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- Title
First detection of stacked X-ray emission from cosmic web filaments.
- Authors
Tanimura, H.; Aghanim, N.; Kolodzig, A.; Douspis, M.; Malavasi, N.
- Abstract
We report the first statistical detection of X-ray emission from cosmic web filaments in ROSAT data. We selected 15 165 filaments at 0.2 < z < 0.6 ranging from 30 Mpc to 100 Mpc in length, identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey survey. We stacked the X-ray count-rate maps from ROSAT around the filaments, excluding resolved galaxy groups and clusters above the mass of ∼3 × 1013 M⊙ as well as the detected X-ray point sources from the ROSAT, Chandra, and XMM-Newton observations. The stacked signal results in the detection of the X-ray emission from the cosmic filaments at a significance of 4.2σ in the energy band of 0.56−1.21 keV. The signal is interpreted, assuming the Astrophysical Plasma Emission Code model, as an emission from the hot gas in the filament-core regions with an average gas temperature of 0.9−0.6+1.0 0. 9 − 0.6 + 1.0 $ 0.9^{+1.0}_{-0.6} $ keV and a gas overdensity of δ ∼ 30 at the center of the filaments. Furthermore, we show that stacking the SRG/eROSITA data for ∼2000 filaments only would lead to a ≳5σ detection of their X-ray signal, even with an average gas temperature as low as ∼0.3 keV.
- Subjects
SLOAN Digital Sky Survey; X-ray detection; FIBERS; PLASMA astrophysics; GALAXY clusters; SIGNAL detection; ASTRONOMICAL surveys
- Publication
Astronomy & Astrophysics / Astronomie et Astrophysique, 2020, Vol 643, p1
- ISSN
0004-6361
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1051/0004-6361/202038521