The History of Cosmic Baryons: X-ray Emission vs. Star Formation Rate

Abstract

We relate the star formation from cold baryons in virialized structures to the X-ray properties of the associated diffuse, hot baryonic component. Our computations use the standard ``semi-analytic'' models to describe i) the evolution of dark matter halos through merging after the hierarchical clustering, ii) the star formation governed by radiative cooling and by supernova feedback, iii) the hydro- and thermodynamics of the hot gas, rendered with our Punctuated Equilibria model. So we relate the X-ray observables concerning the intra-cluster medium to the thermal energy of the gas pre-heated and expelled by supernovae following star formation, and then accreted during the subsequent merging events. We show that at fluxes fainter than $F_X\approx 10^{-15}$ erg/cm${}^2$ s (well within the reach of next generation X-ray observatories) the X-ray counts of extended extragalactic sources (as well as the faint end of the luminosity function, the contribution to the soft X-ray background, and the $L_X-T$ correlation at the group scales) increase considerably when the star formation rate is enhanced for z>1 as indicated by growing optical/infrared evidence. Specifically, the counts in the range 0.5-2 keV are increased by factors $\sim 4$ when the the feedback is decreased and star formation is enhanced as to yield a flat shape of the star formation rate for 2<z<4.

11 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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