X-Ray Detection of the Galaxy's Missing Baryons in the Circum-Galactic Medium of L${}^{\ast }$ Galaxies

Fabrizio Nicastro, Yair Krongold, Taotao Fang +10

The amount of baryons hosted in the disks of galaxies is lower than expected based on the mass of their dark-matter halos and the fraction of baryon-to-total matter in the universe…