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用辐射研究温热星系际介质

Studying the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium in Emission

Yoh Takei, Eugenio Ursino, Enzo Branchini, Takaya Ohashi, Hajime Kawahara, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Luigi Piro, Alessandra Corsi, Lorenzo Amati, Jan-Willem den Herder,… 展开作者

Yoh Takei, Eugenio Ursino, Enzo Branchini, Takaya Ohashi, Hajime Kawahara, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Luigi Piro, Alessandra Corsi, Lorenzo Amati, Jan-Willem den Herder, Massimiliano Galeazzi, Jelle Kaastra, Lauro Moscardini, Fabrizio Nicastro, Frits Paerels, Mauro Roncarelli, Matteo Viel

摘要:

我们评估的可能性,以检测温暖的热星系际介质(WHIM)的发射和表征其物理条件和空间分布,通过空间分辨X射线光谱,在最近提出的DIOS,EDGE,Xenia和ORIGIN任务的框架,所有这些都配备了基于微量热计的探测器。为了这个目的,我们分析了一大套模拟发射光谱,从宇宙流体动力学模拟提取。这些模拟的X射线光谱搜索的排放功能,显示两个OVII K阿尔法三重态和OVIII Ly阿尔法线,这构成了一个典型的签名温暖的热气体。我们的分析表明,1毫秒的长曝光和2.5 eV的能量分辨率将使我们能够检测到每度^2约400个这样的特征,其显著性大于5 sigma,并揭示出这些发射系统通常与高于平均值约100的密度相关。温度可以从线比率估计,精度约为20%。来自其他谱线的污染、连续谱水平的变化和能量分辨率的退化的综合影响降低了这些估计。然而,在能量分辨率为7 eV的情况下,考虑到所有这些效应,我们仍然可以预期每度^[2]大约有160个探测器。这些线系统足以追踪线发射气体的空间分布,这构成了独立于线统计的额外信息,以约束鲜为人知的宇宙化学富集历史和恒星反馈过程。

英文摘要:

We assess the possibility to detect the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) in emission and to characterize its physical conditions and spatial distribution through spatially resolved X-ray spectroscopy, in the framework of the recently proposed DIOS, EDGE, Xenia, and ORIGIN missions, all of which are equipped with microcalorimeter-based detectors. For this purpose we analyze a large set of mock emission spectra, extracted from a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. These mock X-ray spectra are searched for emission features showing both the OVII K alpha triplet and OVIII Ly alpha line, which constitute a typical signature of the warm hot gas. Our analysis shows that 1 Ms long exposures and energy resolution of 2.5 eV will allow us to detect about 400 such features per deg^2 with a significance >5 sigma and reveals that these emission systems are typically associated with density ~100 above the mean. The temperature can be estimated from the line ratio with a precision of ~20%. The combined effect of contamination from other lines, variation in the level of the continuum, and degradation of the energy resolution reduces these estimates. Yet, with an energy resolution of 7 eV and all these effects taken into account, one still expects about 160 detections per deg^2. These line systems are sufficient to trace the spatial distribution of the line-emitting gas, which constitute an additional information, independent from line statistics, to constrain the poorly known cosmic chemical enrichment history and the stellar feedback processes.

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