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Baryons in the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium
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Approximately 30-40% of all baryons in the present day universe reside in a warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM), with temperatures between 10^5<T<10^7 K. This is a generic prediction from six hydrodynamic simulations of currently favored structure formation models having a wide variety of numerical methods, input physics, volumes, and spatial resolutions. Most of these warm-hot baryons reside in diffuse large-scale structures with a median overdensity around 10-30, not in virialized objects such as galaxy groups or galactic halos. The evolution of the WHIM is primarily driven by shock heating from gravitational perturbations breaking on mildly nonlinear, non-equilibrium structures such as filaments. Supernova feedback energy and radiative cooling play lesser roles in its evolution. WHIM gas is consistent with observations of the 0.25 keV X-ray background without being significantly heated by non-gravitational processes because the emitting gas is very diffuse. Our results confirm and extend previous work by Cen & Ostriker and Dave' et al.
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