Scintillation as a Probe of the Intergalactic Medium

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2001-04-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0104189v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 325 (2001) 1643

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 3 figures, accepted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04573.x

Most of the baryons in the low-redshift universe reside in a warm/hot component which is difficult to detect with standard absorption/emission line techniques. We propose to use quasar refractive scintillation as an useful, complementary probe of such ionized, intergalactic gas. In particular, an application to the case of the intracluster medium is presented. We show that clusters located at z approx 0.02 should produce a source rms intensity fluctuation at 50-100 GHz of several tens of percent and on time scales ranging from days to months, depending on the projected location of the source on the foreground cluster. However, in order to produce such a signal, the source needs to be very compact. This effect, if observed, can be used as an independent test of the baryonic mass fraction in clusters.

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