Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Nov 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003a%26a...411...41t&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.411, p.41-53 (2003)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Galaxies: Active, Galaxies: Starburst, Galaxies: Ism, Galaxies: Individual: Ngc 2903, X-Rays: Galaxies
Scientific paper
In this paper we present ROSAT PSPC and HRI observations of the ``hot-spot'' galaxy NGC 2903. This isolated system strikingly reveals a soft extended X-ray feature reaching in north-west direction up to a projected distance of 5.2 kpc from the center into the halo. The residual X-ray emission in the disk reveals the same extension as the Hα disk. No eastern counterpart of the western X-ray halo emission has been detected. The luminosity of the extraplanar X-ray gas is several 1038 erg s-1, comparable to X-ray halos in other starburst galaxies. It has a plasma temperature of about 0.2 keV. The estimated star formation rate derived from X-rays and Hα results in 1-2 M_sun yr-1. Since galactic superwinds, giant kpc-scale galactic outflows, seem to be a common phenomenon observed in a number of edge-on galaxies, especially in the X-ray regime, and are produced by excess star-formation activity, the existence of hot halo gas as found in NGC 2903 can be attributed to events such as central starbursts. That such a starburst has taken place in NGC 2903 must be proven. The detection of hot gas above galaxy disks also with intermediate inclination, however, encounters the difficulty of discriminating between that contribution from disk and active nuclear region.
Hensler Gerhard
Junkes Norbert
Tschöke Daniel
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