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来自Mpc尺度空间空区的X射线WHIM金属吸收体

An X-ray WHIM metal absorber from a Mpc-scale empty region of space

Luca Zappacosta, Fabrizio Nicastro, Yair Krongold, Roberto Maiolino

摘要:

本文报道了在一个大于500 ksChandra HRC-S/LETG X射线光栅谱中探测到耀变体H 2356-309的~44.8 nm吸收线。这条谱线可以被认为是热(log T = 5.1 K)星系际吸收体在z \approx 0.112处产生的CV-K α干涉吸收。这个特征在2.9σ水平上是显著的(考虑到独立红移试验的数量)。我们估计氢柱的等效密度为log N_H=19.05(Z/Zsun)^-1 cm^-2。不同于其他先前报道的FUV/X射线金属探测的温暖-热星系际介质(WHIM),这个CV吸收体位于一个区域与本地低星系密度,在~2.2兆秒差距从最近的星系在红移,因此是不太可能与扩展的星系晕。相反,我们尝试用一个介于其间的温热星系际介质细丝来识别这个吸收体,它可能渗透到一个大尺度的、30 Mpc延伸的星系结构中,这些星系的红移质心位于以H 2356-309的视线为中心的半径为7.5 Mpc的圆柱体内,与吸收体的红移勉强一致(在1.8σ水平上)。

英文摘要:

We report a detection of an absorption line at ~44.8 Å in a > 500 ks Chandra HRC-S/LETG X-ray grating spectrum of the blazar H 2356-309. This line can be identified as intervening CV-Kα absorption, at z\approx0.112, produced by a warm (log T = 5.1 K) intergalactic absorber. The feature is significant at a 2.9σ level (accounting for the number of independent redshift trials). We estimate an equivalent hydrogen column density of log N_H=19.05 (Z/Zsun)^-1 cm^-2. Unlike other previously reported FUV/X-ray metal detections of warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM), this CV absorber lies in a region with locally low galaxy density, at ~2.2 Mpc from the closest galaxy at that redshift, and therefore is unlikely to be associated with an extended galactic halo. We instead tentatively identify this absorber with an intervening Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium filament possibly permeating a large-scale, 30 Mpc extended, structure of galaxies whose redshift centroid, within a cylinder of 7.5 Mpc radius centered on the line of sight to H 2356-309, is marginally consistent (at a 1.8σ level) with the redshift of the absorber.

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