Metal-line emission from the warm-hot intergalactic medium - II. Ultraviolet
Approximately half the baryons in the local Universe are thought to reside in the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM), i.e. diffuse gas with temperatures in the range 105 < T < 107K. Emission lines from metals in the UV band are excellent tracers of the cooler fraction of this gas, with T ~103photons-1cm-2sr-1) comes from relatively dense (ρ >
Bertone, Serena et al.
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