Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-11-08
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
12 pages, 6 figures, to be published in IJMPE
Scientific paper
The evolution of the baryon distribution in different phases, derived from cosmological simulations, are here reported. These computations indicate that presently most of baryons are in a warm-hot intergalactic (WHIM) medium (about 43%) while at z = 2.5 most of baryons constitute the diffuse medium (about 74%). Stars and the cold gas in galaxies represent only 14% of the baryons at z = 0. For z < 4 about a half of the metals are locked into stars while the fraction present in the WHIM and in the diffuse medium increases with a decreasing redshift. In the redshift range 0 < z < 2.5, the amount of metals in the WHIM increases from 4% to 22% while in the diffuse medium it increases from 0.6% to 4%. This enrichment process is due essentially to a turbulent diffusion mechanism associated to mass motions driven by supernova explosions. At z = 0, simulated blue (late type) galaxies show a correlation of the oxygen abundance present in the cold gas with the luminosity of the considered galaxy that agrees quite well with data derived from HII regions.
de Freitas Pacheco José Antonio
Durier Fabrice
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