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Aims. We map the temperature structure of the intra-cluster medium (ICM) within a nearly complete X-ray flux limited sample of galaxy clusters in the redshift range z=[0.045,0.096]. Our sample contains seven bright clusters of galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Bourdin , P. Mazzotta

We present new measurements of the thermal state of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at $z\sim2.4$ derived from absorption line profiles in the Ly$\alpha$ forest. We use a large set of high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations to calibrate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 James S. Bolton , George D. Becker , Martin G. Haehnelt , Matteo Viel

We study the thermal structure of the neutral atomic (H {\small I}) interstellar medium across a wide range of metallicities, from supersolar down to vanishing metallicity, and for varying UV intensities and cosmic-ray ionization rates. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-04 Shmuel Bialy , Amiel Sternberg

The thermal evolution of the intergalactic medium (IGM) can serve as a sensitive probe of cosmological heat sources and sinks. We employ it to limit interactions between dark matter and baryons. After reionization the IGM temperature is set…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Julian B. Muñoz , Abraham Loeb

Intergalactic medium temperature is a powerful probe of the epoch of reionisation, as information is retained long after reionisation itself. However, mean temperatures are highly degenerate with the timing of reionisation, with the amount…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 James E. Davies , Simon J. Mutch , Yuxiang Qin , Andrei Mesinger , Gregory B. Poole , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

The absorption by neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM) produces the Ly$\alpha$ forest in the spectra of quasars. The Ly$\alpha$ forest absorbers have a broad distribution of neutral hydrogen column density $N_{\rm HI}$ and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 Li Yang , Zheng Zheng , T. -S. Kim

We present a new investigation of the thermal history of the intergalactic medium (IGM) during and after reionization using the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest flux power spectrum at $4.0\lesssim z\lesssim5.2$. Using a sample of 15 high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Elisa Boera , George D. Becker , James S. Bolton , Fahad Nasir

Unveiling the thermal history of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at $4 \leq z \leq 5$ holds the potential to reveal early onset HeII reionization or lingering thermal fluctuations from HI reionization. We set out to reconstruct the IGM gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-10 Fahad Nasir , Prakash Gaikwad , Frederick B. Davies , James S. Bolton , Ewald Puchwein , Sarah E. I. Bosman

The physical characteristics of the Lyman-alpha forest cloud systems are combined with observations on the baryonic mass density of the Universe and constraints from primordial nucleosynthesis to set boundary conditions on the Intergalactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Fisher

Aims. The main objective of this article is to provide a simple physical framework with permits a quantitative comparison of measurements of the temperature fluctuations in the ionized interstellar medium with possible mechanisms which can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Giammanco , J. E. Beckman

The thermal state of the post-reionization IGM is sensitive to the timing of reionization and the nature of the ionizing sources. We have modelled here the thermal state of the IGM in cosmological radiative transfer simulations of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-17 Laura C. Keating , Ewald Puchwein , Martin G. Haehnelt

We use numerical hydrodynamical simulations of early structure formation in a LCDM universe to investigate the spin temperature and 21cm brightness of the diffuse intergalactic medium (IGM) prior to the epoch of cosmic reionization, at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Kuhlen , Piero Madau , Ryan Montgomery

The preheating of intergalactic medium(IGM) by structure collapsing and ultraviolet background(UVB) are investigated in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. When gravitational collapsing is the sole heating mechanism, we find that (1)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-27 Weishan Zhu , Long-Long Feng

Using high redshift radio sources as background, the 21cm forest observations probe the neutral hydrogen absorption signatures of early structures along the lines of sight. Directly sensitive to the spin temperature, it complements the 21cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Yidong Xu , Xuelei Chen , Zuhui Fan , Hy Trac , Renyue Cen

A study of the IGM metal enrichment using a series of SPH simulations is presented, employing metal cooling and turbulent diffusion of metals and thermal energy. An adiabatic feedback mechanism was adopted where gas cooling was prevented to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Sijing Shen , James Wadsley , Gregory Stinson

Filaments, forming in the context of cosmological structure formation, are not only supposed to host the majority of the baryons at low redshifts in the form of the WHIM, but also to supply forming galaxies at higher redshifts with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. S. Klar , J. P. Mücket

The origin of warm ions in the circum-galactic medium (CGM) surrounding massive galaxies remains a mystery. In this paper, we argue that a significant fraction of the observed warm-ion columns may arise in the intergalactic medium (IGM)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-08 Itai Bromberg , Kartick C. Sarkar , Orly Gnat , Yuval Brinboim

Radiative processes play a pivotal role in shaping the thermal and chemical states of gas across diverse astrophysical environments, from the interstellar medium (ISM) to the intergalactic medium. We present a hybrid cooling model for…

At $z \lesssim 1$, shock heating caused by large-scale velocity flows and possibly violent feedback from galaxy formation, converts a significant fraction of the cool gas ($T\sim 10^4$ K) in the intergalactic medium (IGM) into warm-hot…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-29 Teng Hu , Vikram Khaire , Joseph F. Hennawi , Jose Onorbe , Michael Walther , Zarija Lukic , Frederick Davies

The temperature profile (TP) of the intracluster medium (ICM) is of primeval importance for deriving the dynamical parameters of the largest equilibrium systems known in the universe, in particular their total mass profile. Analytical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Dos Santos