Where Are the Baryons? II. Feedback Effects
Where Are the Baryons? II. Feedback Effects
Numerical simulations of the intergalactic medium have shown that at the present epoch, a significant fraction (40%-50%) of the baryonic component should be found in the (T ~ 106 K) warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM)—with several recent observational lines of evidence indicating the validity of the prediction. We here recompute the …