Simulation of Soft X-ray Emission Lines from the Missing Baryons

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2003-11-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0311141v2

Astrophys.J. 623 (2005) 612-626

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

17 pages, 17 figures. Revised version, accepted by ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/428656

We study the soft X-ray emission (0.1 - 1 keV) from the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM) in a hydrodynamic simulation of a Cold Dark Matter universe. Our main goal is to investigate how such emission can be explored with a combination of imaging and spectroscopy, and to motivate future X-ray missions. We first present high resolution images of the X-ray emission in several energy bands, in which emission from different ion species dominates. We pick three different areas to study the high resolution spectra of X-rays from the warm-hot IGM: (a) a galaxy group; (b) a filament and (c) an underluminous region. By taking into account the background X-ray emission from AGNs and foreground emission from the Galaxy, we compute composite X-ray spectra of the selected regions. We briefly investigate angular clustering of the soft-X-ray emission, finding a strong signal. Most interestingly, the combination of high spectral resolution and angular information allows us to map the emission from the WHIM in 3 dimensions. We cross-correlate the positions of galaxies in the simulation with this redshift map of emission and detect the presence of six different ion species (Ne IX, Fe XVII, O VII, O VIII, N VII, C VI) in the large-scale structure traced by the galaxies. Finally we show how such emission can be detected and studied with future X-ray satellites, with particular attention to a proposed mission, the Missing Baryon Explorer, or MBE. We present simulated observations of the WHIM gas with MBE.

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