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Probing the missing baryons with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from filaments — mentioned by CodeTheInternet

Tue, 10 Oct 2017 18:56:25 GMT

> https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.10378 Mmhmm, yes, I know some of these words!

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Probing the missing baryons with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from filaments — mentioned by iheartmemcache

Tue, 10 Oct 2017 05:52:47 GMT

Dang I read the first paragraph of the article and immediately went searching for the real papers since I didn't expect any media outlet to include them at the bottom, but here they are for anyone who made the same mistake I did! https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.05024 https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.10378 Not a cosmologist but here's my go at the de Graff paper. (Let's get this out of the way, the title is click-bait and the paper/researchers makes no such claims as to anything near 50%. New Scientist is trolling for hits with the word "half" or the journalist is fundamentally misunderstanding the…

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Probing the missing baryons with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from filaments — mentioned by Meegul

Tue, 10 Oct 2017 05:34:55 GMT

Like many of us, I'm no astrophysicist, but one of the linked papers [1] references that we've thus far been able to locate 10% of baryon content, with this discovery bringing this number up to 30%. Assuming I'm interpreting this correctly, this means that there's still around 70% of expected baryonic matter unaccounted for. 1: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.10378v1

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Probing the missing baryons with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from filaments — mentioned by nur0n

Mon, 09 Oct 2017 18:58:02 GMT

The best visualization I could find is on pg 14 of the pdf on this page: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.10378v1

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