Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 2011
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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #218, #228.15; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We present preliminary results from our 70 ks Chandra/ACIS-S observation of the X-ray filament of thermal gas embedded in the Centaurus A Northern Middle Radio lobe (NML). Our previous XMM-Newton observations showed that this filament was composed of five extended knots connected with diffuse emission. We attributed this hot gas filament to the interaction of the currently active NML with cold gas that had been stripped from a dwarf galaxy and is probably the best example of a radio galaxy jet/cold cloud interaction. With the Chandra data, we find two important new results. First, we find that the temperature of the filament varies between 0.3 and 0.7 keV, and that the abundance is roughly half Solar. Second, there are no sharp discontinuities in the emission that would be indicative of shocks. The implications of thse results for our understanding of jet-cloud interactions will be discussed.
Birkinshaw Mark
Croston Judith
Forman William
Hardcastle Martin
Jones Christine
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