The X-ray properties of the merging galaxy pair NGC 4038/9 - the Antennae

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1995-06-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9506047v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages plus 9 figures, uuencoded encapsulated postscript file. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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We report the results of an X-ray spectral imaging observation of the Antennae with the ROSAT PSPC. 55% of the soft X-ray flux from the system is resolved into discrete sources, including components identified with the galactic nuclei and large HII regions, whilst the remainder appears to be predominantly genuinely diffuse emission from gas at a temperature ~4x10^6 K. The morphology of the emission is unusual, combining a halo which envelopes the galactic discs, with what appears to be a distorted, but well-collimated bipolar outflow. We derive physical parameters for the hot gas in both diffuse components, which are of some interest, given that the Antennae probably represents an elliptical galaxy in the making.

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