X-ray Observations of the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium
Astrophysics
2016-01-27 v1
Abstract
We present Chandra observations that provide the most direct evidence to date for the pervasive, moderate density, shock-heated intergalactic medium predicted by leading cosmological scenarios. We also comment briefly on future observations with Constellation-X.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0210575,
title = {X-ray Observations of the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium},
author = {Smita Mathur and David H. Weinberg and Xuelei Chen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0210575},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
To be published in the proceedings of the conference "IGM/Galaxy Connection- The Distribution of Baryons at z=0". 6 pages