3 papers
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…
astro-ph2002
The UV (GALEX) and FIR (ASTRO-F) All Sky Surveys: the measure of the dust extinction in the local universe
V. Buat, T. T. Takeuchi, A. Boselli +9
Before the end of 2002 will be launched the GALEX satellite (a NASA/SMEX project) which will observe all the sky in Ultraviolet (UV) through filters at 1500 and 2300 A down to m(AB…