Chandra observations of the Antennae galaxies (NGC 4038/39)

Details Chandra observations of the Antennae galaxies (NGC 4038/39) Chandra observations of the Antennae galaxies (NGC 4038/39)

Dec 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000aas...197.7901f&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 197th AAS Meeting, #79.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.1532

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We report the results of a deep Chandra ACIS pointing at the merging system NGC 4038/39. We detect an extraordinarily luminous population of X-ray sources, with luminosity well above that of XRBs in M31 and the Milky Way. If these sources are unbeamed XRBs, our observations may point to 10-100 Msun black hole counterparts. We detect an X-ray bright hot ISM, with features ranging from bright superbubbles associated with the actively star-forming knots, to a large-scale outflow.

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