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astro-ph.CO2011★ 36 cited
Detecting the warm-hot intergalactic medium through X-ray absorption lines
Yangsen Yao, J. Michael Shull, Q. Daniel Wang +1
The warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) at temperatures 1E5-1E7 K is believed to contain 30-50% of the baryons in the local universe. However, all current X-ray detections of the…
astro-ph.CO2011★ 519 cited
The Baryon Census in a Multiphase Intergalactic Medium: 30% of the Baryons May Still Be Missing
J. Michael Shull, Britton D. Smith, Charles W. Danforth
For low-redshift cosmology and galaxy formation rates, it is important to account for all the baryons synthesized in the Big Bang. Although galaxies and clusters contain 10% of the…