Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-02-06
Astrophys.J. 588 (2003) 704
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
17 pages, 5 figures. Will appear on ApJ May issue
Scientific paper
10.1086/374301
We explore the intergalactic medium (IGM) as a potential source of the unresolved soft X-ray background (XRB) and the feasibility to extract the IGM state and evolution from XRB observations. We build two analytical models, the continuum field model and the halo model, to calculate the IGM XRB mean flux, angular auto correlation and cross correlation with galaxies. Our results suggest that the IGM may contribute a significant fraction to the unresolved soft XRB flux and correlations. We calibrated non-Gaussian errors estimated against our $512^3$ moving mesh hydro simulation and estimate that the ROSAT all sky survey plus Sloan galaxy photometric redshift survey would allow a $\sim 10%$ accuracy in the IGM XRB-galaxy cross correlation power spectrum measurement for $800
Pen U.-L.
Zhang Pengjie
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