An X-ray Study of Local Infrared Bright Galaxies
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2010-11-16 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract
We are carrying out detailed study of the X-ray and infrared (IR) properties of a sample of local (d < 70 Mpc) luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) using XMM-Newton and Spitzer (imaging and spectroscopy). The main goal is to study the extreme processes of star formation and/or active galactic nuclei (AGN) taking place in this cosmologically important class of galaxies. In this proceedings we present the preliminary results obtained from the analysis of the XMM-Newton X-ray images and the X-ray spectral modeling.
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@article{arxiv.1011.3435,
title = {An X-ray Study of Local Infrared Bright Galaxies},
author = {Miguel Pereira-Santaella and Almudena Alonso-Herrero and Elena Jiménez-Bailón and George H. Rieke and María Santos-Lleo and Martin Ward},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.3435},
year = {2010}
}
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5 pages, to appear in Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VI, Proceedings of the IX Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society held on September 13-17, 2010, in Madrid, Spain