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低密度环境中早型星系的暗晕:NGC 57,NGC 7796和IC 1531的XMM-牛顿和钱德拉观测

The dark haloes of early-type galaxies in low-density environments: XMM-Newton and Chandra observations of NGC 57, NGC 7796 and IC 1531

E. O'Sullivan, A. J. R. Sanderson, T. J. Ponman

摘要:

本文分析了Chandra和XMM-Newton对三个早型星系NGC 57、NGC 7796和IC 1531的观测结果。所有这三个都是在非常低密度的环境中发现的,并且似乎没有类似大小的邻居。NGC 57有kT~0.9 keV的晕,太阳金属量气体,而NGC 7796和IC 1531都有~0.55 keV,0.5-0.6 Zsol晕。IC 1531有一个相对致密的晕,我们认为可能是由于活动星系核加热的作用,气体已经从系统中被移除。对于NGC 57和NGC 7796,我们估计的质量,熵和冷却时间的配置文件,并发现NGC 57有一个相当大的暗晕的质光比为44.7(4.0,-8.5)Msol/Lsol(1西格玛不确定性)在4.75 Re。这与NGC 4555的质光比非常相似,证实了孤立的椭圆星系可以拥有相当大的暗物质晕。我们发现NGC 7796的质光比明显较低,在5 Re时为10.6(+2.5,-2.3)Msol/Lsol,并讨论了NGC 7796拥有星系风的可能性,导致我们低估了它的质量。

英文摘要:

We present analysis of Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of three early-type galaxies, NGC 57, NGC 7796 and IC 1531. All three are found in very low density environments, and appear to have no neighbours of comparable size. NGC 57 has a halo of kT~0.9 keV, solar metallicity gas, while NGC 7796 and IC 1531 both have ~0.55 keV, 0.5-0.6 Zsol haloes. IC 1531 has a relatively compact halo, and we consider it likely that gas has been removed from the system by the effects of AGN heating. For NGC 57 and NGC 7796 we estimate mass, entropy and cooling time profiles and find that NGC 57 has a fairly massive dark halo with a mass-to-light ratio of 44.7 (4.0,-8.5) Msol/Lsol (1 sigma uncertainties) at 4.75 Re. This is very similar to the mass-to-light ratio found for NGC 4555 and confirms that isolated ellipticals can possess sizable dark matter haloes. We find a significantly lower mass-to-light ratio for NGC 7796, 10.6 (+2.5,-2.3) Msol/Lsol at 5 Re, and discuss the possibility that NGC 7796 hosts a galactic wind, causing us to underestimate its mass.

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