The gaseous atmosphere of M 87 seen with XMM-Newton

2006/10/31 by A. Simionescu, H. Böhringer, M. Brüggen +1 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics #Atmosphere (unit) #Atmospheric sciences #Environmental science #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Mechanics #Meteorology #Physics #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20066650

12 pages, 13 figures, A&A in press; minor modifications of text and layout, added one reference to RGS data analysis results

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Abstract

Aims.M 87 is a key object whose study can reveal the complex phenomena in cooling cores. We use a deep XMM-Newton observation of M 87 to produce detailed temperature, pressure and entropy maps in order to analyze the physical processes of cooling cores and of their heating mechanisms.

Citations

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