons" (title) and "More than three quarters of the baryonic content of the Universe resides in a highly diffuse state that is difficult to observe, with only a small fraction directly observed in galaxies and galaxy clusters." (abstract's first sentence) gets the point across. I don't know where "dark matter" got to you in…

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A census of baryons in the Universe from localized fast radio bursts — mentioned by raattgift

Thu, 28 May 2020 15:55:45 GMT

FWIW, as with practically any astrophysics paper published in practically any journal, a preprint can be found by title or author search. In this case, https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13161 (and note "Comments: Published online in Nature 27 May, 2020"). Being published in Nature has some prestige still, even for astrophysics collabs.; even if -- for the sake of argument -- one accepts there are journals with better focus coupled with stronger editing of astrophysics papers in this area, that might not be relevant to all of the sources of funding for the collaboration.

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