A Galaxy X-ray Fundamental Plane?

Details A Galaxy X-ray Fundamental Plane? A Galaxy X-ray Fundamental Plane?

1999-06-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9906036v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 2 figures; submitted to ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/312290

We suggest the radii and luminosities of the X-ray emitting halos of elliptical galaxies define a fundamental plane with the star velocity dispersions, as for the corresponding optical observables. Since the X-ray emitting material usually is at larger radius than the stars this can be interpreted as additional evidence for a relation between the space distributions of stellar and dark mass, in analogy to the Tully-Fisher relation and flat rotation curves for spiral galaxies. The picture is complicated, however, by ellipticals with relatively low X-ray luminosities that appear to have modest dark halos, quite unlike the standard picture for spirals.

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