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We present an X-ray absorption line spectroscopic study of the large-scale hot interstellar medium (HISM) in the Galaxy. We detect Ne IX K$_\alpha$ absorption lines in the {\sl Chandra} grating spectra of seven Galactic low-mass X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yangsen Yao , Q. Daniel Wang

Thermally-broadened Lya absorbers (BLAs) offer an alternate method to using highly-ionized metal absorbers (OVI, OVII, etc.) to probe the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM, T=10^5-10^7 K). Until now, WHIM surveys via BLAs have been no…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-03 Charles W. Danforth , John T. Stocke , Brian A. Keeney , Steven V. Penton , J. Michael Shull , Yangsen Yao , James C. Green

As the Universe evolves, it develops a web of filamentary structure of matter. This cosmic web is filled with gas, with the most diffuse gas lying in the intergalactic regions. At low redshift, the gas is predominantly warm-hot, and one of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Fabrizio Nicastro , Taotao Fang , Smita Mathur

A significant fraction of the local Universe's baryonic content remains undetected. Cosmological simulations indicate that most of the missing baryons reside in cosmic filaments in the form of warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM). The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-19 Konstantinos Migkas , Florian Pacaud , Toni Tuominen , Nabila Aghanim

The amount of detected baryons in the local Universe is at least a factor of two smaller than measured at high redshift. It is believed that a significant fraction of the baryons in the current Universe is "hiding" in a hot filamentary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 M. Galeazzi , A. Gupta , E. Ursino

We have analyzed all available archival XMM-Newton observations of X Comae, a bright X-ray quasar behind the Coma cluster, to study the properties of the warm-hot intergalactic medium in the vicinity of the nearest massive galaxy cluster.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 M. Bonamente , J. Ahoranta , E. Tilton , E. Tempel , A. Morandi

We observed the Seyfert I active galaxy/broad line radio galaxy 3C120 with the Chandra high energy transmission gratings and present an analysis of the soft X-ray spectrum. We identify the strongest absorption feature (detected at >99.9%…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. McKernan , T. Yaqoob , R. Mushotzky , I. M. George , T. J. Turner

The observed intergalactic OVI absorbers at z>0 have been regarded as a significant reservoir of the ``missing baryons''. However, to fully understand how these absorbers contribute to the baryon inventory, it is crucial to determine…

Cosmological simulations indicate that nearly half of the baryons in the nearby Universe are in the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) phase, and about a half them reside in cosmic filaments connecting galaxy clusters. Recent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-14 Yuanyuan Zhao , Haiguang Xu , Ang Liu , Xiaoyuan Zhang , Li Ji , Jiang Chang , Dan Hu , Norbert Werner , Zhongli Zhang , Wei Cui , Xiangping Wu

At present, 30-40 per cent of the baryons in the local Universe is still undetected. According to theoretical predictions, this gas should reside in filaments filling the large-scale structure (LSS) in the form of a Warm-Hot Intergalactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Roncarelli , N. Cappelluti , S. Borgani , E. Branchini , L. Moscardini

Recently the first detections of highly ionised gas associated with two Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM) filaments have been reported. The evidence is based on X-ray absorption lines due to O VII and other ions observed by Chandra…

We describe our surveys of low column density Lyman-alpha absorbers [N(HI) = 10^(12.5-16.0) cm^-2], which show that the warm photoionized IGM contains 30% of all baryons at z < 0.1. This fraction is consistent with cosmological simulations,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 John T. Stocke , J. Michael Shull , Steven V. Penton

Approximately 30-40% of all baryons in the present day universe reside in a warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM), with temperatures between 10^5<T<10^7 K. This is a generic prediction from six hydrodynamic simulations of currently favored…

Emission lines from metals offer one of the most promising ways to detect the elusive warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM; 10^5 K<T<10^7 K), which is thought to contain a substantial fraction of the baryons in the low-redshift Universe. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Serena Bertone , Joop Schaye , Claudio Dalla Vecchia , C. M. Booth , Tom Theuns , Robert P. C. Wiersma

Three observational constraints can be placed on a warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) using \rosat PSPC pointed and survey data, the emission strength, the energy spectrum, and the fluctuation spectrum. The upper limit to the emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. D. Kuntz , S. L. Snowden , R. F. Mushotzky

Intergalactic absorbers along lines of sight to distant quasars are a powerful diagnostic for the evolution and content of the intergalactic medium (IGM). In this study, we use the FUSE satellite to search 129 known lya absorption systems…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Charles W. Danforth , J. Michael Shull

At low redshifts, the observed baryonic density falls far short of the total number of baryons predicted. Cosmological simulations suggest that these baryons reside in filamentary gas structures, known as the warm-hot intergalactic medium…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 S. Walsh , S. McBreen , A. Martin-Carrillo , T. Dauser , N. Wijers , J. Wilms , J. Schaye , D. Barret

About 30-50% of the baryons in the local Universe are unaccounted for and are likely in a hot phase, 10^5.5-10^8 K. A hot halo (10^6.3 K) is detected around the Milky Way through the O VII and O VIII resonance absorption and emission lines…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 Joel N. Bregman , Guilherme Camargo Alves , Matthew J. Miller , Edmund Hodges-Kluck

With high resolution (0.46kpc/h), adaptive mesh-refinement Eulerian cosmological hydrodynamic simulations we compute properties of O VI and O VII absorbers from the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM). Our new simulations are in broad…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Renyue Cen

The properties of the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) in cosmic filaments are among the least quantified units in modern astrophysics. The Spectrum Roentgen Gamma/eROSITA All Sky Survey ((SRG/eRASS) provides a unique opportunity to…