X-RAYING THE INTERGALACTIC O VI ABSORBERS

X-RAYING THE INTERGALACTIC O VI ABSORBERS

The observed intergalactic O vi absorbers at z > 0 have been regarded as a significant reservoir of the “missing baryons.” However, to fully understand how these absorbers contribute to the baryon inventory, it is crucial to determine whether the systems are collisionally ionized or photoionize...

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Main Authors: Yao, Y., Tripp, T. M., Wang, Q. D., Danforth, Charles W., Canizares, Claude R., Shull, J. M., Song, L., Marshall, Herman
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Astronomical Society 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51704
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5769-8441

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51704
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5769-8441

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