Diffuse X-Ray-emitting Gas in Major Mergers

Using archived data from the Chandra X-ray telescope, we have extracted the diffuse X-ray emission from 49 equal-mass interacting/merging galaxy pairs in a merger sequence, from widely separated pairs to merger remnants. After the removal of contributions from unresolved point sources, we compared t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Smith, B., Campbell, K., Struck, C., Soria, Roberto, Swartz, D., Magno, M., Dunn, B., Giroux, M.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/66900