Nagoya University: Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe (KMI)

Nagoya University

Japanese


KMI Colloquium
"Dark baryons in the Universe and DIOS project"
Takaya Ohashi
(Tokyo Metropolitan University)
January 28, 2015 (Wed) 17:00-
KMI Science Symposia (ES635)
Abstract:

More than half of baryons in the local universe remain unidentified and are expected to distribute along large-scale filaments in the form of warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM). The detection and characterization of WHIM will bring us rich information about the structure formation and chemical/thermal evolution of the universe. We propose to survery WHIM with a small satellite DIOS (Diffuse Intergalactic Oxygen Surveyor), aiming for launch around 2020. DIOS will map the WHIM structure with high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy of redshifted emission lines from OVII and OVIII ions. Superior energy resolution of microcalorimeters combined with a very wide field of view will also enable us to study gas dynamics of cosmic plasmas over a wide range of spatial scales.

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