Missing Baryons, from Clusters to Groups of Galaxies

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2007-12-10

arxiv.org/abs/0712.1441v1

Astrophys.J. 673 (2008) L5

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 3 figures, uses REVTeX4 + emulateapj.cls and apjfonts.sty. Accepted on ApJL

Scientific paper

10.1086/527435

From clusters to groups of galaxies, the powerful bremsstrahlung radiation L_X emitted in X rays by the intracluster plasma is observed to decline sharply with lowering virial temperatures T (i.e., at shallower depths of the gravitational wells) after a steep local L_X-T correlation; this implies increasing scarcity of diffuse baryons relative to dark matter, well under the cosmic fraction. We show how the widely debated issue concerning these `missing baryons' is solved in terms of the thermal and/or dynamical effects of the kinetic (at low redshifts z) and radiative (at high z) energy inputs from central active galactic nuclei, of which independent evidence is being observed. From these inputs we compute shape and z-evolution expected for L_X-T correlation which agree with the existing data, and provide a predictive pattern for future observations.

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