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We have identified a large-scale structure traced by galaxies at z=0.8, within the Lockman Hole, by means of multi-object spectroscopic observations. By using deep XMM images we have investigated the soft X-ray emission from the Warm-Hot…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Zappacosta , R. Maiolino , A. Finoguenov , F. Mannucci , R. Gilli , A. Ferrara

Modern analyses of structure formation predict a universe tangled in a 'cosmic web' of dark matter and diffuse baryons. These theories further predict that at low-z, a significant fraction of the baryons will be shock-heated to $T \sim…

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

The intergalactic medium (IGM) is the dominant reservoir of baryons at all cosmic epochs. We investigate the evolution of the IGM from z=2-0 in 48 Mpc/h, 110-million particle cosmological hydrodynamic simulations using three prescriptions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Romeel Davé , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer , Neal Katz , Juna A. Kollmeier , David H. Weinberg

The "missing baryons", in the form of warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM), are expected to reside in cosmic filamentary structures that can be traced by signposts such as large-scale galaxy superstructures. The clear detection of an X-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Bin Ren , Taotao Fang , David A. Buote

Numerical simulations of the intergalactic medium have shown that at the present epoch a significant fraction (40-50%) of the baryonic component should be found in the (T~10^6K) Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM) - with several recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Renyue Cen , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Numerical simulations predict a considerable fraction of the missing baryons at redshift z ~ 0 resting in the so called warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM). The filaments and sheets of the WHIM have high temperatures 10^5 - 10^7 K) and a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. S. Klar , J. P. Mücket

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…

The Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM) is a new facility dedicated to the study of faint optical emission lines from diffuse interstellar gas. During its first 18 months of operation, WHAM carried out a survey of the interstellar H-alpha…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. Reynolds , L. M. Haffner , S. L. Tufte

In the last few years the realization has emerged that the universal baryons are almost equally distributed by mass in three components: (1) galactic concentrations, (2) a warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) and (3) a diffuse intergalactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Attila Popping , Robert Braun

We report on observations of several optical emission lines toward a variety of newly revealed faint, large-scale H-alpha-emitting structures in the warm ionized medium (WIM) of the Galaxy. The lines include [N II] 6583, [N II] 5755, [S II]…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. J. Madsen

Context. A significant fraction of the predicted baryons remains undetected in the local universe. We adopted the common assumption that a large fraction of the missing baryons corresponds to the hot (log T(K) = 5.5-7) phase of the Warm Hot…

Context. The physical state of most of the baryonic matter in the local universe is unknown, which is commonly referred to as the ``missing baryon problem". It is theorized that at least half of these missing baryons are in a warm-hot,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Cagri Erciyes , Kaustuv Basu , Suk Kim , Soo-Chang Rey

In this Letter we demonstrate that the two claims of $z\simeq 0.03$ OVII K$\alpha$ absorption lines from Warm Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM) along the lines of sight to the blazars H~2356-309 (Buote et al., 2009; Fang et al., 2010) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-24 F. Nicastro , F. Senatore , A. Gupta , S. Mathur , Y. Krongold , M. Elvis , L. Piro

While hot ICM in galaxy clusters makes these objects powerful X-ray sources, the cluster's outskirts and overdense gaseous filaments might give rise to much fainter sub-keV emission. Cosmological simulations show a prominent "focusing"…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-31 E. Churazov , I. I. Khabibullin , K. Dolag , N. Lyskova , R. A. Sunyaev

We perform a series of cosmological simulations using Enzo, an Eulerian adaptive-mesh refinement, N-body + hydrodynamical code, applied to study the warm/hot intergalactic medium. The WHIM may be an important component of the baryons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Britton D. Smith , Eric J. Hallman , J. Michael Shull , Brian W. O'Shea

We present a detailed analysis of the galaxy and group distributions around three reported X-ray absorption line systems in the spectrum of the quasar H2356-309. Previous studies associated these absorbers with known large-scale galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-14 Rik J. Williams , John S. Mulchaey , Juna A. Kollmeier

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…

Several popular cosmological models predict that most of the baryonic mass in the local universe is located in filamentary and sheet-like structures associated with groups and clusters of galaxies. This gas is expected to be gravitationally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Zappacosta , R. Maiolino , F. Mannucci , R. Gilli , A. Finoguenov , A. Ferrara

It has been known for decades that the observed number of baryons in the local universe falls about 30-40% short of the total number of baryons predicted by Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis, as inferred from density fluctuations of the Cosmic…