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An estimate of the electron density in filaments of galaxies at z∼ 0.1.
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . Aug2011, Vol. 415 Issue 2, p1961-1966. 6p. 1 Color Photograph, 1 Black and White Photograph, 2 Charts, 1 Graph. - Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- BSTRACT Most of the baryons in the Universe are thought to be contained within filaments of galaxies, but as yet, no single study has published the observed properties of a large sample of known filaments to determine typical physical characteristics such as temperature and electron density. This paper presents a comprehensive large-scale search conducted for X-ray emission from a population of 41 bona fide filaments of galaxies to determine their X-ray flux and electron density. The sample is generated from the filament catalogue of Pimbblet et al., which is in turn sourced from the two-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS). Since the filaments are expected to be very faint and of very low density, we used stacked ROSAT All-Sky Survey data. We detect a net surface brightness from our sample of filaments of (1.6 ± 0.1) × 10−14 erg cm−2 s−1 arcmin−2 in the 0.9-1.3 keV energy band for 1-keV plasma, which implies an electron density of ne= (4.7 ± 0.2) × 10−4 h1/2100 cm−3. Finally, we examine if a filament's membership to a supercluster leads to an enhanced electron density as reported by Kull & Böhringer. We suggest it remains unclear if supercluster membership causes such an enhancement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00358711
- Volume :
- 415
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 63069289
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18847.x