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Multiphase filamentary nebulae are ubiquitous in the brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) of cool-core clusters, providing insight into baryon cycling and the feeding and feedback of supermassive black holes. However, BCGs account for less…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-27 Ryan Eskenasy , Valeria Olivares , Yuanyuan Su

The knowledge of the X-ray properties of the hot gas halos of early-type galaxies has significantly advanced in the past years, for large and homogeneously investigated samples. We compare these results with the X-ray properties of an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-06 Silvia Pellegrini , Luca Ciotti , Zhaoming Gan , Dong-Woo Kim , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

The High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (HETGS) onboard the Chandra X-ray Observatory has so far produced a large number of high resolution X-ray spectra with unprecedented spectroscopic details. Spectra from outflows in galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Norbert S. Schulz

We have analyzed Chandra archival observations of the Antennae galaxies to study the distribution and physical properties of its hot interstellar gas. Eleven distinct diffuse X-ray emission regions are selected according to their underlying…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. M. Metz , R. L. Cooper , M. A. Guerrero , Y. -H. Chu , C. -H. R. Chen , R. A. Gruendl

The properties of the dust in the cold and hot gas phases of early-type galaxies (ETGs) are key to understand ETG evolution. We thus conducted a systematic study of the dust in a large sample of local ETGs, focusing on relations between the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-06 T. Kokusho , H. Kaneda , M. Bureau , T. Suzuki , K. Murata , A. Kondo , M. Yamagishi , T. Tsuchikawa , T. Furuta

Recently, the temperature T and luminosity L_X of the hot gas halos of early type galaxies have been derived with unprecedented accuracy from Chandra data, for 30 galaxies covering a wider range of galactic luminosity (and central velocity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 S. Pellegrini

The morphological, spectroscopic and kinematical properties of the warm interstellar medium (wim) in early-type galaxies (ETGs) hold key observational constraints to nuclear activity and the buildup history of these massive, quiescent…

The Chandra X-ray Observatory grating spectrometers allow study of stellar spectra at resolutions on the order of 1000. Prior x-ray observatories' low resolution data have shown that nearly all classes of stars emit x-rays. Chandra reveals…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David P. Huenemoerder

Using the data products of the Chandra Galaxy Atlas (Kim et al. 2019a), we have investigated the radial profiles of the hot gas temperature in 60 early type galaxies. Considering the characteristic temperature and radius of the peak, dip,…

We have performed uniform analysis of a sample of 54 nearby, early-type galaxies observed with \emph{Chandra}. In this work we present the spectral results for both the diffuse Interstellar Medium, ISM, and low-mass X-ray binaries, LMXBs.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-06 Alex E Athey

In high-resolution X-ray observations of the hot plasma in clusters of galaxies significant structures caused by AGN feedback, mergers, and turbulence can be detected. Many clusters have been observed by Chandra in great depth and at high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 F. Hofmann , J. S. Sanders , K. Nandra , N. Clerc , M. Gaspari

[ABRIDGED] We aim to provide a holistic view on the typical size and kinematic evolution of massive early-type galaxies (ETGs), that encompasses their high-$z$ star-forming progenitors, their high-$z$ quiescent counterparts, and their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-18 A. Lapi , L. Pantoni , L. Zanisi , J. Shi , C. Mancuso , M. Massardi , F. Shankar , A. Bressan , L. Danese

A hot plasma is the dominant phase of the interstellar medium of early-type galaxies. Its origin can reside in stellar mass losses, residual gas from the formation epoch, and accretion from outside of the galaxies. Its evolution is linked…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-25 S. Pellegrini , Z. Gan , J. P. Ostriker , L. Ciotti

We have re-examined the two X-ray scaling relations of early-type galaxies (ETGs), Lx - LK and Lx - T, using 61 ATLAS3D E and S0 galaxies observed with Chandra. The larger sample allows us to investigate the effect of structural and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-21 Dong-Woo Kim , Giuseppina Fabbiano

We analyze $Chandra$ observations of the hot atmospheres of 40 early spiral and elliptical galaxies. Using new temperature, density, cooling time, and mass profiles, we explore relationships between their hot atmospheres and cold molecular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Iu. V. Babyk , B. R. McNamara , P. D. Tamhane , P. E. J. Nulsen , H. R. Russell , A. C. Edge

Local early-type galaxies (ETGs) are mostly populated by old stars, with little or no recent star formation activity. For this reason, they have historically been believed to be essentially devoid of cold gas, that is the fuel for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-20 I. Ruffa , T. A. Davis

A recent determination of the relationships between the X-ray luminosity of the ISM (Lx) and the stellar and total mass, for a sample of nearby early-type galaxies (ETGs), is used to investigate the origin of the hot gas, via a comparison…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-11 S. Pellegrini , L. Ciotti , A. Negri , J. P. Ostriker

The content and distribution of cool interstellar medium (ISM, <30K) can indicate the evolutionary mechanisms that transform late type to early type galaxies (ETGs). To investigate this, ALMA observations of 12CO[2-1] line emission were…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-26 David H. W. Glass , Anne E. Sansom , Timothy A. Davis , Cristina C. Popescu

We present a study of the cold gas contents of the Atlas3D early-type galaxies, in the context of their optical colours, near-UV colours, and H\beta\ absorption line strengths. Early-type (elliptical and lenticular) galaxies are not as…

Isolated early-type galaxies (iETGs) are evolving in unusually poor environments for this morphological family, which is typical of cluster inhabitants. We investigate the mechanisms driving the evolution of these galaxies. Several studies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-19 R. Rampazzo , A. Omizzolo , M. Uslenghi , J. Roman , P. Mazzei , L. Verdes-Montenegro , A. Marino , M. G. Jones