Properties of the diffuse X-ray background in a high-resolution hydrodynamical simulation

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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10 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for pubblication in MNRAS. Added 2 new sections and other minor changes due to referee report

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10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10102.x

We study the properties of the diffuse X-ray background by using the results of a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation of the concordance LambdaCDM model. The simulation follows gravitational and gas dynamics and includes a treatment of physical processes like radiative cooling, star formation and supernova feedback. From the simulation outputs, we produce a set of two-dimensional maps of the intergalactic medium X-ray emission integrated over redshift. We find that the signal in the soft (0.5-2 keV) band is lognormally distributed with a mean intensity of about 4 10^-12 erg s^-1 cm^-2 deg^-2; approximately 40 per cent of the emission originates from warm-hot gas (defined as baryons with 10^5

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