Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-06-18
X-ray Astronomy 2000, ASP Conference Proceeding Vol. 234. Edited by Riccardo Giacconi, Salvatore Serio, and Luigi Stella. San
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
15 pages, 10 figures (6 in color), 1 table; uses subfigure.sty, supertabular.sty, lscape.sty, color.sty; To be published in th
Scientific paper
We present the preliminary results of a deep (167 ks) ROSAT HRI observation of the cD galaxy NGC1399 in the Fornax cluster. We find, in agreement with previous observations, an extended (41 Kpc adopting a distance of 19 Mpc) gaseous halo with a luminosity of L_X=(4.41\pm 0.04)x10^{41} erg/s. The 5 arcsec resolution of the data allows us to detect a very complex and asymmetric structure of the halo with respect to the optical galaxy. Moreover the analysis of the radial structure reveals the presence of a multi-component profile not consistent with a simple King model over the whole 40 Kpc. We do not detect the presence of a central source and pose an upper limit to the luminosity of a possible active nucleus. Due to the length of the observation, comparable to that of a deep survey, we detect a large number of sources within the HRI FOV, in slight excess with respect to the estimates based on previous surveys. We study the flux distribution of the sources, their temporal behaviour and their spatial distribution with respect to the central galaxy.
Fabbiano Giuseppina
Kim Dae Wook
Paolillo Maruizio
Peres Giovanni
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