Evidence for environmental effects on early-type galaxy X-ray halos

Details Evidence for environmental effects on early-type galaxy X-ray halos Evidence for environmental effects on early-type galaxy X-ray halos

Feb 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991apj...367..476w&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 367, Feb. 1, 1991, p. 476-489.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

62

Elliptical Galaxies, Galactic Structure, Halos, X Ray Astronomy, Color, Luminosity, Metallicity, Thermal Emission, Virgo Galactic Cluster

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Possible causes for the large dispersion in the X-ray luminosities (Lx) of early-type galaxies are discussed. It is shown that early-type galaxies with relatively low values of Lx for a given optical luminosity L(B) have about 50 percent more neighbors than galaxies with relatively high Lx, suggesting that low-Lx galaxies tend to be in denser environments. It is concluded that the large dispersion in X-ray luminosity, for a given L(B) might be caused either by ram-pressure stripping of the gaseous halos or by mergers.

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