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Following Cui et al. 2018 (hereafter Paper I) on the classification of large-scale environments (LSE) at z = 0, we push our analysis to higher redshifts and study the evolution of LSE and the baryon distributions in them. Our aim is to…

Observations at low redshifts thus far fail to account for all of the baryons expected in the Universe according to cosmological constraints. A large fraction of the baryons presumably resides in a thin and warm-hot medium between the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-01 Markus Haider , Dominik Steinhauser , Mark Vogelsberger , Shy Genel , Volker Springel , Paul Torrey , Lars Hernquist

In this article we first review the past decade of efforts in detecting the missing baryons in the Warm Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM) and summarize the current state of the art by updating the baryon census and physical state of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-01 F. Nicastro , Y. Krongold , S. Mathur , M. Elvis

Stars and gas in galaxies, hot intracluster medium, and intergalactic photo-ionized gas make up at most half of the baryons that are expected to be present in the universe. The majority of baryons are still missing and are expected to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Nicastro , Smita Mathur , Martin Elvis

The missing baryons in the universe are assumed to be hidden in the whole space as a warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM). Finding them is one of the important subjects in modern cosmology. In this paper, we point out that the very high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Wei Zhu , Rong Wang

The relationship between galaxies and the state/chemical enrichment of the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) expected to dominate the baryon budget at low-z provides sensitive constraints on structure formation and galaxy evolution…

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…

Cosmic filaments are thought to host a substantial fraction of the missing baryons at redshifts $z<2$. In this study, we constraint the baryonic content of these filaments using localized Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). Filaments are identified…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Jian-Feng Mo , Weishan Zhu , Qi-Rui Yang , Yi Zheng , Long-Long Feng

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…

Based on constraints from Big Bang nucleosynthesis and the cosmic microwave background, the baryon content of the high-redshift Universe can be precisely determined. However, at low redshift, about one-third of the baryons remain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Orsolya E. Kovacs , Akos Bogdan , Randall K. Smith , Ralph P. Kraft , William R. Forman

The baryon content around local galaxies is observed to be much less than is needed in Big Bang nucleosynthesis. Simulations indicate that a significant fraction of these "missing baryons" may be stored in a hot tenuous circum-galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-28 Jiang-Tao Li , Joel N. Bregman , Q. Daniel Wang , Robert A. Crain , Michael E. Anderson

At low redshift, only about one-tenth of the known baryons lie in galaxies or the hot gas seen in galaxy clusters and groups. Models posit that these "missing baryons" are in gaseous form in overdense filaments that connect the much denser…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Joel N. Bregman

In the local universe, a large fraction of the baryon content is believed to exist as diffuse gas in filaments. While this gas is directly observable in X-ray emission around clusters of galaxies, it is primarily studied through its UV…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-15 Thomas Connor , Fakhri S. Zahedy , Hsiao-Wen Chen , Thomas J. Cooper , John S. Mulchaey , Alexey Vikhlinin

Approximately 30 to 50 percent of the total baryons in the present universe is supposed to take a form of warm/hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) whose X-ray continuum emission is very weak. In order to carry out a direct and homogeneous…

We present the study of gas phases around cosmic-web filaments detected in the TNG300-1 hydro-dynamical simulation at redshift z=0. We separate the gas in five different phases according to temperature and density. We show that filaments…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Daniela Galárraga-Espinosa , Nabila Aghanim , Mathieu Langer , Hideki Tanimura

We propose a possible way to detect baryons at low redshifts from the analysis of X-ray absorption spectra of bright AGN pairs. A simple semi-analytical model to simulate the spectra is presented. We model the diffuse warm-hot intergalactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Viel , E. Branchini , R. Cen , S. Matarrese , P. Mazzotta , J. P. Ostriker

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

Standard big bang nucleosynthesis predicts the average baryon density of the Universe to be a few percent of the critical density. Only about one tenth of the predicted baryons have been seen. A plausible respository for the missing baryons…

Approximately half of the Universe's dark matter resides in collapsed halos; significantly less than half of the baryonic matter (protons and neutrons) remains confined to halos. A small fraction of baryons are in stars and the interstellar…

In this paper, we exploit a large suite of {\enzo} cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical simulations adopting uniform mesh resolution, to investigate the properties of cosmic filaments under different baryonic physics and magnetogenesis…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Claudio Gheller , Franco Vazza