The mass of the missing baryons in the X-ray forest of the warm-hot intergalactic medium

Nature

Volumn 433, Issue 7025, 2005, Pages 495-498

  Nicastro, Fabrizio ^a   Mathur, Smita ^b   Elvis, Martin ^a   Drake, Jeremy ^a   Fang, Taotao ^c   Fruscione, Antonella ^a   Krongold, Yair ^a,d   Marshall, Herman ^e   Williams, Rik ^b   Zezas, Andreas ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); EARTH ATMOSPHERE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

BARYONS; COSMOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS; MASS-ENERGY DENSITY;

COSMIC RAY MEASUREMENT;

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BARYON; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; DENSITY; ENERGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 13444292214     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03245     Document Type: Article

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