Towards the statistical detection of the warm-hot intergalactic medium in intercluster filaments of the cosmic web
(2015)
Journal Article
Tejos, N., Prochaska, J., Crighton, N., Morris, S., Werk, J., Theuns, T., …Finn, C. (2016). Towards the statistical detection of the warm-hot intergalactic medium in intercluster filaments of the cosmic web. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(3), 2662-2697. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2376
Modern analyses of structure formation predict a universe tangled in a ‘cosmic web’ of dark matter and diffuse baryons. These theories further predict that at low z, a significant fraction of the baryons will be shock-heated to T ∼ 105–107 K yielding... Read More about Towards the statistical detection of the warm-hot intergalactic medium in intercluster filaments of the cosmic web.