NGC 741 - Mergers and AGN Feedback on a Galaxy-group Scale

© 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Low-mass galaxy cluster systems and groups will play an essential role in upcoming cosmological studies, such as those to be carried out with eROSITA. Though the effects of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and merging processes are of spec...

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Main Authors: Schellenberger, G., Vrtilek, J., David, L., O'Sullivan, E., Giacintucci, S., Johnston-Hollitt, Melanie, Duchesne, Stefan, Raychaudhury, S.
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Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/71398
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author Schellenberger, G.
Vrtilek, J.
David, L.
O'Sullivan, E.
Giacintucci, S.
Johnston-Hollitt, Melanie
Duchesne, Stefan
Raychaudhury, S.
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Vrtilek, J.
David, L.
O'Sullivan, E.
Giacintucci, S.
Johnston-Hollitt, Melanie
Duchesne, Stefan
Raychaudhury, S.
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description © 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Low-mass galaxy cluster systems and groups will play an essential role in upcoming cosmological studies, such as those to be carried out with eROSITA. Though the effects of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and merging processes are of special importance to quantify biases like selection effects or deviations from hydrostatic equilibrium, they are poorly understood on the galaxy-group scale. We present an analysis of recent deep Chandra and XMM-Newton integrations of NGC 741 that provides an excellent example of a group with multiple concurrent phenomena: both an old central radio galaxy and a spectacular infalling head-tail source, strongly bent jets, a 100-kpc radio trail, intriguing narrow X-ray filaments, and gas-sloshing features. Supported principally by X-ray and radio continuum data, we address the merging history of the group, the nature of the X-ray filaments, the extent of gas-stripping from NGC 742, the character of cavities in the group, and the roles of the central AGN and infalling galaxy in heating the intra-group medium.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-713982018-12-13T09:32:58Z NGC 741 - Mergers and AGN Feedback on a Galaxy-group Scale Schellenberger, G. Vrtilek, J. David, L. O'Sullivan, E. Giacintucci, S. Johnston-Hollitt, Melanie Duchesne, Stefan Raychaudhury, S. © 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Low-mass galaxy cluster systems and groups will play an essential role in upcoming cosmological studies, such as those to be carried out with eROSITA. Though the effects of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and merging processes are of special importance to quantify biases like selection effects or deviations from hydrostatic equilibrium, they are poorly understood on the galaxy-group scale. We present an analysis of recent deep Chandra and XMM-Newton integrations of NGC 741 that provides an excellent example of a group with multiple concurrent phenomena: both an old central radio galaxy and a spectacular infalling head-tail source, strongly bent jets, a 100-kpc radio trail, intriguing narrow X-ray filaments, and gas-sloshing features. Supported principally by X-ray and radio continuum data, we address the merging history of the group, the nature of the X-ray filaments, the extent of gas-stripping from NGC 742, the character of cavities in the group, and the roles of the central AGN and infalling galaxy in heating the intra-group medium. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/71398 10.3847/1538-4357/aa7f2e Institute of Physics Publishing restricted
spellingShingle Schellenberger, G.
Vrtilek, J.
David, L.
O'Sullivan, E.
Giacintucci, S.
Johnston-Hollitt, Melanie
Duchesne, Stefan
Raychaudhury, S.
NGC 741 - Mergers and AGN Feedback on a Galaxy-group Scale
title NGC 741 - Mergers and AGN Feedback on a Galaxy-group Scale
title_full NGC 741 - Mergers and AGN Feedback on a Galaxy-group Scale
title_fullStr NGC 741 - Mergers and AGN Feedback on a Galaxy-group Scale
title_full_unstemmed NGC 741 - Mergers and AGN Feedback on a Galaxy-group Scale
title_short NGC 741 - Mergers and AGN Feedback on a Galaxy-group Scale
title_sort ngc 741 - mergers and agn feedback on a galaxy-group scale
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/71398