Clumpy metal concentrations in elliptical galaxies NGC 4374 and NGC 4636
Clumpy metal concentrations in elliptical galaxies NGC 4374 and NGC 4636
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椭圆星系 NGC 4374 和 NGC 4636 中的块状金属浓度
DOI:
10.1088/1674-4527/10/3/003
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发表时间:
2010-03
影响因子:
1.8
通讯作者:
An, Tao
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作者:
Xu, Hai-Guang;Gu, Jun-Hua;Gu, Li-Yi;Zhang, Zhong-Li;Wang, Yu;An, Tao
We present a high spatial resolution study of metal distributions in the nearby, gas-rich elliptical galaxies NGC 4374 and NGC 4636 with the Chandra ACIS archive data. We define the hardness ratio HRFeL as the ratio of the emission in 0.65–1.4 keV to that in 0.3–0.6 keV and 1.4–3.5 keV (after the magnesium and silicon lines are excluded), and HRcont as the ratio of the emission in 1.4–3.5 keV to that in 0.3–0.6 keV, so that the HRFeL and HRcont maps can be used to trace the iron abundance and gas temperature distributions, respectively. By applying the à Trous wavelet algorithm to the obtained emission hardness ratio maps, we reveal that the HRFeL distributions are highly irregular, exhibiting strong spatial variations on 0.1–1 Re scales, which do not follow the HRcont distributions. Since the effect of temperature variation is small, we conclude that most of the high-HRFeL regions are very likely to possess higher abundances than the ambient gas. We also find that these high-HRFeL substructures are not associated with either the LMXB or globular cluster populations, thus their origins should be related to AGN activity or mergers.
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