{
  "id": "astro-ph/0311162",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2003-11-06T20:04:49.000Z",
  "updated": "2003-11-06T20:04:49.000Z",
  "title": "Chandra and FUSE view of the WHIM: the Local Group and beyond",
  "authors": [
    "F. Nicastro"
  ],
  "comment": "8 pages, 3 figures, proceedings of the IAU Symposium N. 216, \"Maps of the Cosmos\"",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "In this contribution, I review the current observational evidence for the existence of filaments of Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM). In particular, I first focus on the controversial issue of the identification of the $z\\sim 0$ highly ionized far-ultraviolet (i.e. OVI) and X-ray (i.e. OVII, OVIII and NeIX) absorbers with either a very tenuous and diffuse WHIM filament, or with much denser condensations of material at large distances in the Galactic halo. I then present our recent detection (confidence level $> 3\\sigma$) of the OVII WHIM at $z > 0$ and derive an estimate of the total number of baryons contained in this hard-to-detect phase of the IGM.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2003-11-06T20:04:49.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "local group",
      "fuse view",
      "warm-hot intergalactic medium",
      "current observational evidence",
      "diffuse whim filament"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 8,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 632634
    }
  }
}