X-Ray Haloes of Massive Disc Galaxies: Testing Galaxy Formation

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Sep 2002

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Chandra Proposal ID #04600334

Physics

Chandra Proposal Id #04600334

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The luminosity of X-ray haloes around disc galaxies is a crucial quantity for constraining theories for the assembly of disc galaxies. We have compiled a unique physically realistic sample of hydrodynamical simulations of disc galaxy formation and evolution, predicting present day X-ray halo luminosities and the spatial distribution of X-ray emission. Here we propose to test these novel models by obtaining deep Chandra pointings of two massive, nearby, edge-on disc galaxies. A detection of X-ray haloes will, for the first time, directly prove that disc formation is on-going today. Alternatively, a non-detection will require a major re-thinking of the currently accepted scenario for assembling disc galaxies.

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