ROSAT observations of two 'cooling flow' EMSS Galaxies
Abstract
We present ROSAT observations of two luminous L~10^44 erg/s EMSS galaxies, MS1019+5139 and MS1209+3917, previously classified as 'cooling flow' galaxies. MS1019+5139 does not appear to be spatially extended (<13 kpc) while its spectrum is well fit by a power law with Gamma = 1.73 +0.19-0.18; X-ray variability on a timescale of ~ years is also clearly detected. MS1209+3917 shows no evidence of spatial extension (<50 kpc) but it shows variability, while its spectrum can be fit with thermal bremsstrahlung emission (kT=1.8 +0.9-0.4 keV) or a power law model (Gamma = 2.50 +0.44-0.42, but with excess photoelectric absorption above the Galactic value). All the above argue against thermal emission from a group of galaxies or a galaxy but in favour of an AGN (possibly BL Lac) interpretation. We conclude that no 'normal' galaxies with high X-ray luminosities have yet been detected in the EMSS survey that could be significant contributors to the X-ray background.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9703018,
title = {ROSAT observations of two 'cooling flow' EMSS Galaxies},
author = {A. J. Blair and I. Georgantopoulos and G. C. Stewart},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9703018},
year = {2015}
}
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6 pages, LaTeX, 6 postscript figures included, to appear in MNRAS