Soft X-ray excess of clusters: a thermal filament model, and the strong lensing of background galaxy groups

Details Soft X-ray excess of clusters: a thermal filament model, and the strong lensing of background galaxy groups Soft X-ray excess of clusters: a thermal filament model, and the strong lensing of background galaxy groups

2009-03-17

arxiv.org/abs/0903.3066v1

Astrophys.J.698:1301-1306,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

ApJ in press, 7 pages, emulateapj style

Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-637X/698/2/1301

The observational and theoretical status of the search for missing cosmological baryons is summarized, with a discussion of some indirect methods of detection. The thermal interpretation of the cluster soft X-ray and EUV excess phenomenon is examined in the context of emission filaments, which are the higher density part of the warm hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) residing at the outskirt of clusters. We derived an analytic radial profile of the soft excess surface brightness using a simple filament model, which provided us a means of observationally constraining the WHIM parameters, especially the total mass budget of warm gas associated with a cluster. We then pointed out a new scenario for soft excess emission, viz. a cluster that can strongly lens the soft X-rays from background WHIM knots. If, as seems quite likely, the missing baryons are mostly in the WHIM halos of galaxy groups, the lensing probability will be quite high ($\sim$ 10 %). This way of accounting for at least part of a cluster's soft excess may also explain the absence of O VII absorption at the redshift of the cluster.

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