Evidence for the Missing Baryons in the Angular Correlation of the Diffuse X-ray Background

Details Evidence for the Missing Baryons in the Angular Correlation of the Diffuse X-ray Background Evidence for the Missing Baryons in the Angular Correlation of the Diffuse X-ray Background

2008-12-11

arxiv.org/abs/0812.2219v1

ApJ 695, 1127-1131 (2009)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication on ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-637X/695/2/1127

The amount of detected baryons in the local Universe is at least a factor of two smaller than measured at high redshift. It is believed that a significant fraction of the baryons in the current Universe is "hiding" in a hot filamentary structure filling the intergalactic space, the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium ($WHIM$). We found evidence of the missing baryons in the $WHIM$ by detecting their signature on the angular correlation of diffuse X-ray emission with the XMM-Newton satellite. Our result indicates that $(12\pm 5)$% of the total diffuse X-ray emission in the energy range 0.4-0.6 keV is due to intergalactic filaments. The statistical significance of our detection is several sigmas ($\chi ^2>136$ N=19). The error bar in the X-ray flux is dominated, instead, by cosmic variation and model uncertainties.

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