ID: astro-ph/0312517

Cosmic Matter Distribution: Cosmic Baryon Budget Revisited

December 19, 2003

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Masataka Fukugita
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The cosmic baryon budget is revisited using modern observations that have become available since our first publication. I also present an estimate for the heavy element abundance. An increased accuracy in the accounting of the baryon budget reveals `missing baryons', which amount to $\approx 35$% of the total. This would provide an interesting test for models of the cosmic structure formation.

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