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探测宇宙中失踪的热重子的策略

Strategies for Detecting the Missing Hot Baryons in the Universe

Joel N. Bregman, Guilherme Camargo Alves, Matthew J. Miller, Edmund Hodges-Kluck

摘要:

在本机宇宙中,大约有30-50%的重子无法解释,它们可能处于热相,温度为10^5.5-10^8 K。通过软X射线波段的O VII和O VIII共振吸收和发射线,在银河系周围探测到一个热晕(10^6.3 K)。目前的仪器还不够灵敏,无法探测到其他星系和星系群周围吸收的这种气体,这两个最有可能的位置。我们发现,这种热气体的共振线吸收可以用现有技术检测到,收集面积超过约300平方厘米,分辨率R > 2000。对于一些概念上的X射线望远镜配置,可以构建为探索者或探测器的任务,我们计算的微分O VII和O VIII的吸收器作为通过红移空间,dN/dz的等效宽度的函数。个别外部星系的热晕产生的吸收,应该可以探测到它们的维里半径。对于银河系,在进行光学深度校正后,可以确定密度、温度和金属丰度的径向分布。光谱观测可以确定热气晕的旋转。

英文摘要:

About 30-50% of the baryons in the local Universe are unaccounted for and are likely in a hot phase, 10^5.5-10^8 K. A hot halo (10^6.3 K) is detected around the Milky Way through the O VII and O VIII resonance absorption and emission lines in the soft X-ray band. Current instruments are not sensitive enough to detect this gas in absorption around other galaxies and galaxy groups, the two most likely sites. We show that resonant line absorption by this hot gas can be detected with current technology, with a collecting area exceeding about 300 cm^2 and a resolution R > 2000. For a few notional X-ray telescope configurations that could be constructed as Explorer or Probe missions, we calculate the differential number of O VII and O VIII absorbers as a function of equivalent width through redshift space, dN/dz. The hot halos of individual external galaxies produce absorption that should be detectable out to about their virial radii. For the Milky Way, one can determine the radial distribution of density, temperature, and metallicity, after making optical depth corrections. Spectroscopic observations can determine the rotation of a hot gaseous halo.

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