| dc.creator |
Barcons, Xavier |
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| dc.date |
2008-04-24T01:34:14Z |
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| dc.date |
2008-04-24T01:34:14Z |
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| dc.date |
2007-11-30 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2017-01-31T01:03:24Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2017-01-31T01:03:24Z |
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| dc.identifier |
arXiv:0711.4888v1 [astro-ph] |
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| dc.identifier |
Astron. Nachr. / AN 999, No. 88, 789 – 792 (2006) |
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| dc.identifier |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asna.200710893 |
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| dc.identifier |
0004-6337 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/3714 |
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| dc.identifier |
10.1002/asna.200710893 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/3714 |
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| dc.description |
Proceedings of the "XMM-Newton: the next decade", to appear in Astronomische Nachrichten. |
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| dc.description |
At low redshift (z<2), almost half of the baryons in the Universe are not found in bound structures like galaxies and clusters and therefore most likely reside in a Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM), as predicted by simulations. Attempts to detect WHIM filaments at cosmological distances in absorption towards bright background sources have yielded controversial results that I review here. I argue that a secure detection of absorption features by the WHIM is at the limit of the XMM-Newton capabilities, but feasible. A proper characterisation of the whole WHIM belongs to the realm of future X-ray missions. |
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| dc.description |
Financial support for this work has been provided by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science under project ESP2006-13608-C02-01. |
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| dc.description |
Peer reviewed |
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76501 bytes |
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application/pdf |
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| dc.language |
eng |
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| dc.relation |
Preprint |
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| dc.rights |
openAccess |
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| dc.subject |
Galaxies: intergalactic medium |
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| dc.subject |
Quasars: absorption lines |
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| dc.subject |
Astrophysics |
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| dc.title |
Searching for the Missing Baryons in the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium |
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| dc.type |
Pre-print |
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