Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-11-29
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Astrophysical Journal Letters
Scientific paper
10.1086/319117
Three observational constraints can be placed on a warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) using \rosat PSPC pointed and survey data, the emission strength, the energy spectrum, and the fluctuation spectrum. The upper limit to the emission strength of the WHIM is 7.5 +/- 1.0 keV s^-1 cm^-2 sr^-1 keV^-1 in the 3/4 keV band, an unknown portion of which value may be due to our own Galactic halo. The spectral shape of the WHIM emission can be described as thermal emission with log T=6.42, although the true spectrum is more likely to come from a range of temperatures. The values of emission strength and spectral shape are in reasonable agreement with hydrodynamical cosmological models. The autocorrelation function in the 0.44 keV < E < 1.21 keV band range, w(theta), for the extragalactic soft X-ray background (SXRB) which includes both the WHIM and contributions due to point sources, is less than about 0.002 for 10 arcminutes < theta < 20 arcminutes in the 3/4 keV band. This value is lower than the Croft et al. (2000) cosmological model by a factor of about 5, but is still not inconsistent with cosmological models. It is also found that the normalization of the extragalactic power law component of the soft X-ray background spectrum must be 9.5 +/- 0.9 keV s^-1 cm^-2 sr^-1 keV^-1 to be consistent with the ROSAT All-Sky Survey.
Kuntz Kip D.
Mushotzky Richard F.
Snowden Steve L.
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