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astro-ph2004
Density Diagnostics of the Hot Plasma in AE Aquarii with XMM-Newton
Kei Itoh, Manabu Ishida, Hideyo Kunieda
High resolution spectroscopy of AE Aquarii with the XMM-Newton RGS has enabled us to measure the electron number density of the X-ray-emitting hot plasma to be ~1E11/cm**-3 by mean…
astro-ph2004
Future Japanese missions for the study of warm-hot intergalactic medium
T. Ohashi, M. Ishida, S. Sasaki +10
We present our proposal for a small X-ray mission DIOS (Diffuse Intergalactic Oxygen Surveyor) to perform survey observations of warm-hot intergalactic medium using OVII and OVIII…
astro-ph2004
Searching for cosmic missing baryons with DIOS -- Diffuse Intergalactic Oxygen Surveyor --
Yasushi Suto, Kohji Yoshikawa, Noriko Y. Yamasaki +9
Approximately 30 to 50 percent of the total baryons in the present universe is supposed to take a form of warm/hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) whose X-ray continuum emission is ver…