THE GAS DYNAMICS OF NGC 4472 REVEALED BY XMM-NEWTON

THE GAS DYNAMICS OF NGC 4472 REVEALED BY XMM-NEWTON

We present results from a 100 ks XMM-Newton observation of the hot gas in the Virgo cluster elliptical galaxy NGC 4472. We find a surface brightness discontinuity ~21 kpc north of the nucleus, consistent with being a contact discontinuity between two moving fluids. We also detect a >60 kpc long r...

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Main Authors: Kraft, Ralph P., Forman, W. R., Jones, C., Nulsen, P. E. J., Hardcastle, M. J., Raychaudhury, S., Sivakoff, G. R., Sarazin, C. L., Evans, Daniel A.
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95709

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