arXivDaily arXiv每日学术速递 周一至周五更新
arXiv 0803.2525astro-ph
收藏

在连接星系团Abell 222和Abell 223的灯丝中探测到热气体

Detection of hot gas in the filament connecting the clusters of galaxies Abell 222 and Abell 223

N. Werner, A. Finoguenov, J. S. Kaastra, A. Simionescu, J. P. Dietrich, J. Vink, H. Boehringer

摘要:

局域宇宙中大约有一半的重子是不可见的,根据模拟,它们的主要部分以低密度气体的形式存在于连接星系团的细丝中,温度范围为10^5<T<10^7 K。这种温热的星系际介质的存在从未在X射线观测中得到明确的证明。我们通过观察连接大质量星系团A222和A223(z=0.21)的一条细丝来探测大尺度结构中预期的低气体密度,该细丝大约沿着我们的视线具有有利的取向。这种细丝以前已经使用弱透镜数据检测到,并作为颜色选择星系的过密度。本文分析了用XMM-牛顿法对A222/223进行深度观测(144 k s)所得的X射线图象和能谱。我们在这里提出的观测证据的X射线发射的灯丝连接两个集群。我们在小波分解的软带(0.5-2.0 keV)X射线图像中检测到细丝,具有5 sigma显著性。在发射下降到3 sigma显著性之后,观察到的细丝约为1.2 Mpc宽。从光谱中确定的与暗丝相关的气体温度为kT=0.91 \pm 0.25 keV,其发射量度对应的重子密度为(3.4 \pm 1.3)× 10 ^-5(1/15 Mpc)^-1/2 cm^-3,其中l是暗丝沿视线的长度。这个密度对应于大约150的重子过密度。暗条中气体的性质与对暖-热星系际介质的致密和最热部分的模拟结果一致。

英文摘要:

About half of the baryons in the local Universe are invisible and - according to simulations - their dominant fraction resides in filaments connecting clusters of galaxies in the form of low density gas with temperatures in the range of 10^5<T<10^7 K. The existence of this warm-hot intergalactic medium was never unambiguously proven observationally in X-rays. We probe the low gas densities expected in the large scale structure filaments by observing a filament connecting the massive clusters of galaxies A 222 and A 223 (z=0.21) which has a favorable orientation approximately along our line of sight. This filament has been previously detected using weak lensing data and as an over-density of colour selected galaxies. We analyse X-ray images and spectra obtained in a deep observation (144 ks) of A 222/223 with XMM-Newton. We present here observational evidence of the X-ray emission from the filament connecting the two clusters. We detect the filament in the wavelet decomposed soft band (0.5-2.0 keV) X-ray image with a 5 sigma significance. Following the emission down to 3 sigma significance, the observed filament is approximately 1.2 Mpc wide. The temperature of the gas associated with the filament determined from the spectra is kT=0.91\pm0.25 keV and its emission measure corresponds to a baryon density of (3.4\pm1.3)x10^-5 (l/15Mpc)^-1/2 cm^-3, where l is the length of the filament along the line of sight. This density corresponds to a baryon over-density of approximately 150. The properties of the gas in the filament are consistent with the results of simulations for the densest and hottest parts of the warm-hot intergalactic medium.

机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来,可能存在错误,请以论文正文为准。

↑