The Missing Baryon Explorer - Detecting X-ray Emission from the WHIM

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Dec 2003

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American Astronomical Society Meeting 203, #64.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 36, p.581

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The Missing Baryon Explorer (MBE) was proposed to NASA in the most recent round of small Explorer satellite proposals. Its highest priority science goal is tracing the soft x-ray emission from the missing baryonic matter in the local universe, presumed to be in the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM).
The science instrument of the Missing Baryon Explorer is an imaging x-ray spectrometer. Its detectors are microcalorimeters in a 6x6 array that provide 4-eV spectral resolution over the 40 - 2000 eV energy range. A conical-foil optic with a 1.4-m focal length provides large collecting area and 5-arcminute image quality to match the spatial resolution of the detectors.
Simulated observations of the x-ray sky will be presented that include emission from the WHIM, the galactic foreground, and the AGN background.

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