THE GAS DYNAMICS OF NGC 4472 REVEALED BY XMM-NEWTON

THE GAS DYNAMICS OF NGC 4472 REVEALED BY XMM-NEWTON

We present results from a 100 ks XMM-Newton observation of the hot gas in the Virgo cluster elliptical galaxy NGC 4472. We find a surface brightness discontinuity ~21 kpc north of the nucleus, consistent with being a contact discontinuity between two moving fluids. We also detect a >60 kpc long r...

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Main Authors: Kraft, Ralph P. (Author), Forman, W. R. (Author), Jones, C. (Author), Nulsen, P. E. J. (Author), Hardcastle, M. J. (Author), Raychaudhury, S. (Author), Sivakoff, G. R. (Author), Sarazin, C. L. (Author), Evans, Daniel A. (Contributor)
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing, 2015-02-27T14:09:03Z.
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