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We present the high-resolution X-ray spectra of Mkn 421 obtained in November 2003 with the RGS aboard the XMM-Newton satellite. This Target of Opportunity observation was triggered because the source was in a high state of activity in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Ravasio , G. Tagliaferri , A. M. T. Pollock , G. Ghisellini , F. Tavecchio

We investigate the physical properties and detectability of warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) gas with temperatures in the range $10^5<T<10^7$K around galaxy clusters using simulated galaxy clusters from The Three Hundred project. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Renjie Li , Weiguang Cui , Ang Liu , Huiyuan Wang , Atulit Srivastava , Romeel Dave , Frazer R. Pearce

The warm-hot intergalactic medium (warm-hot IGM, or WHIM) pervades the filaments of the Cosmic Web and harbours half of the Universe's baryons. The WHIM's thermodynamic properties are notoriously hard to measure. Here we estimate a galaxy…

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

Despite their vital importance to understand galaxy evolution and our own Galactic ecosystem, our knowledge of the physical properties of the hot phase of the Milky Way is still inadequate. However, sensitive SRG/eROSITA large area surveys…

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 problem of missing baryons in the local universe remains an open question. One propose alternative is that at low redshift missing baryons are in the form of the Warm Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM). In order to test this idea, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 E. Gatuzz , Javier A. García , E. Churazov , T. R. Kallman

Today, the majority of the cosmic baryons in the Universe are not observed directly, leading to an issue of "missing baryons" at low redshift. Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations have indicated that a significant portion of them will be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 A. Fresco , C. Péroux , A. Merloni , A. Hamanowicz , R. Szakacs

The Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM) arises from shock-heated gas collapsing in large-scale filaments and probably harbours a substantial fraction of the baryons in the local Universe. Absorption-line measurements in the ultraviolet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Richter , F. B. S. Paerels , J. S. Kaastra

We derive constraints on the thermal and ionization states of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at redshift $\approx$ 9.1 using new upper limits on the 21-cm power spectrum measured by the LOFAR radio-telescope and a prior on the ionized…

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

We use numerical simulations to predict the soft X-ray ([0.4-0.6] keV) and Sunyaev-Zeldovich signal (at 150 GHz) from the large scale structure in the Universe and then compute 2-point statistics to study the spatial distribution and time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Eugenio Ursino , Massimiliano Galeazzi , Kevin Huffenberger

An excess of soft X-ray emission (0.2-1 keV) above the contribution from the hot intra-cluster medium (ICM) has been detected in a number of galaxy clusters, including the Coma cluster. The physical origin of this emitting medium above hot…

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

The X-ray background is generated by various classes of objects and variety of emission mechanisms. Relative contribution of individual components depends on energy. The goal is to assess the integral emission of the major components of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. M. Soltan

The number of detected baryons in the Universe at z<0.5 is much smaller than predicted by standard big bang nucleosynthesis and by the detailed observation of the Lyman alpha forest at red-shift z=2. Hydrodynamical simulations indicate that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Ursino , M. Galeazzi

We observed several nearby face-on spiral galaxies with the ROSAT PSPC to study their 0.1-2.0 keV diffuse emission. After the exclusion of resolved discrete sources, there is unresolved X-ray emission in all the galaxies observed. Since…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Wei Cui , Wilton T. Sanders , Dan McCammon , Steven L. Snowden , Donna S. Womble

The fraction of ionized gas in the Warm Hot Intergalactic Medium induces temperature anisotropies on the Cosmic Microwave Background similar to those of clusters of galaxies. The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich anisotropies due to these low density,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ricardo Genova-Santos , Isabel Suarez-Velasquez , Fernando Atrio-Barandela , Jan Muecket

We present the results of spectroscopic observations of galaxies associated with the diffuse X-ray emitting structure discovered by Zappacosta et al. (2002). After measuring the redshifts of 161 galaxies, we confirm an overdensity of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Mannucci , G. Bonnoli , L. Zappacosta , R. Maiolino , M. Pedani

Recently, the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) collaboration has produced the experiment's first upper limits on the power spectrum of 21-cm fluctuations at z~8 and 10. Here, we use several independent theoretical models to infer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 The HERA Collaboration , Zara Abdurashidova , James E. Aguirre , Paul Alexander , Zaki Ali , Yanga Balfour , Rennan Barkana , Adam Beardsley , Gianni Bernardi , Tashalee Billings , Judd Bowman , Richard Bradley , Phillip Bull , Jacob Burba , Steven Carey , Christopher Carilli , Carina Cheng , David DeBoer , Matthew Dexter , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Joshua Dillon , John Ely , Aaron Ewall-Wice , Nicolas Fagnoni , Anastasia Fialkov , Randall Fritz , Steven Furlanetto , Kingsley Gale-Sides , Brian Glendenning , Deepthi Gorthi , Bradley Greig , Jasper Grobbelaar , Ziyaad Halday , Bryna Hazelton , Stefan Heimersheim , Jacqueline Hewitt , Jack Hickish , Daniel Jacobs , Austin Julius , Nicholas Kern , Joshua Kerrigan , Piyanat Kittiwisit , Saul Kohn , Matthew Kolopanis , Adam Lanman , Paul La Plante , Telalo Lekalake , David Lewis , Adrian Liu , Yin-Zhe Ma , David MacMahon , Lourence Malan , Cresshim Malgas , Matthys Maree , Zachary Martinot , Eunice Matsetela , Andrei Mesinger , Jordan Mirocha , Mathakane Molewa , Miguel Morales , Tshegofalang Mosiane , Julian Munoz , Steven Murray , Abraham Neben , Bojan Nikolic , Chuneeta Devi Nunhokee , Aaron Parsons , Nipanjana Patra , Samantha Pieterse , Jonathan Pober , Yuxiang Qin , N. Razavi-Ghods , Itamar Reis , Jon Ringuette , James Robnett , Kathryn Rosie , Mario Santos , Sudipta Sikder , Peter Sims , Craig Smith , Angelo Syce , Nithyanandan Thyagarajan , Peter Williams , Haoxuan Zheng