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SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS
卷 134, 期 1-4, 页码 295-310出版社
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DOI: 10.1007/s11214-008-9318-3
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large-scale structure of the universe; intergalactic medium; diffuse radiation; X-rays : diffuse background; quasars : absorption lines
In this paper we review the current predictions of numerical simulations for the origin and observability of the warm hot intergalactic medium (WHIM), the diffuse gas that contains up to 50 per cent of the baryons at z similar to 0. During structure formation, gravitational accretion shocks emerging from collapsing regions gradually heat the intergalactic medium (IGM) to temperatures in the range T similar to 10(5) - 10(7) K. The WHIM is predicted to radiate most of its energy in the ultraviolet (UV) and X-ray bands and to contribute a significant fraction of the soft X-ray background emission. While OVI and CIV absorption systems arising in the cooler fraction of the WHIM with T similar to 10(5) - 10(5.5) K are seen in FUSE and Hubble Space Telescope observations, models agree that current X-ray telescopes such as Chandra and XMM-Newton do not have enough sensitivity to detect the hotter WHIM. However, future missions such as Constellation-X and XEUS might be able to detect both emission lines and absorption systems from highly ionised atoms such as OVII, OVIII and Fe XVII.
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