The Impending Destruction of NGC1427A

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Sep 2002

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Chandra Proposal ID #04600794

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Chandra Proposal Id #04600794

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The Fornax cluster member NGC 1427A provides a spectacular example of a hot ICM and cluster potential operating on a gas-rich irregular galaxy. On its first passage through the cluster core, NGC 1427A is being disrupted by the influence of the hot ICM, its own vigorous star formation, and the cluster tidal field. We propose joint Chandra/HST imaging of this X-ray source to explore the details of the impending galaxy destruction. Such events are common in the lives of clusters, and help build the intracluster components. NGC 1427A provides a snapshot of the progenitor ingredients about 1 Gyr prior to becoming true intracluster material, and a chance to study the forces which shred galaxies and build cluster gas and stellar components over a Hubble time.

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